Amazing things happen when our community comes together in support of a common goal!Thanks to the creative energy of one of our long-time corporate partners, Mengel Metzger Barr & Company, 15 businesses visited our warehouse in the spirit of camaraderie and...
Every year, Doug Mugglin of Corning donates his time to the Food Bank as a member of the Tour de Keuka bike ride planning committee and the Corning Incorporated Foundation makes a gift to the Food Bank on his behalf through its Dollars for Doers...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For a second year, the Community Care Fund of the United Way of Tompkins County will help the Food Bank of the Southern Tier deliver greatly needed nutritional support to residents of Tompkins County. A $4,000 grant will help the Food Bank provide...