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Community Harvest has made a focus of its strategic plan going forward to build agency capacity. In 2020, a special Feeding America grant made it possible to share over $300,000 with agencies to help them purchase food, equipment, and supplies for their distributions and outreach. We want to focus on getting more resources for agencies in a strategic way based on feedback, so we've created an agency survey that will guide us in this goal to make opportunities available to agencies that are relevant and in demand. The survey should be easy to complete and fairly fast, taking approximately 30...

Annual Shut-Down Community Harvest will be closed for its annual July shut-down beginning Monday, July 5, through Sunday, July 11. We will reopen with normal business hours on Monday, July 12. Agency Day With COVID in 2020, the food bank suspended its annual Agency Day, and we're happy to announce the 2021 dates with a fully online schedule! Agency Day is an annual required event for all active agencies that informs about food safety guidelines, updates on best practices, and educates about topics relevant to our organizations. This year, we're excited to have a session covering grants, community resources, available...

Community Harvest Food Bank will be starting a Partner Advisory Council with member agencies from all nine counties in our service region, and applications are available to member agencies in good standing. The Partner Advisory Council is a coalition of network partners who serve as advisors to Community Harvest Food Bank (CHFB). In addition, the Council provides practical input and feedback on CHFB plans to strengthen network capacity to better meet the hunger need in the community. The Council will give voice to the whole network and guide CHFB in setting goals and developing solutions that benefit all our agency partners....

Please Note: We are updating our Community Cupboard pantry hours in order to expand voucher access to those who are unable to come during the daytime hours. Monday through Thursday hours will remain the same. Friday will be open later. Effective immediately, the new hours will be: Monday - Thursday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Clients must arrive at least 1 hour before closing to shop) Friday: 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM (Clients must arrive at least 1 hour before closing to shop) Saturday: Closed Sunday: Closed