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The Idaho Foodbank is partnering up with Big Al’s for the 3rd Annual Summer Empty Bowls on National Ice Cream Day! This community event held at Big Al’s (1900 N. Eagle Road, Meridian) helps raise necessary funds for the 179,000 families and children The Foodbank serves monthly. Your sponsorship will provide necessary meals to the 1 in 8 Idahoans who struggle with hunger. Our goal is to raise enough for 12,000 meals at this event to help feed Idaho’s hungry.

This event is supporting our 3rd Annual Summer Empty Bowls by providing the bowls for the event!

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Volunteers from Joe Hall Ford and other local businesses will spend the day outside the Rosauer's entrance accepting donations from shoppers of cereal and peanut butter. In the last five years to date, they have collected over 9,000 boxes of cereal and over 4,000 pounds of peanut butter. The event is part of the Focus on Child Hunger that is held annually throughout the Northwest by local Ford dealerships.

People can donate “Moo Bucks” at Albertsons checkouts June 1-15. While it’s easy for people to donate canned and dry goods, fresh milk is much harder to donate because it’s perishable. Thus, even though food pantries report milk is one of the most requested items, it’s difficult for them to meet the demand. A donation to Moo Bucks help The Idaho Foodbank purchase and distribute dairy foods to clients and give them vouchers to redeem for milk.

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The Idaho Foodbank receives most of its food donations during the holiday season. City of Trees knew that this was where they could help. To shed light on this issue, City of Trees Real Estate committed to creating an event the entire community could rally around, and thus, "Thanksgiving in June" was born. The goal is to fill the City of Trees Real Estate moving truck as many times as possible over a two-day event, but also throughout the entire month of June.

Scheduled Events:

• June 3rd or 4th - City of Trees Real Estate Team Volunteering at The Idaho Foodbank
• June 15th - Big Jud’s - $1 per burger donated
• June 13th - COTRE Happy Hour – collecting donations
• June 29th + 30th - Fred Meyer’s Grocery Store Booth -- (Linder and Glenwood)

A link to make a cash donation to Thankgiving in June is listed below.

You can buy a Red Nose at any Walgreens for $2, and the money goes to the Red Nose Day Fund to end child poverty. Last year, the Red Nose Day Fund awarded The Idaho Foodbank $10,000 to support our Backpack and School Pantry programs!

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The second Saturday in May is the largest one-day food drive in the nation. So it is appropriately named Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Day. How is it possible? It occurs in more than 10,000 cities and towns, and the food is collected by those men and women carrying our mail across the country. As they deliver to postal customers, those customers get to do their part by filling their mailbag with non-perishable food donations.

Over the last 27 years, one billion pounds of food has been delivered by this drive which is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers. The letter carriers representing the NALC receive help from rural letter carriers, other postal employees and other volunteers. The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive has received a number of accolades over the years, including two Presidential Certificates of Achievement.

This event happens all over the valley. IFB will have 20 volunteers from TriState Memorial Hospital and HomeStreet Bank. They will assist us in cleaning the warehouse in preparation for our AIB Audit.

Internal event at Clearwater Paper, handled completely by Dan Mauer, Sr.

People can participate in two ways. First, every purchase of participating products (at Idaho stores, or online delivered to Idaho addresses) will contribute 10 cents to the program. Second, all Walmart customers can donate at the register when they check out, either at a store or online. All Fight Hunger, Spark Change funds raised in Idaho will go to The Idaho Foodbank.

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