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A place where stocks of food, typically basic provisions and non-perishable items, are supplied free of charge to people in need.
‘Streetlight also offers an art room, a food bank and drop-in hours.’
‘Now entering its sixth season, the food bank offers one-time emergency grocery assistance to those in a tight financial position.’
‘The Nunavut food bank is expanding its reach by including outlying communities in its second annual general meeting on Sunday.’
‘Please do those food drives through your local food bank.’
‘Running the food bank each month costs about $1,300, Komnick said.’
‘When guests arrive, they can drop their cans into a barrel, and you can make a donation to your local food bank - just in time for the holiday season.’
‘The food bank not only works for the greater Pittsburgh community but also works in it by reclaiming a brownfield site.’
‘Work on things to make life easier for students like free flu shots, the food bank and microwaves around campus.’
‘Some of these same farmers have themselves provided potatoes to the food bank for years.’
‘Instead, the long lines are forming across the railroad tracks at the nonprofit food bank, Community Services Agency.’
‘She said that corporations would view a student food bank differently than a community food bank.’
‘Work at a community food bank or soup kitchen as a family.’
‘They build low-income housing, run literacy classes, sponsor a food bank, and run emergency shelters and a childcare center.’
‘Our local church says their food bank empties out monthly.’
‘Oregon's whitefish trawl now sorts and counts salmon by-catch on the dock and freezes them for a local food bank.’
‘At present we are involved in a food bank, a soup kitchen and twice a month we do a street run.’
‘Like the drop-in centre for street kids, the community centre has a variety of programs, including a food bank and clothing for the poor.’
‘If you're overwhelmed with produce and cut flowers, take some to your local food bank, shelter or soup kitchen.’
‘Most recently, she has been volunteering for the campus food bank and at a local bakery, which provides meaningful work for people with special needs.’
‘If produce can't be sold from the warehouse it is given to the food bank; if inedible, it's composted.’