Summer Lunch Program Features Farm 2 School Activities

Where does your food come from?  Local school-aged kids participating in the Summer Lunch Program sponsored by the Gallatin Valley Food Bank will be exploring answers to this question in the upcoming weeks.  Volunteers of Gallatin Valley Farm to School will be leading the children in farm to school activities such as making butter, planting a bucket garden, and exploring the BOB, the Bozone...

Summer Lunch 2010

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) runs throughout the summer months providing FREE lunches to SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN.  The Gallatin Valley Food Bank is the local sponsor for the State Office of Public Instruction to provide this program in Gallatin County. This year there will be two new exciting additions to the program!  Last year a Campus Compact Volunteer designed a Summer...

Postal Food Drive 2010 RESULTS!

Join the rest of the nation in the largest one day food drive!   Letter carriers on Saturday, May 8th will be collecting non-perishable food donations along their routes for delivery to the Gallatin Valley Food Bank and the Headwaters Area Food Bank.  The 18th annual ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Food Drive is being held by our local letter carriers to combat hunger in our community.  Please...

Volunteer Appreciation Week

You inspire, you serve, you volunteer. National Volunteer Week embodies the energy and power volunteers evoke on a daily basis as they lead by example—not only encouraging the people they help, but motivating others to serve as well.  We all have strenghts and skills to share and volunteers form the backbone of our organization.  Together we accomplish great things!  We can not imagine US...

End Hunger in the Valley

In 2009, 1 in 9 people in Gallatin County accessed the resources of the Food Bank. Which means each of us personally knows someone who uses the Food Bank to support their family. And, while the need is growing and continuous throughout the year, donations do not follow suit.  January through June marks the slowest donation cycle for the Food Bank. Recognizing this, Wade and Susi Dokken have...