Food Bank Receives Grant To Help Support Youth Programs in Sunbury, PA

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK RECEIVES $6,000 GRANT TO SUPPORT YOUTH PROGRAMS IN SUNBURY, PA

Grant awarded by Sunbury Area Community Foundation, of the Central Susquehanna Community Foundation

HARRISBURG, PA, October 14, 2020– The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank recently received a grant of $6,000 from the Sunbury Area Community Foundation, of the Central Susquehanna Community Foundation to support youth programs throughout the Sunbury region.

“We are incredibly thankful to the Sunbury Area Community Foundation for their gift to the Food Bank,” said Joe Arthur, executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank.  “Their gift is an inspiring example of a community foundation stepping up to help ensure that nobody in Central Pennsylvania goes hungry.  Support like this makes all the difference, especially in a time when families are facing so much economic uncertainty in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.”

In the Sunbury region, the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank works with the Shikellamy, Selinsgrove, and Line Mountain school districts to facilitate their BackPack programs, in which children receive backpacks filled with individual servings of healthy non-perishable food for weekends and holidays.  In addition, the Regional Engagement Center offers a Kids Café program, providing after school meals to children in the Selinsgrove School District.  Over the past year, these programs have distributed more than 121,000 pounds of food to more than 5,000 children in need in the Sunbury area.  With the help of this grant, the Food Bank will work to reach more families and children in need in an area where hunger is prevalent.  The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank knows that when a child is hungry, the entire family is likely hungry as well.

The Sunbury Area Community Foundation (SACF) was created from the sale of the Sunbury Community Hospital in 2005 as the Sunbury Area Health Foundation to continue to provide for charitable healthcare needs in the Sunbury region. Today the expanded mission of the SACF is helping to meet a multitude of charitable needs for residents of the Sunbury area. For more information visit www.csgiving.org.

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About Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce hunger in 27 counties across Pennsylvania. By working with more than 1,000 local agencies and partner programs, the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank serves 200,000 people in need every month. For more information on the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and its mission to reduce hunger in Pennsylvania, visit centralpafoodbank.org or call 717-564-1700.