PORTIONS | May 2023
Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank
Celebrating 75 Years of Service
To celebrate their 75th birthday, Dilworth Lutheran Church ensured that hungry neighbors could celebrate their loved one's birthdays with a homemade cake.

Special thanks to the Lutheran Church School kids for assembling these fun, shelf-stable birthday cake boxes for the Great Plains Food Bank earlier this month!
2022 Agency of the Year Award Winners
The Great Plains Food Bank has named the Garrison Area Resource Center and Food Pantry (GARC), Bottineau Food Pantry, and the Mercer Country Women’s Action and Resource Center (WARC) as its 2022 Agency of the Year Award winners. Each recipient truly epitomizes the organization’s core values of passion, service and innovation.

The Agency of the Year Award is the highest honor given to our network of 200 food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens located throughout North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota. These partners were nominated for their exceptional commitment to those they have served over the previous calendar year.
Stories of Hope:
Cassie & Joshua
While there are many fewer migratory workers across North Dakota in modern times, Cassie Scheiman is no stranger to the rich agricultural history of North Dakota. Cassie is a traditional migrant worker, a descendant of many generations of migrant farm workers.

We had the opportunity to meet Cassie and her 3-year-old son, Joshua, while at the Lisbon Food Pantry. Joshua happily waited alongside his mother and her 72-year-old aunt, Elochia, for their turn to see what foods were available for their meals throughout the coming week. Despite the wait, Joshua was so excited to play with the toys provided in the waiting area!
'Stamp Out Hunger' raises over 10,000 lbs. of food for families in need
Held the second Saturday in May of each year, Stamp Out Hunger has collected more than 2 billion pounds of food nationwide to help feed those in need since 1993.

This year’s event took place on May 13, 2023, prompting the Fargo-Moorhead community to respond with over 10,000 pounds of non-perishable food items for our neighbors in need! Donations made to the Stamp Out Hunger campaign were delivered directly to the Emergency Food Pantry of Fargo and the Great Plains Food Bank.

A huge thank you to those postal service workers in the neighborhoods of West Fargo, Trollwood, and Prairiewood, for being invaluable partners in the mission to end hunger across our region.
About the Great Plains Food Bank
The Great Plains Food Bank's mission is 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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