The Food Bank Blog

Food Bank reveals its new logo and look! While the mission is the same, the logo has changed to reflect the innovative things the Food Bank is already doing to provide critical meals to our neighbors. http://files.triblive.com/podcasts/sportstalk/Season%202%20Ep%2031.mp3

This week’s podcast is a Food Justice is Social Justice episode featuring the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation. The goal of this initiative is to create awareness about social inequality, while educating Food Bank supporters in southwestern PA of numerous organizations in the region that are focused on ending racism and creating equality for all. http://files.triblive.com/podcasts/sportstalk/Season%202%20Ep%2030.mp3

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