Foodlink attends Feeding NYS Lobby Day in Albany
Foodlink joined is food banking colleagues from around the state on Wednesday for a day of meetings with state assemblymembers and senators about Feeding New York State’s budget priorities for 2020. Foodlink is one of nine food banks that comprise Feeding New York State (formerly the Food Bank Association of New York State). The top […]
NYS awards Foodlink nearly $1M in Workforce Development Initiative funding
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited Foodlink Monday to announce multiple grant award winners from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Workforce Development Initiative. Foodlink is receiving a nearly $1 million award to support the Foodlink Career Fellowship, a one-of-a-kind culinary training program that creates pathways to prosperity for individuals with barriers to sustainable employment. The program was recognized […]
New vehicle joins Curbside Market fleet
The newest Curbside Market vehicle is also its largest ever. The new truck helps modernize the fleet for Foodlink’s mobile farmers market, which visits more than 70 weekly sites (90+ during its peak season) to increase access to healthy foods in underserved neighborhoods. Funding for the vehicle was made possible by Foodlink’s grant award from […]
Weather updates: Multiple Foodlink programs cancel due to snow, ice
Snowy and icy conditions have resulted in multiple cancellations Feb. 7 at Foodlink, which will close its offices at noon today. A winter storm warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for Monroe and other counties in the Rochester region. As a result, Foodlink made the following announcements: All volunteer shifts for Friday […]
Tickets on sale now for 2020 Forks & Skis event
Tickets are now on sale for Forks & Skis, an annual charity ski event to benefit Foodlink. The event, presented by Delta Air Lines, will be held March 6 at Hunt Hollow Ski Club, from noon to 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $100 and include your ski pass for the day, lunch, and an Après Ski […]
Project update: Foodlink’s ‘The Healthy Choice’ nutrition ranking system
Foodlink was recently featured in the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition‘s January newsletter, about the work we’re doing related to the Rooted in Evidence grant we received last year. Foodlink is implementing our new nutrition ranking system, The Healthy Choice, in our “Front Door” food pantries — the term we use to describe Foodlink’s high-capacity […]
Curbside Market team begins new winter schedule
The Curbside Market — Foodlink’s mobile farmers market — has transitioned to its winter schedule, as of Jan. 6. While the market operates year-round to provide new access points to healthy food in underserved neighborhoods, the winter months are often a challenge for our drivers. Therefore, our weekly schedule is reduced from about 90+ sites […]
Happy Muffin Day! Foodlink turns 41
Dec. 19 is Muffin Day here at Foodlink, where we celebrate how it all began. Muffin Day represents the day in 1978 that Foodlink founder Tom Ferraro made a public plea for donated food to support Rochester’s local food pantries. The kind folks at Thomas’ English Muffins responded and Tom went to the factory to […]
Film screening draws 150+ Rochesterians to discuss hunger, local food system
If a few dozen people showed up to The Little Theatre on Wednesday night for a screening of a documentary about a somber topic — hunger and diet-related illness in America — event organizers likely wouldn’t have been too surprised. After all, the snow was blowing sideways, the roads were a slippery mess and the […]
Wegmans raises nearly $700K during Check Out Hunger campaign
The results are in for the 2019 Wegmans Check Out Hunger campaign! Thanks to the amazing work of Wegmans, their employees and their customers, $699,375 was raised for Foodlink during this fall’s campaign, which ran from Oct. 27 through Nov. 30. The total represents about a $15,000 increase over the previous year. Foodlink has counted […]