Charles Thomas came to Bath in 2000 a broken man. After 30 years of drug abuse, trouble keeping jobs, and run-ins with the law, he had no choice but to make a change. He was at a Veterans Affairs facility in Pennsylvania when a fellow veteran sang praises...
The Food Bank of the Southern Tier has received $25,000 from Ithaca’s Park Foundation to support its work in addressing hunger in Tompkins County. This reflects the Foundation’s recognition of the vital role that food can play as a foundation for justice work and...
In the early 1990s, Rick and Karen Reisinger just wanted to grow enough apples to pay the taxes on their expansive hillside property above Watkins Glen. Back then, Karen was a personnel manager at an architectural firm and Rick managed Cornell’s research...
Richard A. Ball, Commissioner of New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, visited the Food Bank of the Southern Tier Wednesday, September 25 in recognition of Hunger Action Month. Commissioner Ball, local legislators and other food system...
Did you know you can volunteer to harvest apples for the Food Bank, helping both local farmers and people struggling with food insecurity?Farmers often find themselves with surplus or unmarketable produce, so we send volunteers to local farms to glean this...
The Ithaca-based Triad Foundation is continuing its long-term support for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier.A recent $20,000 grant will provide general operating support for the Food Bank’s programs. In 2018, the Food Bank distributed 9.5 million meals...
On June 18th, ten Steuben County residents graduated from the Food Bank’s Speakers Bureau in Bath and spoke in front of an audience of about 90 community members. The speakers shared their stories about poverty, homelessness, addiction, domestic violence,...
Dear Friends,I was honored to attend the graduation ceremony for our third Speakers Bureau class in Bath this summer. These events are alwaysinspiring as we bear witness to the graduates’ powerful stories of poverty, trauma and incredible resilience. One...
In the Southern Tier, more than 72,000 of our neighbors struggle with hunger and may not know where they’ll find their next meal. Hunger affects many people in our region, including those who work full-time jobs, disabled individuals, seniors and children....
Josephine Burrell has been advocating for low-income housing for more than half her 77 years. And now, she wants to build low-income homes. Tiny homes. Homes that people with low-to-moderate incomes can own, afford and take pride in maintaining.“It’s not...