All funds raised go to the La Mochila Alegre program of the Puerto Rico Food Bank. #NewsismyBusiness
The campaign marks the nonprofit’s 35 years providing nutritional assistance to local families. #NewsismyBusiness
The campaign aimed at easing food insecurity among children will benefit the Puerto Rico Food Bank’s “La Mochila Alegre” program. #NewsismyBusiness
This year’s grantees include organizations in 26 Campbell communities from 16 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico. #NewsismyBusiness
The grant is added to a $10,000 donation from the Mano Amiga Program from Plaza Las Américas Foundation, an affiliate of Baristas del Caribe.
The food boxes will distributed in collaboration with other nonprofit organizations associated with the Puerto Rico Food Bank.
Goya responded to word that the Food Bank was struggling after Hurricane Fiona.
The initiative is part of the entity’s “Helping the helpers” emergency response to Hurricane Fiona.
The fundraising campaign will benefit the Puerto Rico Food Bank.
Mastercard is joining forces with the Puerto Rico Food Bank to combat hunger on the island and anticipates it will deliver some 4,000 “Mochilas Alegres” by the end of the year. For every five contactless transactions, Mastercard will donate a “Mochila Alegre” with food supplies to a child in need when school cafeterias are closed […]
Since the first week of April, the Puerto Rico Food Bank has been delivering food boxes to families at risk of facing of food insecurity in six communities in the towns of Juana Díaz and Santa Isabel. This effort is made possible through a grant from the Bayer Fund, the agricultural company’s philanthropic arm. Through […]
The Puerto Rico Food Bank announced the distribution of $2 million among 25 community projects that will bring Puerto Rico closer to the goal of Zero Hunger, said Denise L. Santos, president of the nonprofit. This contribution is connected to a donation from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, who chose the Bank as one of the only […]
Kimberly-Clark Puerto Rico’s social responsibility and community assistance in benefit of the island was recognized with the “Community Involvement Award” presented by Walmart, which also bestowed them with the “Bronze Supplier of the Year.” The Community Involvement Award, which Kimberly-Clark Puerto Rico receives for the first time, recognizes various corporate social responsibility initiatives the company […]
The United Way of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Food Bank were two of the 384 nonprofits that will split $4.2 billion in charitable giving from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, co-founder of Amazon and the richest woman in the world. In a post she published late last week, Scott said the economic and health-related losses […]
The Puerto Rico Food Bank, a nonprofit that distributes supplies to more than 140 organizations dedicated to fighting hunger in Puerto Rico, has launched a food collection campaign to deliver aid to the communities most affected by this week’s earthquakes. “The need is great and to continue with our mission to fight hunger in every […]
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