8/20/2016 – Rhode Islanders in need can now find a helping hand and a bite to eat at the end of a phone line. Hunger Free America has launched a toll-free “National Hunger Hotline” that aims to put those in search of food in touch with private and government resources that can help provide it. The coast-to-coast initiative, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, operates Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at (866) 348-6479 or (877) 842-6273. More
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Updated Reports Examines Local Food Needs
July 26, 2016: EcoRI: The Rhode Island Policy Food Council, in conjunction with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and Rhode Island Foundation recently released a report on the state’s food system. More
Find a Local Food Pantry
Food Bank Holds Summer Food Drive to Address Critical Need
6/21/2016 – On Tuesday, June 21, the Rhode Island Community Food Bank launched the 2016 Summer Food Drive to address the need for food assistance all summer long. More
The Invisible Helping Hand
Canice Prendergast is an economics professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He works in the language of dense mathematical models that aim to clarify why, for example, service at airport security is so dismal and why that might actually be a good thing. (Because a few of the Department of Homeland Security’s “customers” may be bomb-carrying terrorists, it’s not exactly a customer-is-always-right setting.) He’s a serious enough art collector that when Booth built a $125 million campus across the way from Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark Robie House, Prendergast was put in charge of a million-dollar budget for decorating its hallways. Instead of the usual array of bland landscapes and oil paintings of old white men in suits that populate the walls of many business schools, Booth’s walls are filled with abstract, conceptual works that challenge and often mystify its faculty and students. More
Community Resource Listing
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
List of local and some national community agencies and resources dealing with hunger or helping those in need.
Monthly Resource FAQs
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
Monthly and up-to-date list of links to basic needs resources focused on a specific topic. The topics are selected based on timeliness or concerns expressed by member agencies. All resources are verified before being added to the list, so users can be assured they are accurate and relevant on the date published. If you would like to recommend a specific topic or contribute a useful resource, email or call 401-230-1701. Contact: Kristina Fox.
Snap Outreach
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
Collection of guidelines, forms, flyers, and materials that can be used to provide detailed information on the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to your clients. To obtain copies of these flyers, email or call 401-230-1701. Contact: Kristina Fox
Nobody’s Just Hungry Community Resource Training Kit
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
This kit was designed to train and support agency member staff & volunteers on how to make quality referrals for their guests. With minimal training on these resources, your program will have the basic ability to assist your clients in those critical moments when their needs are immediate and pressing. Community Resource Coordinator Kristina Fox will provide on-site training to member agencies to show you how it’s done! Website Email
Food Safety Standards and Nutrition Education
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
Provides information to all members and Food Bank staff for reference in the areas of safe food storage, food handling, soliciting donations, receiving donations, handling food recalls, and record keeping. Version 1, September 2012.