School is out for summer! That might seem like an exciting thing for many children, but for many people who serve kids living with food insecurity, it’s a time of worry. The need makes the push for Summer Youth Café sites so critical. A Summer Youth café is a location where any person ages 18 […]

June is fruits and veggies month, so today’s food podcast focuses on the Food Bank’s innovative way to get fresh produce from local farms to areas where healthy food is difficult to find. It’s called the Green Grocer, and while it looks like a food truck, you won’t find burgers or tacos when you visit. […]

The food bank is proud to partner with KDKA-TV, Giant Eagle and Citizens Bank for this year’s Feed the Kids Telethon. The telethon airs June 2nd. For every dollar that’s donated, Citizens Bank will match donations up to $40,000. In 2020, the telethon raised $154,754. In honor of the Feed the Kids Telethon, the food […]

This episode of the Food Podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s Food Justice is social justice initiative. This initiative is intended to create awareness about social inequality, while educating the Food Bank’s service area of numerous organizations in the region that are focused on ending racism and creating equality for all. This […]

An interview with Food Bank’s Director of Child Nutrition Programs Karen Dreyer Rewind to one year ago. Every school in Western PA had to switch to remote learning, and overnight, the food bank’s child nutrition team had to find a way to make sure kids reliant on school meal programs, still had food while learning […]

Not many people realize, the food bank not only houses and distributes food to the people of Greater Pittsburgh, it grows it too. Drive 30 miles north of Pittsburgh on the campus of Chatham University Eden Hall, and you’ll find an acre plot where fruits and veggies grow. http://files.triblive.com/podcasts/sportstalk/Season%202%20Ep%2024.mp3

This week’s Food Podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s Food Justice is social justice initiative. This week, the food podcast featured The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Pittsburgh. APALA Pittsburgh is a national organization of AAPI union members and allies advancing worker, immigrant and civil rights. http://files.triblive.com/podcasts/sportstalk/Season%202%20Ep%2023.mp3

Starting the week of April 26th, Krista Johnson will take the lead on the podcast as Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s newest Communications and Public Relations Specialist. She joins this week’s podcast as the guest interview to introduce herself and her background. http://files.triblive.com/podcasts/sportstalk/Season%202%20Ep%2022.mp3