With the growing need for food assistance, local nonprofits and donation farms have joined forces to nourish neighbors this holiday season.
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Abundance on the menu at Freeport Community Services
Freeport Community Services is gearing up for its annual free Thanksgiving meal event, thanks to the support of many local businesses and organizations.
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Portland food pantry finds temporary location, avoids closure
Project FEED, which faced temporary closure due to upcoming year-long construction at Woodfords Congregational Church, has found a new location on Brighton Avenue.
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UNE packs 100,000 meal kits to help address food insecurity in Maine
Volunteers and UNE students joined together to pack 100,000 meal kits last week.
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Portland food pantry urgently seeks temporary location
Project FEED at Woodfords Corner must find a new location by the end of September or pause their operations for at least a year.
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Midcoast nonprofit surpasses 100,000 pounds of produce
Growing to Give reached a milestone this August, donating over 100,000 pounds of produce, an estimated 83,333 meals, to address the critical need.
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Summer meals programs gets food to thousands of Maine kids, but barriers remain
Each summer, thousands of free meals are handed out to children across Maine, but hunger prevention advocates say more flexibility would allow more families to access the food they need.
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Brunswick anti-hunger agency to share $7.4 million federal grant with local groups
The money will be invested in 7 projects aimed at getting more local ingredients in Maine’s school lunches and improving food system practices.
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St. John’s students form ‘giving chain’ to donate food in Brunswick
Students from pre-K through eighth grade lined up from St. John’s Catholic School on Pleasant Street to Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program on Tenney Way. MCHPP welcomed the large donation amid increasing food assistance needs in the region.
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More than half of food-insecure Mainers can’t get food stamps
More Maine households are relying on the state’s network of food pantries and meal programs to bring home enough groceries to feed their families, according to Good Shepherd Food Bank.