PORTIONS | JANUARY 2021
Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank
Giving Hearts Day: Schedule your gift NOW
Each year, more than 50,000 kids and their families turn to the Great Plains Food Bank because they don't have enough food to eat each day.

But YOU can make a difference this Giving Hearts Day when gifts to the Great Plains Food Bank will be matched, allowing you to make double the impact in the fight to end hunger.


With you, kids can eat this Giving Hearts Day.
Hornbacher's makes record donation to Great Plains Food Bank, partners
Hornbacher's representatives stopped by the Great Plains Food Bank to celebrate a record day in the fight to end hunger.

In the 10th year of the Feed Hope campaign, a total of $141,577 was raised for the Great Plains Food Bank along with $10,000 apiece for the Emergency Food Pantry and Dorothy Day Food Pantry. The total far exceeds last year's record of $80,898.

The campaign has now raised more than $650,000 to help in the fight to end hunger since 2011.

Nominate your food pantry for our Agency of the Year Award
We are currently taking nominations for our 2020 Agency of the Year Award.

If your local Great Plains Food Bank partner food pantry, shelter or soup kitchen has gone above and beyond during the last year, please nominate them for the highest award given each year to our partners.


Nominations will be accepted until January 31.
Fill the Dome provides 135,453 meals despite challenging year
COVID-19 presented unprecedented challenges for the 2020 version of Fill the Dome.

However, students came together in a big way to collect 56,780 pounds of food and raise $29,379, which was enough to provide 135,453 meals.

Since 2007, the event has now collected enough to provide 4 million meals for those in need.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Father, son making ends meet with help of food pantry
Dustin Erhart makes his $700 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payment last as long as he is able, but typically comes up short most months attempting the feed himself and his 17-year-old son, Gage.

The single father has found a needed resource at Ministry on the Margins in Bismarck, a partner agency of the Great Plains Food Bank.
About the Great Plains Food Bank
The Great Plains Food Bank strives to end hunger through community partnerships. A proud partner of Feeding America, our vision is to create a hunger-free North Dakota and western Minn. We do all things in the spirit of passion, service and innovation. Together we can solve hunger.

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