The Food Bank was selected as a charity partner and will receive donations from the annual Nourishing Neighbors campaign aimed at fighting child hunger.
Valuable supporter of the LA Regional Food Bank, Barilla, hopes to inspire others to take action with Global Angel Wings Project Mural at the Food Bank.
Fighting hunger and food insecurity is a year-round battle, but during the month of September, Hunger Action Month, we ask our supporters to raise awareness on food insecurity.
The Food Bank continues Building Hope: The Campaign for a Brighter Future, a $165 million campaign to increase capacity to better fight hunger in LA County.
For college students, being food insecure has become a stigmatized norm. Many students across Los Angeles County will head to class with empty stomachs, causing a distracted mind, and preventing them from learning in the classrooms.
Well over half of Cerritos College students are faced with the daunting decision of having to choose between purchasing food or buying school textbooks, or even foregoing higher education to be able to put food on the table for themselves or their families.
The LA Regional Food Bank will use this grant to engage local communities to better understand the barriers to accessing food and will support new or expand existing interventions that can help overcome these obstacles.
With more than two million people facing food insecurity in Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has turned into a lifeline for many people in Los Angeles County Angelenos.
The 10th Annual hunger initiative returned this year, albeit scaled-down, in an effort to raise awareness and funds for summer child hunger in LA County.
In addition to the citizens of Los Angeles from a variety of backgrounds and from a variety of professions, we receive celebrity support, which helps raise funds as well as awareness.