Community leaders attend food bank ribbon cutting

Feeding Northeast Florida CEO Susan King (center) with board members Poppy Clements and Lisha Wise

Feeding Northeast Florida’s ribbon cutting ceremony for its new state-of-the-art facility brought together government officials and business leaders with representatives from many of the partner nonprofit organizations who work with […]

Placemaking at its Best: Reimaging Historic Eastside

Debs Store, as it looked from its opening in 1921 until the 1980s.

More than 150 years after the community’s inception, the Eastside is Jacksonville’s last cohesive, historically Black neighborhood from the 19th century. Historic Eastside is probably best defined by “The Avenue,” […]

Food pantry nurtures mind, body and soul

Lord’s Pantry Volunteers include Linda Garrone, Janice Soliz, Ed Schepanski, Charles Green, Brad D. Frederick, Shelby Vann, Rick DuMiller, Pastor Young Smith III, Leroy Lallemand, Willie Vincent Scott, Hai Nguyen and Kevin Meyers.

The sun has barely risen when people begin to line up to receive food at The Lord’s Pantry, a food distribution center run by Community Health Outreach (formerly West Jax […]