Welcome to River Bend Foodbank!
Last year the foodbank distributed over 6.3 million pounds of surplus food to our 300 member agencies that serve the hungry in 22 counties in Iowa and Illlinois, saving our member agencies a collective $5 million.
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 Landmark New Study Reveals an Unprecedented Number of Quad City Families Seeking Emergency Food AssistanceClick Here For More!, Local Hunger Study Highlights, Hunger Study Local Profile |
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A Big Thank You! Hunt and Diane Harris for sponsoring the Moline Mobile Food Pantry and making a huge impact with a sponsorship for 9 more distributions! That’s a total of about 90,000 meals where it’s most needed! Thanks to Modern Woodman and its Employees participating in the Employee Charity Pledge Plan for a donation of $6,000 that we can put towards the Backpack Program! Cargill matches its customer and employee donations and raise an incredible $19,000 to help End Hunger. Click here for photo in the Food Drive/Events set. Grainger also showed its support for the mission of the Foodbank with a check for $5,000. We are so grateful for every single one of our supporters without whom we could not do the work we do. Click here for photo in the Food Drives/Events Set. Latest Food Drives
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Backpack Program Hunger Advocate
River Bend Foodbank salutes the school personnel who coordinate the Backpack Program at their schools. These individuals have volunteered to their time to make sure that the kids in need at their school receive food provided by the Foodbank to take home on every weekend during the school year. It is because of their efforts that the Backpack Program is an extremely cost-effective way to provide meals to children who may not get enough nutritious food to eat on the weekends. They are true Hunger Advocates. We also salute the principals of these schools who have been so supportive and appreciative of this program.
For complete list of Backpack Program Hunger Advocates, please click here.
Spotlight on Backpack Program Hunger Advocate:
Sue Ickes
| School: | Bowlesberg Elementary and Hillcrest Elemetary, East Moline |
| Position: | School Nurse for 17 years |
| Enrollment | Hillcrest—331 Children Participating in Program 26 |
| District: | Rock Island School District |
| Principal Hillcrest: | Jim O’Brien |
| Principal Bowlesberg: | Cathy Baumgartner |
Years Coordinating Backpack Program at my school: 3
Why I volunteer to do this at my school:“As a nurse, I know the importance of nutrition. When a child is hungry he doesn’t feel good, is prone to illness, and certainly can’t focus on school and learning. I grew up on a farm and recall as a child my dad telling us, “You may not have a lot of things but you will never go hungry.” I never knew hunger as a child. In a country of such affluence and waste it is unconscionable for us to have hungry children! I will do whatever I can to ensure the students at my schools do not go to bed hungry.”
