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The coronavirus pandemic has been particularly tough on the restaurant industry, but one Arkansas restaurant still managed to raise more than $9,000 for a local food bank. On Thursday, Chicken ...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (TB&P) — The Northwest Arkansas Food Bank received funds from Midwest Dairy Corp. as part of a $500,000 donation to food banks in 10 states to provide local milk to those in need.
Kent Elkenberry, president and CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank, said the nonprofit anticipated that the Local Food Purchase Assistance funding might not last forever. The NWA Food Bank ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — It was an inspiring start to the day at the Arkansas Foodbank, as KATV team members volunteered to help Arkansans in need. A few dozen KATV employees met up this morning as ...
TEXARKANA, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) — Arkansas’ Harvest Regional Food Bank is one of many that have had shipments of food from the U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled. Though the shipments total ...
The Arkansas Department of Education distributes the federal funding from the LFPA program to food banks and other organizations to buy food from local farmers. A spokesperson for the department ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cut more than $1 billion in federal programs that gave schools and food banks funding to purchase food from local farms and ranchers ― a move that school ...
they made a decision to end the LFPA Program,” said the CEO of the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas Christie Jordan. The Local Food Purchase Agreement was a grant received by food banks from the ...