by Chelsea Anderson | May 23, 2024 | Agency Partner Updates, Impact Stories, Reports
Rev. Dr. Nannette Pierson believes that vision, innovation, collaboration and cooperation are the ingredients needed to support and enhance the communities where we live and work. That is why this founder and director decided to open a food pantry upon her arrival to...
by Chelsea Anderson | May 23, 2024 | Agency Partner Updates, Impact Stories, Reports
Food insecurity is when people can’t access the food they need to live their fullest lives. Food insecurity is an official term from the USDA and is a measurement that we use to identify the places where food is most needed across our service area. In the...
by Chelsea Anderson | Aug 7, 2023 | Agency Partner Updates, Impact Stories, Reports
Because of an impactful donation from Publix and Publix Super Markets Charities, we have purchased and will equip this year a mobile food pantry truck so our neighbors can choose the food they want to take home. Publix is also donating fresh produce to stock the truck...
by Chelsea Anderson | Aug 7, 2023 | Agency Partner Updates, Impact Stories, Reports
Using guidance from Feeding America, we have calculated the meal gap across our service area, which shows how many meals are “missing” in each community. Feeding America estimates that a person who faces food insecurity is missing an average of 5.6 meals...
by Chelsea Anderson | Aug 6, 2023 | Agency Partner Updates, Impact Stories, Reports
Lowcountry Food Bank’s EDI journey began in 2019 through a partnership with the College of Charleston’s Riley Center for Livable Communities. We used data and mapping to identify communities of low food access and high need to distribute our food resources in the most...
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