Mission: In late 2009 the Louisiana State Government cut Food Bank financing by 4.5 million dollars. As a small food pantry this blog was created to spotlight our community and show the direct effects from such a harsh budget cut.

We work at the Community Center of St Bernard, a food pantry and Community Center 10 minutes outside of New Orleans. We feed around 70 families a day and the number of new people we serve keeps growing. The spiraling economy coupled with the state budget cut to Second Harvest has created empty shelves for needy families.

More people + less food = a big problem.

Bethany Garfield

Food Pantry Coordinator

Billy Brown

Digital Arts Service Corps (AmeriCorps for Geeks)

The following organizations are all collecting food for our pantry to supplement the reduction from our local food bank. We love them!

Nola Eats at the Alternative Media Expo

Snake and Jakes

Cold Stone Creamery

Organizing for America: LA

Curves

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    March 10, 2010
    We Can End This One of the biggest hinders to the issue of hunger in America is awareness and one of the best ways to overcome that is through this giant hub of communication we call the internet. An organization that is doing a great job at tackling the issue of hunger by using social media and the internet is WeCanEndThis.com. The We Can End This campaign is a year long initiative to really start the conversation about hunger in America and produce some tangible results. Their first project is a virtual canned food drive on their website. Anyone can go onto their website and donate a digital can of food to the state of their choice and then on March 18, the 10 states with the most digital cans will win a truckload of food. If Louisiana wins our food bank will receive a truckload of food, some of which will be given to our food pantry with the end result of us giving out more food to needy Louisianans! Food that we desperately need right now since all of the holiday food donations are drying up. Currently Louisiana isn’t doing so hot, so if your from the Big Easy or anywhere in Louisiana, please donate a can to our state! I’m very excited for initiatives like We Can End This and I look forward to seeing the other projects their campaign produces throughout the year.

    We Can End This

    One of the biggest hinders to the issue of hunger in America is awareness and one of the best ways to overcome that is through this giant hub of communication we call the internet. An organization that is doing a great job at tackling the issue of hunger by using social media and the internet is WeCanEndThis.com. The We Can End This campaign is a year long initiative to really start the conversation about hunger in America and produce some tangible results. Their first project is a virtual canned food drive on their website. Anyone can go onto their website and donate a digital can of food to the state of their choice and then on March 18, the 10 states with the most digital cans will win a truckload of food. If Louisiana wins our food bank will receive a truckload of food, some of which will be given to our food pantry with the end result of us giving out more food to needy Louisianans! Food that we desperately need right now since all of the holiday food donations are drying up. Currently Louisiana isn’t doing so hot, so if your from the Big Easy or anywhere in Louisiana, please donate a can to our state!

    I’m very excited for initiatives like We Can End This and I look forward to seeing the other projects their campaign produces throughout the year.

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