Thank you, San Antonio Junior Forum! Thanks to our friends at the San Antonio Junior Forum, the San Antonio Food Bank was awarded $5,000 in support of our BackPack Program. The program provides children residing in food insecure households with food packs filled with nutritious food that is child [...]
The San Antonio Missions Baseball Club and Circle K are partnering with the San Antonio Food Bank to host food drives at Nelson Wolff Stadium this summer to provide aid to the San Antonio community. During the 2021 season, the three parties hosted five food drives.
. Thank You To Everyone Who Joined The San Antonio Food Bank At Our Runway Event! On Thursday, April 13, fashionable Hunger Fighters joined us for an evening of fashion and philanthropy. We hope everyone enjoyed the fashion show, international cuisine, silent auction, raffle, wine pull, cocktails, [...]
Sylvia's Story April 2023 “After the change in SNAP, I am now getting only $37 a month to supplement food for my family.” This past March, nearly 16 million households in America had a reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, [...]
Newish downtown-area drinkery La Ruina Ron y Mas will hold a one-night charity event to benefit the San Antonio Food Bank on Monday, March 27. At the heart of the fundraiser will be one of the most labor-intensive cocktails known to bartenders: the Ramos Gin Fizz. The Ramos Gin Fizz Charity Classic will feature La [...]
Groceries are expensive, especially healthy organic vegetables and inflation hasn’t helped. It’s why this week in the Gardening with KSAT series we create a beginner organic veggie garden from seed. KSAT 12 teamed up with the San Antonio Food Bank’s Agricultural Initiatives program to plant seasonal vegetables like corn, beans, carrots, basil and squash.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed 69-year-old Longview resident Gary Rogers’ life in one unexpected way. As a SNAP recipient, the amount he received on his Lone Star card to buy groceries rose from a paltry $16 a month to $232, as part of a federal stimulus package.
The San Antonio food bank is a vital part of our community for so many families — and through various economic conditions and national policy changes — the food bank has to react accordingly.
The personal injury lawyers, Carabin Shaw is helping fight San Antonio hunger through a new Food & Fund Drive that will be benefiting the San Antonio Food Bank. Starting Thursday, the law firm will be accepting donations of non-perishable foods as well as monetary donations.
Millions of Americans will receive an extra blow to their bank account beginning March 1. The pandemic-era police allowing people to receive the max amount of SNAP benefits each month, has ended.
