Food Bank for Westchester

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•	Donate Food
•	Donate Time: Volunteer
•	Get Involved: your voice can help change policy

Who IS Helping Us

Bank of America: Making a Difference

in the Fight Against Hunger

Thank you for donating to Bank of America’s Gift for Opportunity Fund. For every $1 donated, Bank of America gave $2 – a two for one match! -- to Feeding America and local food banks.

Wells Fargo Advisors recently donated $5,000 to the Food Bank. Pictured above, left to right are Wells Fargo Advisors’ Senior Vice-President Glenn K. Ziegler; Assistant to Mr. Ziegler Diana Fava; Managing Partner Paul Bronzo; Food Bank for Westchester Senior Director of Development Katy Coppinger and Executive Director Christina Rohatynskyj.

The Tarrytown branch of Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC, financial advisers, presented the Food Bank with a check for $1,500 on December 22. Pictured left to right: Raymond A. Kraus, Joseph Fenton, Food Bank Executive Director Christina Rohatynskyj, Donald DeAgazio, Anthony Falco, John Ruggiero, and Steve Libov. Photo by Lawrence Giodrano.

Pepsico Feeds America volunteers repacking elbow macaroni in our warehouse 9/29/11.

The FujiFilm team of volunteers in our warehouse for a recent repack.

Carolyn Winuk organized this 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance in the Food Bank warehouse September 7, 2011. Her brother-in-law was a first-responder to the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 and died that day.

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2011 HUNGER HEROES

2011 Hunger Heroes: From left: Steven Hunt, Dobbs Ferry Sacred Heart Food for the Hungry, Volunteer Award; Shawn Patterson-Howard, Executive Director, Yonkers Family YMCA, Service Provider Award; Jean McGovern, Corporate Giving Manager, MBIA Foundation, Corporate Service Award; and Scott Earl, Associate Store Team Leader, Whole Foods Market-White Plains, Donor Award.

GIVE-BACK OLYMPICS 2011

Stop & Shop Supermarkets – the winning team!

Community Partners

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THANK YOU!

Thanks to YOU, we made it!

THANK YOU to everyone who joined the Lanza Challenge and donated to the campaign….. Because of you, we made our goal of $750,000 to renovate and equip the larger warehouse in Elmsford….

Your contributions will help us get more food out to more hungry people in 2012. We can’t thank you enough for your generous support….

Watch for information re: our official opening at 200 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford 10523….

THE FOOD BANK HAS MOVED….

We have moved to a new facility with a larger warehouse at 200 Clearbrook Rd., Elmsford…

View our progress...

FOOD GROWING PROGRAM

Food Bank’s Three Sister’s garden at the Westchester Land Trust site in Bedford Hills. Here, corn, beans and squash grow together in a traditional companion planting that reaps healthful crops.

To read Farmer Doug’s logs, click here.

For more information about the Food Growing Program, click here

Nutrition Tips

Nutrition Resource Manager Sara Cox has provided these timely tips about food growing, preparation and safety on warm summer days:

Food Safety Tip, January 2012: Limits to Leftovers
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Use-by Guide for Poultry click here.

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