The Food Pantries for the Capital District

09/14/2022

Thank you Hone Coworks! The space is beautiful!

Hone Coworks was thrilled to have our friends from The Food Pantries for the Capital District hold their planning meeting at our Great Oaks location today! A productive and fun time was had by all! We love having local business take advantage of all that Hone Coworks has to offer, including our meeting rooms!

09/10/2022

09/08/2022

Hannaford Charitable Foundation makes a $300,000 gift to support the Food As Medicine program at The Food Pantries for the Capital District.

Watch to learn more.



Hannaford Supermarkets

08/30/2022

Virtual Conference Date: Wednesday, September 28
https://health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/white-house-conference-hunger-nutrition-and-health

On May 4th of this year, President Biden announced that the White House will host a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this September. This is the first such conference held in over 50 years.

The goal of the Biden-Harris Administration is to end hunger, and to increase healthy eating and physical activity across the United States by 2030—as well as decreasing diet-related diseases and their associated social disparities. The White House reached out to key stakeholders for input to inform the national plan on how to achieve this goal.

The Food Pantries for the Capital District responded with 8 key strategies. Here are Strategies 7 and 8:

7. Fully integrate and fund a continuum of Food as Medicine (FAM) interventions - Veggie Rx, Medically Tailored Groceries, Medically Tailored Meals, Food Farmacies, Nutrition Education – through all public health plans such as Medicaid and Medicare.

8. Support a healthy dignified accessible charitable food system for those who are in need, fall through the cracks, or are unable to work full time, and in the case that Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs are not funded at a level to provide nutrition security.

Click here to read the full document!
https://thefoodpantries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/White-House-Conference-The-Food-Pantries-Feedback-for-Submission-FINAL-July-2022.pdf

Ending Hunger, Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Reducing Diet-Related Diseases and Disparities

08/30/2022

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch4ivmaA1-M/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Thank you La Centralita - Culinary Studio for your wonderful support! You have a beautiful studio!

08/29/2022

On May 4th of this year, President Biden announced that the White House will host a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this September. This is the first such conference held in over 50 years.

The goal of the Biden-Harris Administration is to end hunger, and to increase healthy eating and physical activity across the United States by 2030—as well as decreasing diet-related diseases and their associated social disparities. The White House reached out to key stakeholders for input to inform the national plan on how to achieve this goal.

The Food Pantries for the Capital District responded with 8 key strategies. Here are Strategies 5 and 6:

5. Increase and expand access to Federal Assistance Programs.
6. Fund healthy universal free breakfast and lunch in all public schools.

Click here to read the full document!

08/26/2022

On this beautiful Friday, we would like to take a moment to thank Schär for their generous acts of kindness towards the celiac and gluten sensitive community!

Schär recently helped us access so much gluten-free foods that our Feeding Gluten-Free program was able to get food to TEN different food pantries that serve communities in need. Much of the food was donated by Schär, and the rest was purchased by our FGF program at a generous discount. We were then able to coordinate this food to be delivered all over!

We can’t thank Schär enough for what they do for the GF community. We also have to thank the food pantries for doing it all: receiving the foods, keeping them, and delivering them to those who need it. Those in need deserve access to GF foods, and donations like this help make that happen!

Garden of Health Food Bank Amherst Survival Center The Food Pantries for the Capital District East Bay Food Pantry Project Just Because Easthampton Community Center Mid-Ohio Food Collective Food Bank of Greenwood County South Carolina Gather Toco Hills Community Alliance

08/26/2022

On May 4th of this year, President Biden announced that the White House will host a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this September. This is the first such conference held in over 50 years.

The goal of the Biden-Harris Administration is to end hunger, and to increase healthy eating and physical activity across the United States by 2030—as well as decreasing diet-related diseases and their associated social disparities. The White House reached out to key stakeholders for input to inform the national plan on how to achieve this goal.

The Food Pantries for the Capital District responded with 8 key strategies. Here are Strategies 3 and 4:

3. Raise Federal minimum wages to a level that equates to living wages.

4. Fully fund Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP/WIC/Meals on Wheels) at an investment level that is needed to lift households needing assistance, those who fall through the cracks of a newly instituted living wage minimum, or who are unable to work a full-time job, to nutrition security.

Click here to read the full document!

08/23/2022

REMINDER 😃 THIS WEEKEND

The International Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame uses Induction Weekend to partner with The Food Pantries for the Capital District to fight food insecurity.

Induction weekend
August 26-28 at the MVP Arena and Crowne Plaza Albany- The Desmond Hotel

Each event throughout the weekend is a food drive to benefit The Food Pantries. Learn more here 👇
https://www.prowrestlinghall.org/induction

08/22/2022

On May 4th of this year, President Biden announced that the White House will host a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this September. This is the first such conference held in over 50 years.

The goal of the Biden-Harris Administration is to end hunger, and to increase healthy eating and physical activity across the United States by 2030—as well as decreasing diet-related diseases and their associated social disparities. The White House reached out to key stakeholders for input to inform the national plan on how to achieve this goal.

The Food Pantries for the Capital District responded with 8 key strategies. Here are the first two:

1. Align Federal Policies, Programs, and Investments in support of the goals of this conference.

2. Secure sustainable alignment of Federal Policies, Programs, and Investments in support of the goals of this conference by addressing campaign finance reform and ensure that lobbying efforts of Big Food, Big Ag, and the larger food manufacturing industry that don’t align with the goals of this conference are not given consideration.

Click here to read the full document!

08/19/2022

Thank you Jake and Libby from Morning Rush at Fly 92.3 for a fantastic and informative interview about food insecurity in the Capital District, how to help, how The Food Pantries use that help, and information about the Harvest Evening Celebration on Thursday October, 13 at Franklin Plaza Ballroom in Troy, with Executive Director, Natasha Pernicka.

Listen here 👇
https://thefoodpantries-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/peterk_thefoodpantries_org/ESjfEHMmzGROujWN_NDWYN0B7Csi3162eTVBFTRnyXX-gw

https://www.fly92.com/fly-morning-rush/

Start your mornings with the FLY Morning Rush with Jake & Libby! Weekdays from 5:30am-10:00am

08/18/2022

Food drive at the Capital District YMCA - Guilderland Branch!

June 18, 2020, 6pm-7:30pm