PORTIONS | December 2022
Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank
It's the Most Wonderful
Time of the Year at Great Plains
When we aren't doing all we can to be sure no one goes hungry, we like to have some fun around the warehouse...

Happy holidays and New Year from all of us at the Great Plains Food Bank!
Scheels' across ND make an Impact this Holiday Season
Scheels locations across North Dakota participated in their annual Day of Giving earlier this month, graciously presenting a $5,000 gift to be used towards providing meals to our neighbors in need this winter.

Along with their Fill the Check fundraiser via social media, they gifted an additional $7,500 for a total of $12,500. Thanks to Scheels for being an invaluable partner in our mission to end hunger, together.
Gifts of Mention
We greatly appreciate our surrounding business community, and the employees who give so generously of their time and financial resources in the fight to end hunger. We would like to recognize those leaders in our shared mission for a hunger-free ND and west-central MN! Thank you to Comfort Keepers of Fargo/Moorhead and Grand Forks, Moore Holding Company, Contractors Leasing, Grand Forks Food Co-Op, and Kost Materials LLC.

In addition to those outstanding partners, grants were received from the following: Alex Stern Family Foundation ($10,000 towards food recovery and distribution), Cargill ($37,634 towards our agency-enabled retail rescue efforts), the TJX Foundation, Inc. ($10,000 towards our mobile food pantry), and the Tom & Frances Leach Foundation ($35,000 in support of our Bismarck-Mandan food recovery efforts).
Fill the Dome 2022
In a recent letter to the editor of the Forum, Melissa Sobolik, CEO of the Great Plains Food Bank, shared her gratitude towards area students after another successful Fill the Dome event!
10th Annual Food Drive for local teen and hunger advocate
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Gowri Pillai, who has just completed their 10th Annual Food and Funds drive with the support of our amazing community members.

Support for Gowri’s hunger-relief efforts came from family, friends, classmates, and partners like Dacotah Bank and Doosan Bobcat Company, raising a total of 1,442 pounds of food and $5441 in financial donations!
Gowri witnessed homelessness firsthand a decade ago and has since dedicated her birthday to collecting donations through Gowri's Annual Food Drive, for the Great Plains Food Bank. Thanks to Gowri’s selfless spirit, these gifts will go towards the immediate nutritional needs of our neighbors this holiday season.
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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