Foodbank in the News

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians presented the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County with a $150,000 donation Tuesday to help the nonprofit expand its services in Goleta. The check presentation occurred during a volunteer event at the group’s Santa Maria facility, where members of the Chumash Fire Department and Team Chumash volunteers bagged 650 meals for local community members in need.

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SANTA YNEZ, Calif.– The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians donated $150,000 to the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County to expand their services in Goleta during a volunteer event Tuesday. The Chumash Fire Department and Chumash volunteers packaged 650 meals at the foodbank’s Santa Maria warehouse for community members in need before presenting the donation.

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Now, Fill the Foodbank is hosted twice a year where people will drive up to a donation spot—in North or South County—volunteers unload the car, and donors go on their way. The nonprofit hosted its third Fill the Foodbank drive on Nov. 19 and brought in about 5,000 pounds of food and 76 turkeys countywide as of Nov. 21, far from its goal of 40,000 pounds of food and 3,000 turkeys, she said. Community members can still drop off food at the organization’s locations in both North and South County if they’d like to support December holiday food needs.

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Community leaders from across Southern California stopped by the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s warehouse in Santa Maria for a massive donation on Wednesday. But it wasn’t all about food.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Anyone who donated a can of food got to see the UC Santa barbara Gauchos basketball game for free on Wednesday night. Families just dropped their donations near the door of the Thunderdome before the Beach Classic Men’s Basketball Tournament.

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Although the Santa Barbara County Foodbank’s holiday food distribution started at 10:30 a.m., it was an early morning for hundreds of residents in Santa Maria. “Our staff got here around 6:30 and talked to the people already waiting in their cars with their kids sleeping in the car who had arrived at five in the morning,” said Judith Smith-Meyer, the spokesperson for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. The food bank was expecting around 500 families, but the line of cars was beyond that number.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – As many across the nation prepare for Thanksgiving Day, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is seeing a record number of locals struggling for food. In the latest census, senior communications manager Judith Smith-Meyer says the foodbank reported a staggering 111,000 “unduplicated individuals” turning to the organization for food.

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Santa Maria area residents lined up in cars Saturday for a drive-thru food collection and ended up donating 1,500 pounds of nonperishable food items, plus 32 turkeys, to help needy families celebrate Thanksgiving.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – As many across the nation prepare for Thanksgiving Day, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is seeing a record number of locals struggling for food.

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