Need Your Support for Holidays Without Hunger
The holiday season brings togetherness, celebration and gift giving, which can be both joyful and stressful. Imagine if your primary stressor wasn’t holiday shopping, but whether you were able to feed your family. During the winter break, many children who rely on...
Looking at the Face of Hunger
Recently our Director of Development, Brandon Dowdy, visited one of our mobile pantries and saw something that he said “will stick with me forever.” Dowdy saw a young boy who just finished going through a Meals of Hope mobile pantry line with his mother and seemed...
The Food Stamp Challenge Experience
Several community leaders participated in last weekend’s Food Stamp Challenge, which replicated the weekend food insecurity many children experience when school lunches are not available. Participants were asked to spend $14.93 on groceries for seven meals (Friday...
Community Leaders Set to Participate in Food Stamp Challenge
The Food Stamp Challenge, which takes place this weekend, is designed to replicate what many children experience every weekend, when Friday lunch is their last complete meal until they return to school Monday morning. Many teachers do not test students on Mondays, as...
The Start of Something Special
Meals of Hope President/CEO Stephen Popper started the organization after his mother heard of school children in Haiti having difficulty learning because they did not have enough food. She knew of a food packing program in the Midwest and wanted to know if her son...
Revisiting Hurricane Irma
Nearly a year after Hurricane Irma hit Southwest Florida on September 10, 2017, Meals of Hope still provides services to families whose homes were damaged and individuals who lost jobs and need additional support services. In the eight months prior to Irma, Meals of...
50 Millionth Meal Packed at Naples High
Meals of Hope held its first packing event at Naples High School in 2007, where 500 people packed 135,000 meals. Approximately 11 years later, on Friday, Sept. 7, the Naples High School hosted another chapter in Meals of Hope history when the Student Government...
We Broke a Guinness World Record!
Meals of Hope broke a Guinness World Record for the “most cereal boxes toppled in a domino fashion” by knocking over 3,913 boxes on Saturday, September 1, at Grow Church in Naples. The event kicked off our September Hunger Action Month activities. The 3,913 number was...
Our 5th Annual Holidays Without Hunger Packing Event Was a Great Success!
Thank you to all the volunteers who gathered at The Ritz-Carlton Naples Beach Hotel on December 16, 2017 and at the Lee County Civic Center on December 23, 2017. The combined efforts of more than 3,000 total volunteers made our 5th Annual Holidays Without Hunger...
Boys and Girls Club of Collier County Kicks off Meals of Hope’s 3rd Annual Holidays Without Hunger Meal Packing Event
Fifty kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County packed 20,488 meals as a Christmas in July kickoff event for Meals of Hope’s fifth annual Holidays Without Hunger packing event. The 2017 event were held on December 16th at The Ritz-Carlton Naples Beach Hotel...
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