Schools & local potters provide bowls, restaurants provide soup Claire Anderson photo SANTA MARIA, Calif. – The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is holding one of its biggest fundraisers today, Empty Bowls Santa Maria, when community members come out for soup served in a hand-crafted bowls that they get to take home. The bowls come […]
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2017 SAVE THE DATE: 16th Annual Santa Maria Empty Bowls, October 25, 2017. Custom ceramic bowls are ready, tasty soup committed and great raffle items secured for the 14th Annual Empty Bowls event slated for Wednesday, Oct. 28. at the Santa Maria Fairpark. Although tickets for the 11:30 a.m. seating are virtually gone, the public […]
Each week we meet up with Katie Hershfelt of Cultivate Events as she chats with farmers, chefs and shoppers at the Santa Barbara Certified Farmers’ Market. This week, she spoke with Erik Talkin, CEO of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County and Alexa Senter, who coordinates the Food Bank’s Backyard Bounty program about the Food Action Plan. According to […]
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is part of a movement of Empty Bowls fundraiser events employed by food banks nationwide, and for more than a decade, the organization has filled bowls in Santa Barbara, Lompoc, and Santa Maria. This year’s Empty Bowls is the 14th annual event in Santa Maria and helps raise funds […]
In just three minutes, Keith Terry convinced a Goleta crowd that his nonprofit YStrive for Youth, Inc. deserved $15,000 to further its mission. Terry, the executive director of YStrive, won the top prize at the Social Venture Partners Santa Barbara Fast Pitch Thursday night. He himself benefited from the type of program he now runs […]
Keynote speaker and honorable first district supervisor Salud Carbajal discussed the quality of our food distribution system, what it means when you eat “bad” food, and more at the Partner’s Summit at the Pacifica Graduate Institute on September 24th. Highlights from Salud Carbajal’s speech: “Simply put, bad food is bad for our health, bad for […]
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Without the access to free and reduced school lunches, summer is the hungriest time of year for many children. The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County set out to end this with its monthlong campaign, End Summer Hunger. The goal was to raise $50,000 to go towards the Picnic in the Park Program, a country-wide program […]
Read More… from SB Seasons: FOODBANK RAISES $75K TO END SUMMER HUNGER
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County raised $75,000 during “End Summer Hunger,” its month-long campaign to raise $50,000 to help feed the most at-risk school-age children during the summer months. Thanks to a generous anonymous pledge, the community responded and the campaign surpassed its goal by $25,000. Campaign funding will support the Foodbank’s county-wide Picnic in the […]
Read More… from Noozhawk: With $75,000 in Donations, Foodbank Aims to Close Summer Hunger Gap
School is almost out for the summer. For many kids that means, vacations and time at the beach. For some children, summer means hunger pains from lack of food. The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County has launched a new campaign to end summer hunger. One in five kids are at risk of hunger in Santa […]
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Foxen Canyon Wineries Hold Food Drive For County Food Bank From Los Olivos to the Santa Maria Valley, the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail stretches for miles, and in hopes of bringing in more customers the wineries, they are holding a special event. Tim Snider, of Fess Parker Winery, said, “What we’re trying to do is […]
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