Retired volunteer busies herself by giving back
For seven years Paula Caplan has served once a week at the Jewish Family and Community Services’ Max Block Food Pantry. Although she wishes she were out of a job […]
Food pantry aims to help people help themselves
Falling in line with the century-old Jewish Family & Community Service’s mission to “help people help themselves,” JFCS’s Max Block Food Pantry does not discriminate when it comes to helping […]
Nonprofit provides alternate way to feed people in need
Since its inception five years ago, Hunger Fight has distributed more than 3,711,943 prepackaged meals to children and families deemed food insecure throughout the Southeast. Although the nonprofit, founded by […]
Becoming part of “something bigger than myself”
It was the song “Fill a Heart” Tori Kelly wrote for the campaign Child Hunger Ends Here that inspired the Williams sisters, Khadjah and Vivica, to volunteer nearly all their […]
Major food bank distributes food so hungry can be fed
There is no single human need greater than food, and because hunger triggers crime, and affects unemployment, worker productivity, and education, Feeding Northeast Florida is doing everything it can to […]