Hoosiers Helping Hoosiers
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During the month of February, Indiana state employees are participating in the Hoosiers Helping Hoosiers food drive to benefit Indiana residents in need. The Office of First Lady Cheri Daniels sponsors this annual food.
Food may be dropped off at the following local state agencies collecting for Tri-State Food Bank:
- Indiana Department of Child Services
- Indiana Department of Revenue
- Indiana Department of Transportation
- Evansville Children Psychiatric Children's Center
Horses Against Hunger
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Horses against Hunger Foundation helps Tri-State Food Bank provide meals through a gift of $1,000 and 172 pounds.
Hunter Chancellor founded Horses against Hunger in 2011. This gift will provide approximately 8,998 meals for people needing food assistance. Learn more about this foundation at http://horsesagainsthunger.org/Home.html
Vanderburgh Community Foundation
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The Vanderburgh Community Foundation awards Tri-State Food Bank $9,850
to help support the Weekend BackPack-Food for Kids program. $9,704 came from the Friends of Vanderburgh County and $146 from the Fund for Human Services of Vanderburgh County. The award was presented January 12 at the Vanderburgh Community Foundation's annual Breakfast of Community Champions. The BackPack program targeting schoolchildren at risk of hunger.
NewsMakers
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View Video on WNIN Newsmakers The Tri-State Food Bank feeds area hungry.
Poverty Tour
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If you missed Travis Smiley's Poverty Tour, a week-long look at poverty, click the following lines to view.
Part 1: Tavis begins this week of shows on poverty in the U.S. with Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West, who also took part in this past summer's 18-city, 11-state tour.
Part 2: of the week's Poverty Tour shows, Tavis talks with Vicki B. Escarra, CEO of Feeding America. The president-CEO of Feeding America shares her concerns about the poverty crisis facing women and children in the U.S.
Part 3: Tavis continues his discussion on poverty in America with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who explains the correlation between health and poverty.
Part 4: of this special series on poverty, Tavis talks with the director of Columbia's Earth Institute and co-founder of Millennium Promise Alliance Jeffrey Sachs.
Part 5: In the last night of discussions on poverty in America, Tavis talks with Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners magazine and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Faith.