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Market in Newtown to bring dietary needs, cultural preferences, household priorities: All Faiths Food Bank: Tampa Bay 28 – Jan. 23, 2026

A pilot “grocery-style-shopping” is opening up in the Newton neighborhood of Sarasota, All Faiths Food Bank announced Friday.

Recent grants support All Faiths Food Bank: Patch – Jan. 20, 2026

All Faiths Food Bank recently received significant gifts from multiple funders in support of its work to end hunger.

Season of Sharing helps with food crisis, unique challenges in DeSoto: Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Jan. 16, 2026

Times were already tight this past year when a persistent eye infection kept Eureka Wiley from being able to go to work. This summer for the first time, Eureka turned to the DeSoto County Food and Resource Center in Arcadia, run by All Faiths Food Bank, for help with food.

HCA Healthcare Foundation gives $25K grant to All Faiths Food Bank: Florida Weekly – Jan 15. 2026

HCA Florida Healthcare has announced that the HCA Healthcare Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to All Faiths Food Bank to support its mission of providing healthy solutions to end hunger in our community as part of its Community Catalyst Grant Program.

A phil­an­thropic boost for All Faiths Food Bank: Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Dec. 23, 2025

The longest gov­ern­ment shut­down in U.S. his­tory las­ted 43 days but its effects will con­tinue to ripple through the com­munity as fam­il­ies struggle to regain sta­bil­ity. In Sara­sota, attor­ney and busi­ness­man Hugh Cul­ver­house Jr. has donated $100,000 to All Faiths Food Bank to help address the demand for food and basic assist­ance.

GUEST COLUMN: Food bank keep­ing Sun­coast sup­por­ted: Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Dec. 23, 2025

Hun­ger has always been present in Sara­sota and DeSoto counties, but the chal­lenges of the last few years have brought upon an unpre­ced­en­ted need.

Grants support All Faiths Food Bank’s ‘ThankFULL’ campaign: Patch – Dec.16, 2025

As community members continue to contend with soaring living costs — on top of devastating federal cuts to food and health assistance programs — All Faiths Food Banks is grateful to the individuals, foundation and corporate donors who gave generously to its ThankFULL campaign.

Publix Charities grants to support hunger relief efforts in Sarasota and Arcadia: Patch – Dec. 9, 2025

In an effort to address hunger in Sarasota and DeSoto counties, Publix Super Markets Charities has awarded two significant grants to All Faiths Food Bank.

Community comes together to serve homeless during Thanksgiving: Observer – Dec. 2, 2025

All Faiths Food Bank and other organizations provided the food; two Church of the Redeemer parishioners prepared the meals, and volunteers from the church and Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School helped serve the 360 meals.

Recent grants support All Faiths Food Bank: Patch – Dec. 2, 2025

All Faiths Food Bank recently received $42,731 from six funders in support of its work to end hunger.

Local food banks offer matching donations for Giving Tuesday: ABC7, Sarasota – Dec. 2, 2025

Two local food banks are offering matching donations up to $100,000 each for Giving Tuesday, doubling the impact of contributions made through tonight.

Local donors double Giving Tuesday impact for food relief: ABC7, Sarasota – Dec. 1, 2025

For the last several years, All Faiths Food Bank in Sarasota and Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee have taken part in Giving Tuesday with a powerful incentive: Generous donors who match contributions, multiplying the impact of every gift.

Giving Tuesday totals: ABC7 partners with local food banks to raise $670,000: ABC7, Sarasota – Dec. 1, 2025

ABC7 teamed up once again with our food bank partners – Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee and All Faiths Food Bank in Sarasota – to help raise much-needed funds for local relief efforts.

GUEST CORRESPONDENCE: Why cash donations matter most in the fight to end hunger: SRQ Mag – Nov. 29, 2025

As hunger deepens across our region, the compassion of our community continues to shine. Whenever Sarasota and DeSoto counties face a crisis — a government shutdown, a hurricane, a pandemic — people step forward to help their neighbors. That generosity is part of what makes this community extraordinary.

All Faiths Food Bank works to distribute record number of turkeys: Observer – Nov. 23, 2025

As the line of vehicles formed outside Ed Smith Stadium on Nov. 19, it marked an exceptionally large turnout for the annual turkey distribution there, said All Faiths Food Bank’s president and CEO Nelle Miller.

All Faiths Food Bank’s ThankFULL campaign: Turning empty plates into meals: Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Nov. 20, 2025

For thousands of families across Sarasota and DeSoto counties, rising costs and cuts to federal food and health assistance have made it harder than ever to put food on the table this holiday season.

Barancik Foundation awards $4 million to nonprofits: Daily Sun – Nov. 19, 2025

More than $4 million in grant awards were given to nonprofit organizations in the region by the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation.

Tampa Bay food banks expect demand to linger past the shutdown: WUSF – Nov. 17, 2025

Despite the government reopening, leaders of regional food banks say they don’t expect demand to slow anytime soon.