We were so pleased to celebrate our special volunteers during National Volunteer Week with our annual Volunteer Appreciation ceremony. With a baseball theme, we thanked our volunteers for stepping up to the plate to the tune of more than 16,500 volunteer hours in 2017, yielding an estimated $400,000 in reduced labor costs for the Food […]
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Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year, everyone! The Hunger Busters are back with a new team and a new resolve to help you with your Nutrition questions! I’m sure we can agree that 2017 was a trying year for all of us, with Hurricane Harvey affecting life in Southeast Texas well after the storm hit. We sincerely hope […]
OCI Beaumont Generously Shares $15,000 for Christmas Food Drive
We pay special tribute to OCI Beaumont for delivery of a truly generous $15,000 gift to energize our Share Your Christmas Food Drive. OCI has been a great seasonal partner in recent years, making large scale donations to help the Share Your Christmas drive make a significant impact on holiday season hunger relief. We are […]
Helping After Harvey – Our Holiday Food Drive
Businesses, churches, schools, and other organizations and individuals are invited to rally around Southeast Texans in need this holiday season through our annual Share Your Christmas Food Drive. This year, the drive will focus on the special theme of Help After Harvey. Help us gather food and funds that can bring hunger relief to tens of thousands of […]
Relief Support for Hurricane Harvey and How You Can Add to It
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we are restoring basic operations at the Food Bank and transitioning back to a model of sharing food and water with our partner distribution agencies, especially those engaged in any ongoing disaster relief, as well as direct distributions in the form of Mobile Pantries in communities spread around our […]
United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County Shows Its Support
We are thankful for the generosity of Southeast Texans that helped generate nearly $2 million of support for United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County. That geneorsity in turn comes to agencies like us. We are delighted to be among the agencies receiving generous support for our programs in 2017 – 2018. Great job […]
Senior Food Box Program Enrollments Under Way
The Southeast Texas Food Bank has been selected as a contractor for the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program (Senior Food Box Program) to distribute 2,000 boxes of food to qualifying seniors each month. We are currently engaged in the enrollment process to identify up to 2,000 qualifying seniors and to develop a waiting list of seniors […]
Area Summer Feeding Programs for Children are Launching
With the advent of summer, numerous local partners are stepping into the void created by the end of the school year to feed children whose families rely heavily on federal feeding programs in school. Children 18 and under can be fed for free during much of the summer at schools, parks, recreation centers, and housing complexes […]
25th Anniversary of Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Coming May 13, 2017
We are grateful to partner once again with the National Association of Letter Carriers on the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive scheduled for Saturday, May 13. This year’s edition will be the 25th Anniversary of this annual largest single day nationwide food drive. Simply leave a bag of non-perishable food at your mail box on May […]
Retail Pickup Program Boosted by $18,900 Grant from Walmart Foundation
We are pleased to announce that upon completion of the final six months of an 18-month grant cycle with the Walmart Foundation, we were among 33 food banks that received a grant in the amount of $18,900 in recognition of exceeding six percent growth in the amount of donated product reclaimed from national chain retailers for distribution to the […]