PORTIONS | January 2022
Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank
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2021 Agency of the Year Award nominations are now open |
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The Great Plains Food Bank is honored to announce we have opened the nomination process for 2021 Agency of the Year Award. This is the highest honor given each year to our network of partner food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens and we need your help to identify them.
We are looking for nominations from your outstanding partner food pantry that shows passion in their client-centered work, are innovative, customer service focused and continually work to ensure no person or family goes to bed hungry.
Nominations are open until January 31.
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Her birthday wish has provided thousands of meals for so many |
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Gowri Pillai completes her annual food and funds drive to benefit the Great Plains Food Bank
She has been collecting food and money donations since she was just four years old when she witnessed homelessness firsthand and felt there was something she could do. That year, with her birthday coming up, instead of presents she decided to ask for food donations for the food bank and has been doing it every year since.
Gowri recently completed this year's food and funds drive by collecting 1,197 pounds of food and $1,561. In total, she has now collected 5,227 pounds of food and $4,387 since 2013, which is enough to provide 17,517 meals.
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Donations made to the Great Plains Food Bank |
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As many across North Dakota and Clay County, Minn., continue to battle food insecurity, the Great Plains Food Bank remains grateful to our dedicated financial donors that give to the fight to end hunger.
Making recent substantial gifts were: Automated Maintenance Services, Inc. ($5,000), Dr. Calvin Fercho Family Foundation ($5,000), Our Savior's Lutheran Church ($5,000), Kost Materials LLC ($5,000), AT&T ($5,000), The Pifer Group, Inc. ($7,500), Xcel Energy ($7,500), Alex Stern Family Foundation ($10,000), David & Janet McNair Family Fund ($10,000), Thrivent Member Network Northland Region ($10,000), Norwood Sales, Inc. ($10,000 gifts), Scheels ($19,500), Bell Bank & Trust ($15,000), Archer Daniels Midland Company ($15,000), Marathon Oil ($15,000), Tom & Frances Leach Foundation ($20,000), Second Step Foundation ($40,000), Whiting Petroleum Corporation ($65,000), Partnership for a Healthier America ($70,000).
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Client Spotlight: Barilynn Everett |
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Barilynn Everett is a working college student doing what she can to contribute to her family. Her brother Byron and herself have been supporting their mother Heidi who has been battling cancer as both have been working to help aid in the debt that has been piling up.
We caught up with Barilynn at a recent stop of the Great Plains Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry, which provides her family with the food they need when their expenses limit what they have available for food.
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About the Great Plains Food Bank |
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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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GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK
1720 3rd Avenue North
Fargo, ND 58102
1315 South 20th Street
Bismarck, ND 58504
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