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Sacramento Area Could Win $1 Million to Fight Hunger!

2010-12-30T22:33:09Z

A Wal-Mart Facebook campaign is helping to raise awareness of hunger in our communities while offering $1 million dollars to the fight. One in five Californians is food insecure and in the Sacramento area 17.7% of families (national average: 9.2%) cannot afford regular meals.

Sacramento needs your help! Anyone with a Facebook can participate and support the fight against hunger by visiting the website and “liking” Sacramento. Wal-Mart will donate $1 million to the community with the most support and $100,000 each to the next five communities. The Sacramento area is currently in 7th place. The deadline is December 31, 2010, 4pm PST.

Spread the word
Once you've “Liked” Sacramento, there's still more you can do. Share it with your friends. Get their support. You'll not only be helping out the Sacramento area, you'll be raising awareness of the hunger problem in America.

Thank you for your support and let’s get voting!

CA State Employees & Sacramento Emergency Foodlink Collect over 770,000 lbs of Food

2010-02-09T15:59:42Z

California State Employees in the Sacramento area together with Sacramento Emergency Foodlink (Foodlink), began collecting food in early November 2009 and continued through January 2010 for the annual Food Drive. This year, despite state furloughs and salary cuts for many state employees, there was a record amount of participation among California State Departments and Agencies with over 200 offices partaking in the Food Drive. As a result, over 770,000 pounds of food were collected which is an increase from last’s year total of 758,000.

“The Food Drive sponsored by California State Employees is one of our largest food drives of the year," says John Healey, President/CEO of Foodlink. "Year after year, I am amazed by the generosity of California’s State Employees and the immense effort put forth to feed the hungry in the Sacramento area. The California State Employees yet again proved what an extremely generous group they are. We are incredibly thankful for their continued support in the fight against hunger. ”

The Food Drive is as important as ever as Foodlink, Sacramento County’s official Food Bank, has seen the demand for food assistance in the area rise at least 35% in the last year. Foodlink’s distribution partner, Feeding America, states that almost 1 in 6 Americans are now hungry with over 3.7 million Californians classified as food insecure.

The food collected during the Food Drive will be distributed by Foodlink to over 120 food closets and agencies throughout the Sacramento area. For more information about the 2009 Food Drive, please visit www.fooddrive.ca.gov.

Shortage of Holiday Meat for Sacramento Food Closets

2009-11-18T18:25:47Z

Shortage of Holiday Meat for Sacramento Food Closets
Sacramento Emergency Foodlink is in need of Holiday Meat for Local Food Closets

November 18, 2009 Sacramento, CA – Local Food Closets and Agencies will be visiting Sacramento Emergency Foodlink (Foodlink) this Friday, November 20, 2009 to pick up their holiday meat. Sacramento agencies have submitted over 2,500 requests for holiday meat. Foodlink has enough holiday meat to fulfill 1,000 of these requests, leaving 1,500 recipients with no holiday meat.

We need your help! In response to the shortage, Sacramento Emergency Foodlink, the Official Food Bank of Sacramento County, will be collecting holiday meat donations through the end of the year to try to fulfill these requests. Any holiday meat, chickens, turkeys, and hams, can be donated at Foodlink located at 5800 Foodlink Street, Sacramento, CA 95828.

All donated holiday meat will be dispersed among the Food Closets throughout Sacramento County. The Food Closets and Agencies will then distribute the holiday meat to individuals in their communities.

For more information about Foodlink please visit www.foodlink.org.

Below is a list of Foodlink partner Food Closets and Agencies that visit Foodlink weekly for food and commodities:

Antioch Progressive Baptist Church
Arden Church of the Nazarene
Assoc. Of African American Single Mothers
Atonement Lutheran
Broadway Head Start
Capital City SDA
Carmichael SDA
Carmichael Presbyterian
Cathedral of Praise
Central Downtown Christian Solders
Collings Teen Center
Community Won
Cordova Food Locker
D&A Detox
Diogenes Youth Services
El Camino Baptist
Elevation of the Holy Cross
Elk Grove Food Closet Florin Meadows Head Start
Folsom Cordova Community Partnership
Fruitridge Head Start
—South County Services
Gateway Recovery Home for Women
Gathering Place/River of Life
Genesis Baptist
Gifted Healing Center
Gloryland Revival
Greater Grace
Heavenly Helpers
HOPEFUL Inc
Hopkins Park Head Start
House of Hope
Liberty Ministries
Lighthouse Samoan Assembly of God
Loaves and Fishes
Mustard Seed Faith Ministries
NBQ Fiji Mission
Nedra Court Head Start
New Covenant Church of the Nazarene
North Highlands Food Ministries
Now Faith Church of Deliverance
Options of Recovery
Orangevale SDA
Peacespeaker Ministries
People of Purpose
Phoenix Park Head Start
Phoenix Park/Franklin Villa
Pointman International
Quinn Cottages
Radiant Life
River City Community Services
Robla Elementary
Sacramento Bread of Life Ministries
Sacramento Food Bank
Sacramento Recovery Home
SAEHC
Salvation Army
Serna Center
Sierra Arden
Slavic Missionary Center
Southgate SDA
Southpointe Christian Center
South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership
St. John’s Women’s Shelter
St. Mathews
Sunrise Christian
SVDP Our Lady
SVDP Roseville
SVDP St. Charles
SVDP St. John’s
Teen Challenge
Temple of Deliverance
Traveler’s Aid
Trinity Life Center
Twin Lakes Food Bank
Union Gospel Mission
United States Mission
Victory Life Bible Church
Vietnam Vets of CA
Volunteers of America
Walnut Grove—South County Services
Wellspring Women’s Center
WIND Youth Center
World Fijian Fellowship