Remember that agency survey we asked you to complete last fall and over the holidays as the first step in the Hunger in America Study? We got over 600 of them completed! That means we’re in really good shape to move on to the client survey portion of the study, which will provide us with [...]

Edit 11/20/2012: You can access the Agency Survey here. Questions on either of these issues may be directed to Elianna Bootzin at either eliannab@feedingamericawestmichigan.org or 616-389-6349. Agency Survey Coming to You in October from Westat As you may have seen in your August statement enclosure, Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank is participating in Hunger [...]

If your agency is based in Kent, Muskegon, or Ottawa County, and you distribute a client newsletter, consider including a piece like the following: Attention, Bridge Card holders: Double Up Food Bucks will be back at your area’s farmers’ markets starting in June. When you use your Bridge Card at a participating farmers’ market, the [...]

If you have an order scheduled with our main warehouse in Comstock Park but cannot get it as planned, please call our main phone line, 616-784-3250, to cancel or re-schedule as soon as possible.  Don’t ask for Agency Relations (or send an email that might not get seen for hours), simply give your message to [...]

We’d really love to see West Michigan information and referral services for food pantries get kicked up a notch, and one of your fellow agencies – Nonprofit Innovations, Inc. – has given us a great way to do that.  If your agency runs a public facing food program that gives people food or other grocery [...]