The GLFB announced the results of our 2009-2010 Envelope Campaign last week at the Lansing City Market.  A huge thanks goes out to our community for donating over $1 million to address emergency food relief and sustainable food systems in the greater Lansing area.

 

Read more: Envelope Campaign Raises Over $1M

Thanks to the Rotary Club of Lansing Foundation! The money was raised during the Rotary Club of Lansing Foundation’s 2009 Charity Golf Outing this fall at Timber Ridge Golf Course.  The funds will help the GLFB purchase a much-needed food delivery truck to improve our services.

Read more: Rotary Club of Lansing Donates $15,000 to the Greater Lansing Food Bank!

As an alternative to "Black Friday," local bookstore EVERYbody Reads encouraged cusotmers to donate to the Greater Lansing Food Bank.  So far, the effort has already raised $600.  It's not too late to donate now!

Read more: EVERYbody Reads: We Care Friday

The Capital Area Community Food Profile was prepared by the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University.

You can view the file here.

Important Announcement to the Community

• GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK Envelope Campaign results of 2009-2010!
• OVER $1 million donated from the community, to the community!
• Innovative new programs to feed the hungry in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties

Press Conference and Public Announcement:

This tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.

at the Lansing City Market in downtown Lansing.

• The record breaking results of the recently concluded fund raising campaign

• A recognition of community partners in this campaign

Read more: Community and Media Advisory

Lansing, Michigan – June 10, 2010 – At an early afternoon ceremony at the front entrance to the Kellogg Center on the Michigan State University campus, representatives of the Greater Lansing Food Bank introduced its new Food Movers vehicle to the community and publicly thanked two community organizations for their funding support that lead to the purchase of the new vehicle. Terry Link, Executive Director, welcomed the attendees and explained that the Greater Lansing Food Bank Food Movers program “rescues” more than 650,000 pounds of perfectly good food each year that has been prepared in restaurants, cafeterias, dormitories, and other locations, or is perishable; that has not been served, and that otherwise would be thrown away. It then delivers this food to human service agencies, community kitchens, subsidized housing, shelters and other programs where there are food needs. The new vehicle will replace a 1994 vehicle which has been providing these services for Ingham, Eaton and Clinton county communities.

Read more: New Vehicle For Food Movers!

We've made scheduling volunteer time a breeze! 

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Read more: Volunteering Made Easy

This month the Greater Lansing Food Bank, along with its 20-year partner, the Lansing State Journal, launched its annual holiday envelope campaign.

WKAR is collecting food for the Greater Lansing Food Bank in the south lobby of the Communication Arts Building at MSU, starting November 2 through December 15. Anyone is welcome to drop food off. More details HERE.

Capital Blues Society hosted the 6th Annual "Breakin' Bread with the Blues", Sunday November, 22, at the Green Door in Lansing.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is providing the Greater Lansing Food Bank with a $10,000 grant to support our operations.

This support is greatly appreciated to sustain our work to feed the hungry as our Envelope Campaign gets underway.

Read about GLFB Board member Roy Saper's rooftop donation garden and more in the January issue of For Member's Only, the official publication of the Professional Picture Framers Association. With permission from the Professional Picture Framers Association (PPFA), Jackson, Mich.

Greening of the Great Lakes, Episode 65: Check it out!

Greater Lansing Food Bank Takes Lease on Newer, Bigger Space

The Greater Lansing Food Bank is moving into a new building that will give them much-needed space for food distribution and its other programs.

CB Richard Ellis/Martin negotiated a lease for the food bank on a 5,631-square-foot building at 919 Filley St. in Lansing.

Executive Director Terry Link says the new space will allow the food bank to house all of its programs under one roof.

“This will make us more effective with the resources we have,” Link says. “We were crunched in space and our various programs were not under the same roof. It made communications a little more difficult.”

The food bank does not provide meals directly to individuals, but instead distributes food to a network of food pantries in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties. Link estimates their services touch 70,000 people annually and help to move 3 million pounds of food.

Read more: Capital Gains: GLFB New Space

This exciting new education collaborative offers an array of gardening education opportunities, as well as other food-related events.  Check out the calendars at local businesses, or click here to see the calendar online.