We just got a grant from the Westchester Community Foundation! They gave us $52,000 for our Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and expenses. They also made a previous grant of $40,000 for our Adopt-a-Pantry program to increase the availability of food at food pantries. And they made an earlier grant of $15,000 to support our Food Growing Program. We thank this great partner.

Thanks to the Kraft Foods Foundation (now known as Mondelez International Foundation) and Feeding America for providing the Food Bank's new Kraft Mobile Food Pantry to bring fresh food to hard-to-reach communities and people at high risk of hunger and food insecurity. Thanks also to Stop & Shop Supermarkets for partnering with the Food Bank in this initiative. Look for the pantry truck around the county in coming weeks and months.

The Food Bank’s Valentine’s Day Wine-Tasting Dinner was postponed to March 15 because of Snowstorm Nemo. Thanks to this hard-working team who made the event a great success and to the evening’s honoree, Tom Lalla, of Pernod-Ricard USA. L. to R: Joanne Carroll Homlish, Tom Lalla, Anne Ring, Jean Marie Connolly, and Food Bank Board Member Scott Boilen.

Students from Scarsdale Middle School in the Food Bank clean room packing Green Thumb produce – fresh corn, yellow squash and oranges -- for hungry people as part of their Hunger 101 curriculum.

Staff from Kraft Foods in Tarrytown in our warehouse recently where they packed BackPack bags of food for hungry children for the weekend. Thank you, Kraft Foods!

Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger has donated $10,000 for political advocacy efforts. The grant will support Food Bank initiatives advocating for hunger relief and a hunger-free environment. With politicians in Washington proposing major cuts to vital anti-hunger programs to balance the budget, the timing of this donation couldn’t be better.