Charlee Vance and Sarah Ozuna from the Spay Neuter Network visit the Community Food Bank twice a week to offer their organization's pet services to our clients. According to Sarah, "Our program is free to anyone living in the city of Fort Worth as long as they are residents. Cats and dogs are free. We will also microchip them and rabbis vaccinate them as part of the package." Charlee mentioned…
When Hope Fort Worth learned about a family that was about to have their kids taken away from the home because their house was too hot, they reached out to us to see if we had an air conditioner that we could donate. Thankfully, we did! A member of Hope Fort Worth's board shared, "The Community Food Bank has done a wonderful thing here because we are trying to keep…
During these COVID-19 days, the Community Food Bank is more grateful than ever for the teams of volunteers who serve on our food pantry line. On Wednesday of this week, a church group played a significant role in helping us feed families and feed hope. We had the opportunity to interview two elders who are missionaries with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Elder John (left), who…
Significant repairs to the Community Food Bank's roof are underway all this week. The much-needed reroofing is being done by Sanchez & Son Roofing, which has been installing new roofs on North Texas homes and businesses for over 20 years. Max, the son in Sanchez & Son shared the following description of the roofing project: "We are doing a full tear-off and reinstall of TPO roofing. Right now, it has…
Thanks to both the Texas Rangers and our regular team from Amazon for serving our clients on both of the food lines we had running today at the Community Food Bank. In addition to our regular food pantry line, we also had a line of USDA food products delivered by the Tarrant Area Food Bank, which happens on the 4th Wednesday of each month. Bethany Holuv, the Assistant for the…
Thank you to the faculty and staff of the All Saints' Episcopal School for spending a hot afternoon sorting through school supplies at the Community Food Bank. James Venhaus, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, shared about the school's day of service: "We came up with the idea a few years ago that in addition to school in-service we should do out-service and get out into the community and do…
Thank you to Pacific Dental Services (PDS) for bringing 15 volunteers to the Community Food Bank on Saturday, August 17. Their service was part of the company's Smile Generation Service Day. Tammy Spicer is the Cash & Treasury Manager for PDS, where she has been employed for 13 years. She shared, "We have a serve day every year in which dental offices give back and do pro bono dentistry work.…
The Community Food Bank hosted its annual School Supplies Giveaway on Saturday, August 10. Rev. Karen Harris, the Community Food Bank's Executive Coordinator shared the following about the event: "Today, the Community Food Bank is passing out school supplies to parents who preregistered prior to today. We are glad to say that this year we are using supplies from the Fort Worth ISD list of school supplies and are able to…
Thank you to Amazon for once again serving at the Community Food Bank during one of our busiest days when we have two food lines available to the public. One of the volunteers today was Stacy Johnson, who has served at the Community Food Bank with Amazon at least once a month throughout 2019. She is an FC Associate 1 with Amazon, which she describes this way: "If you order something,…
For the first time in our history, our clients were served by three banks on a single day: The Community Food Bank, The Tarrant Area Food Bank, and Chase Bank! Thank you to the 17 managers of local Chase banks for serving on both our regular food pantry line and on the TAFB's mobile pantry line. Reggie Rush, an Executive Director with Chase in Fort Worth, shared that many of…