PORTIONS | December 2021
Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank
Happy holidays from the Great Plains Food Bank
We work hard at the Great Plains Food Bank to provide needed food assistance to more than 150,000 individuals each year. But once in awhile we like to have some fun.

Check out our holiday video as we try to spread some holiday cheer and wish all our partners, volunteers, food and financial donors and advocates a happy holiday season.
Sobolik shares her story of hunger during House roundtable
Great Plains Food Bank CEO Melissa Sobolik was recently invited to share her own personal hunger story along with thoughts on food insecurity in North Dakota during a recent U.S. House Rules Committee roundtable entitled, "Ending Hunger in America: Food Insecurity in Rural America."

You can hear Melissa's powerful testimony and overall thoughts in the video here.
N.D. Dental Foundation donates 16,702 toothbrush kits to Great Plains Food Bank
The North Dakota Dental Foundation has made a donation of 16,702 toothbrush kits to the Great Plains Food Bank that will be distributed to kids in need through the hunger-relief organization’s backpack program.

The donation is part of the North Dakota Dental Foundation’s 1 Million Brushes Program that aims to provide 1 million toothbrush kits to organizations like the Great Plains Food Bank over the next 10 years through the generosity of donors.
Client Spotlight: Raven Heart
One thing Raven Heart hopes she never has to encounter is to be paid a visit from her 15 grandchildren and she has no food for them.

When times get difficult, that is where the Great Plains Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry has helped make sure that doesn’t happen.

“This is one less thing to worry about,” she says with some relief. “The food really does help.”
About the Great Plains Food Bank
The Great Plains Food Bank strives to end hunger together. A proud partner of Feeding America, our vision is to create a hunger-free North Dakota and Clay County, Minn. We do all things in the spirit of passion, service and innovation. Together we can solve hunger.

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