Lasell College Food Service Helps Out Newton Food Pantry

Since December, volunteers from Lasell's Food Service vendor Sodexo have transported food items to the Centre Street Food Pantry in Newton.

NewTV 'Likes' to Help Others

This holiday season, NewTV will be running an online promotional campaign through the month of December to help raise money for the Newton Food Pantry and Newton Community Service Center.

Newton Food Pantry Gets Funding from Walk for Hunger

Project Bread awards more than $78,000 raised in the Walk for Hunger.

  This is an edited version of a press release from Project Bread:  Project Bread, a leading Massachusetts antihunger organization, has awarded $78,700 in grants to emergency food programs throughout the west-of-Boston rea, through funds raised by the 44th annual Walk for Hunger. The grants will support programs such as food pantries, schools, farms, food banks, food salvage programs, and other community organizations providing hunger relief. More than 43,000 supporters walked to raise money to help the hungry. In the west-of-Boston area, 22 different agencies will benefit from these grants. Emergency food programs are a vital resource for people who struggle with hunger, which an estimated 750,000 people in Massachusetts experience. Last …

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