East Texas Food Bank

It takes a team to fight hunger and feed hope, so the East Texas Food Band staff wore their favorite “teams” today for Hunger Action Month.

Two weeks into our "Spread the Love" peanut butter drive and Longview has taken back the lead in jars donated!
Donations of peanut butter are accepted until September 27th at participating Brookshire's, Super 1 Foods and Fresh by Brookshire's stores in Tyler and Longview. You can also donate peanut butter online at https://EastTexasFoodBank.org/pbdrive. Kristen Ishihara Mayor of Longview City of Tyler, Texas Government

The East Texas Food Bank Mobile Pantry Program distribution in Athens for Saturday, September 21st has been CANCELED at 421 N. Prairieville Street. For additional food assistance locations, please visit http://EastTexasFoodBank.org and click "Find Food".
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La distribución del Programa de Despensa Móvil del East Texas Food Bank en Athens para el sábado 21 de Septiembre ha sido CANCELADA en 421 N. Prairieville Street. Para conocer otros lugares donde se puede obtener asistencia alimentaria, visite EastTexasFoodBank.org y haga clic en "Buscar alimentos".

The fall edition of Servings, our seasonal newsletter, is available now. Read it here: https://etfb.link/FallNewsletter

The East Texas Food Bank Resource Centers in Longview, Lufkin, Texarkana and Tyler will be closed Friday, September 20th and Saturday, September 21st. Normal hours will resume Tuesday, September 24th.
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Los centros de recursos del Banco de Alimentos del Este de Texas en Longview, Lufkin, Texarkana y Tyler estarán cerrados el viernes 20 de septiembre y el sábado 21 de septiembre. El horario normal se reanudará el martes 24 de septiembre.

The Tyler Resource Center has been busy serving our neighbors each day. We are so glad to have wonderful volunteers and staff here to help!

Check out the latest update in the "Spread the Love" peanut butter drive. Tyler has leaped ahead with almost 1,000 jars donated so far.
Donations of peanut butter are accepted until September 27th at participating Brookshire's, Super 1 Foods and Fresh by Brookshire's stores in Tyler and Longview. You can also donate peanut butter online at http://EastTexasFoodBank.org/pbdrive. Look for the next update this Friday! City of Tyler, Texas Government Kristen Ishihara Mayor of Longview

The East Texas Food Bank is grateful to be recipients of the John Reagan Harris Grant Fund in Center, TX through the East Texas Communities Foundation. This grant of $9,000 will go to support food distribution for families facing hunger.

The East Texas Food Bank honored the Ground Floor Collective and Henry McCant with Hunger Hero Awards today as part of Hunger Action Month.
The Ground Floor Collective received the Community Partner Hunger Hero Award. The group unites and empowers communities by providing resources to East Texans.
Henry McCant with the Christian Pantry in Cass County received the Hunger Hero Lifetime Achievement Award.
Read more: https://etfb.link/hungerhero24

Competition is heating up in our "Spread the Love" peanut butter drive. ETFB Chief Development Officer Tim Butler joined KLTV 7 East Texas Now earlier this week to talk about the collection and importance of peanut butter for our families.

East Texas Food Bank announces 'Spread the Love' intercity competition Tim Butler, Chief Development Officer at the ETFB joined East Texas Now Thursday to speak about their inaugural “Spread the Love” Peanut Butter drive.

Thanks to Texas College football and baseball teams for helping at our mobile distribution at Bethel Bible Church recently. Over 400 families were provided fresh produce thanks to their generosity.

East Texas Food Bank staff dressed in camo and green today to "combat hunger" for Hunger Action Month.

The first week of the "Spread the Love" peanut butter drive is wrapping up and Longview has pulled ahead of Tyler with 165 jars donated.
Donations of peanut butter are accepted until September 27th at participating Brookshire's, Super 1 Foods and Fresh by Brookshire's stores in Tyler and Longview. You can also donate peanut butter online at http://EastTexasFoodBank.org/pbdrive.

The East Texas Food Bank Resource Centers in Longview, Lufkin, Texarkana and Tyler will be CLOSED Thursday, September 12th for staff training. All resource centers will be open their regularly scheduled hours on Friday, September 13th.
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Los centros de recursos del East Texas Food Bank en Longview, Lufkin, Texarkana y Tyler estarán CERRADOS el jueves 12 de septiembre para la capacitación del personal. Todos los centros de recursos estarán abiertos en su horario habitual el viernes 13 de septiembre.

East Texas Food Bank staff took action on "Hunger Action Day" by wearing orange in our offices, resource centers and out in the field.
September is Hunger Action Month, an effort to raise awareness about hunger in East Texas and throughout the country.

The East Texas Food Bank honored Chick-fil-A and the Episcopal Health Foundation with Hunger Hero Awards today as part of Hunger Action Month.
Chick-fil-A (CFA) stores in Tyler and Lindale received the Corporate Partner Hunger Hero Award for their continuing mission of partnering with the East Texas Food Bank. Owner/operators of the four stores include: Ikey Eason, Joseph Williams, Joshua Johnson and Jeff Johnston.
Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) received the Foundation Partner Hunger Hero Award. EHF has provided the ETFB with over $450,000 in funding to increase access to SNAP assistance at our resource centers in Tyler and Longview.
Read more: https://etfb.link/hungerhero24

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The East Texas Food Bank honored UBank US today with a Hunger Hero Award as part of Hunger Action Month.

UBank received the Corporate Partner Hunger Hero Award. For the past five years, UBank has held the Good for Country concert in Lufkin with top country music artists raising over $116,000.
Read more here: https://etfb.link/hungerhero24

Thanks to Aracontinental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages employees for volunteering with us this week. Company employees have the opportunity to pick where to volunteer and we were thrilled they chose us!
Aracontinental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages also donated 600 cases of water to the food bank.

Thank you to Sprouts Farmers Market and Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation for a grant of $5,000 for our Healthy Cooking classes. These funds will provide groceries for participants to take home after each class. Almost 8,300 meals will be provided with this generous gift.

Congratulations to our Director of Engagement Amber Adams for being featured in Four States Living Magazine's "Fabulous 40 and Under" recently. Read more about Amber here: https://issuu.com/fourstatesliving/docs/fslm_0924-fmc/14

🎉 Thank you to everyone who donated for the 34th Annual Pantry Raid!🎉
Tyler High and Tyler Legacy schools in Tyler ISD raised a combined 117,243 meals for East Texans with $21,745 in monetary donations and 10,222 pounds of nonperishable food.
We appreciate the hard work and dedication of the students and staff who are helping fight hunger.

As part of Hunger Action Month, our ETFB Administration team joined volunteers to help distribute fresh produce items today at our monthly Lindsey Park mobile pantry site in Tyler. Over 670 households were served with nutritious items like potatoes, onions, salads, watermelons and apples.

Our "Spread the Love" Peanut Butter Drive kicked off today in Tyler with Mayor Don Warren and Longview Mayor Kristen Ishihara. This friendly competition will see which city can collect the most peanut butter during Hunger Action Month.
Jars will be collected through September 27th at Brookshire's, Super 1 Foods and Fresh by Brookshire's locations in both Tyler and Longview. You can also make a monetary donation at http://EastTexasFoodBank.org/pbdrive.