PORTIONS | NOVEMBER 2021
Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank
Help support your school for Fill the Dome
Students are coming together once again to collect donated food items and host their own virtual food drives for the 15th annual Fill the Dome event.

Food donations are currently being collected inside schools and supporters can give to each school's virtual food drive below.

Since 2007, Fill the Dome has collected enough food to provide 4 million meals and collected more than $690,000 in financial donations to help those in need.
Join us November 30 for #GivingTuesday
Join us November 30 to make DOUBLE the difference in the fight to end hunger.

Donations made to the Great Plains Food Bank for #GivingTuesday will be MATCHED.

Thanks to this match, each dollar donated during this annual day of giving can provide six meals for those in need!
KVRR-TV wins inaugural Marv Bossart Voice of Hunger Award
For their steadfast commitment sharing in the Great Plains Food Bank mission to end hunger together, Fargo-Moorhead FOX affiliate KVRR-TV was named the first ever winner of the Great Plains Food Bank Marv Bossart Voice of Hunger Award.

Created earlier this year, the Marv Bossart Voice of Hunger Award lifts up amazing media members and members of the community that go above and beyond in sharing news on the fight to end hunger.

Bossart (shown at right) was a legendary broadcaster for 37 years along with serving on the advisory board and as vice president of the Great Plains Food Bank Fargo-Moorhead Food Recovery Program for more than a decade.
Great Plains Food Bank joins Partnership for a Healthier America's Healthy Hunger Relief Initiative
The Great Plains Food Bank has joined the Partnership for a Healthier America's (PHA) Healthy Hunger Relief initiative to further uplift the health and well-being of communities across North Dakota and Clay County, Minn.

The Great Plains Food Bank will work with PHA, the national nonprofit organization fighting for food equity formed in conjunction with former First Lady Michelle Obama, to address hunger, malnutrition and chronic disease by increasing the supply of healthier options and decreasing the supply of unhealthy options.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Donna Ricker
Donna Ricker has been the primary caregiver for her daughter, Jodahna, who has been stricken with spastic cerebral palsy for nearly four decades.

For assistance through years of difficult times, the two have utilized the Great Plains Food Bank network of partner food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens for help.

And they remain thankful for all that they have to this day.
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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