Blog Category: Blog

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Your Vote Matters

By Glenn Bergman, Executive Director   Election Day is Tuesday, November 6, and Philabundance is urging our staff, our partners, our clients and our neighbors to exercise this precious right.   Your vote is the strongest tool you have to change your community. When you vote, you tell your elected

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Advocacy

Introducing: Our New Director of Government Affairs

By Kate Scully, Director of Government Affairs   Approximately 40% of all food  produced in the U.S. goes to waste. This while 1 in 5 people in Philadelphia, and 1 in 7 nationally, are experiencing hunger. Hunger is an issue about individual and family resources, about the money they have

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Letter From Glenn – Fall 2018

Dear Friend, According to a Children’s HealthWatch study conducted by Dr. Marianna Chilton, “Between 2006 and 2016, childhood hunger in North Philadelphia has more than tripled among families where parents work 20 or more hours a week”. Dr. Chilton also stated that these findings likely resemble rates of childhood hunger

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Philabundance Board Member Wins Minority Business Leader Award

By Craig Ey and Kennedy Rose – Philadelphia Business Journal In her new position, Dixieanne James oversees Einstein’s medicine and surgery departments, and the cancer, heart and vascular and digestive disease and transplantation service lines. She sits on Philabundance’s board of directors to help lead one of the city’s largest

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Letter From Glenn – Summer 2018

Dear Friend,   As the temperature finally starts to warm up, many of us are looking forward to long, sunny days. Unfortunately, for families whose children depend on school meal programs, these days can turn into long, hungry nights. When cafeteria doors close for summer vacation, girls and boys who

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Letter From Glenn – Spring 2018

Dear Friend,   My mother is 99 years old. We’re fortunate that she can collect social security and has other savings to sustain her. Many seniors aren’t as fortunate…   Each week, Philabundance serves about 13,500 seniors in nine counties in PA and NJ. Too often we hear stories about

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Give Hope for the Holidays

Dear Friend, I first want to wish you a happy holiday season! This is a wonderful time to reflect on the past year and imagine how we can make the world a better place. I cannot, however, imagine what it’s like for the many parents and seniors in our community

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No Donation Too Small*

On Thursday, May 11th, we received a donation of 350 pounds of amazing farm product. This is perhaps one of the smallest donations of fresh vegetables we receive, but it is just as meaningful, especially when I tell you who gave it to us, where it came from, and the

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