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Did You Know? 4 Common Myths About Food Insecurity

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May 10, 2023

Meet the MFB Family: Flo Vickers

For more than 12 years, Flora “Flo” Vickers was the Salisbury Superwoman to so many neighbors on the Eastern Shore. Learn more about her as you continue to meet the MFB Family.

September 16, 2022

VIDEO: Mid Shore Meals ’til Monday Receives Outstanding Partner Award

The “Outstanding Partner” award-winning Sandy Hill Elementary School has been an MFB partner since 2021, serving the Cambridge community in Dorchester County. Their partnership with Mid-Shore Meals ’til Monday means that schoolchildren and their families have enough to eat in the evenings and over the weekends when they lose access to school food.

August 29, 2022

Back to School: Solving Hunger is not Child’s Play

For years, MFB Kids programs have been working to ensure younger Marylanders have access to the healthy foods they need to achieve, but the pandemic created barriers we never could have imagined, making these programs more important today than ever before.

July 13, 2022

New MFB Research Paints More Complete Picture of Food Insecurity

This report presents a more complete picture of what it means to be food insecure in Maryland. It reviews and interprets available data sets from various resources to better understand how wages, housing, and other indicators of hardship (aka “root causes”) interconnect and ultimately manifest in the form of food insecurity.

March 7, 2022

Donors Elevate Us All

In addition to a rash of new donors, long-standing food bank friends like the Baltimore Ravens really stepped up for the extraordinary number of Marylanders who faced food insecurity in FY21 — many for the first time.

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