Walmart Puerto Rico, store suppliers partner to ease food insecurity
March 6, 2025
All funds raised go to the La Mochila Alegre program of the Puerto Rico Food Bank. #NewsismyBusiness
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Puerto Rico Food Bank launches campaign to reduce food insecurity
September 11, 2023
The campaign marks the nonprofit’s 35 years providing nutritional assistance to local families. #NewsismyBusiness
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Walmart Puerto Rico, suppliers join in Fight Against Hunger campaign
April 17, 2023
The campaign aimed at easing food insecurity among children will benefit the Puerto Rico Food Bank’s “La Mochila Alegre” program. #NewsismyBusiness
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Puerto Rico Food Bank gets $20K Campbell Soup Foundation grant
April 10, 2023
This year’s grantees include organizations in 26 Campbell communities from 16 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico. #NewsismyBusiness
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Baristas Del Caribe, Starbucks Foundation grant $15K to PR Food Bank
October 18, 2022
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.
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American Red Cross, Puerto Rico Food Bank to distribute 25K food boxes
October 10, 2022
The food boxes will distributed in collaboration with other nonprofit organizations associated with the Puerto Rico Food Bank.
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Goya donates $37K in food products to Puerto Rico Food Bank
September 29, 2022
Goya responded to word that the Food Bank was struggling after Hurricane Fiona.
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Puerto Rico Food Bank assigns $2.3M to food security projects
September 28, 2022
The initiative is part of the entity’s “Helping the helpers” emergency response to Hurricane Fiona.
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Walmart, suppliers join Fight Against Hunger initiative
April 29, 2022
The fundraising campaign will benefit the Puerto Rico Food Bank.
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Mastercard partners with Puerto Rico Food Bank to deliver 4K ‘Mochilas Alegres’
December 16, 2021
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 […]
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Puerto Rico Food Bank, Bayer team up to deliver food boxes in Juana Díaz, Santa Isabel
October 14, 2021
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 […]
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Puerto Rico Food Bank distributes $2M to fight local hunger
September 27, 2021
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 […]
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Kimberly-Clark Puerto Rico recognized for corporate social responsibility
March 12, 2021
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 […]
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2 local nonprofits receive grants from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
December 21, 2020
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 […]
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P.R. Food Bank launches campaign to collect supplies for communities hit by earthquakes
January 9, 2020
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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