As many as 1 in 3 children in Massachusetts experience food insecurity. Summer is a particularly difficult time for families facing hunger, as children and teens lose the free meals they receive when school is in session. Our Growing Healthy Futures campaign supports GBFB’s commitment to distributing nutritious food all summer long, so kids and families continue to grow, learn, and thrive.
With recent funding cuts to federal food access programs, more families will turn to GBFB’s hunger relief network to fee their families. Your support is crucial to ensuring we can provide our distribution network of 600 hunger-relief agency partners with enough healthy food to meet the rising need this summer and throughout the year.
Your donations will support feeding children across our network via partners and programs like:
- Mobile Markets for Sudents – The Lawrence Public School system keeps their GBFB Mobile Market open during the summer to ensure children and their families have continued access to healthy food while school is out for the summer.
- Food Pantries – Local food pantries, and other feeding programs serve families yearround. Many of our partners provide options like special snack packs to keep kids nourished during while out of school.
- Family Meal Boxes – When agency partners are impacted byb staffing or volunteer shortages, Family Meal Boxes provide an uncomplicated solution for immediate grab-and-go distributions or drive-through distributions. Each box contains enough shelf-stable healthy food for approximately 26 meals.
