News Stories Promoting the Food Bank & Our Partner Network
December 2021
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank aims to boost community partners’ infrastructure with $2 million in grants to network
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank ups food supply, equipment to area partners
- Grants help area food pantries serve more in need
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Martin’s host gingerbread house making contest
- $2 million in grants help area food pantries serve more people in need
- Donating hams to BRAFB, other food banks ahead of the holidays
- The Giant Company donates 300 hams and $5,000 to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- Cavaliers make big donation through Touchdown for Turkeys
- ‘Touchdowns for Turkeys’ benefits Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- PHOTOS: Annual Touchdowns for Turkeys campaign donates 620 turkeys
- Beyond the Game
November 2021
- MARTIN’S donates turkeys to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- JMRL to hold Food for Fines drive
- Vaccine clinic coming to Waynesboro fall community resource fair
- Waynesboro Public Schools and health district to host event to meet wellness needs
- The Giant Company donates 1,000 turkeys to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- Turkeys donated to food banks to help families in need for Thanksgiving
- Warner highlights challenge of feeding Virginians in need
- Warner talks infrastructure funding while touring section of Waynesboro High School built in the 1970s in need of renovations
- Turkeys donated to BRAFB
- Grant funding helping food bank’s community partners
October 2021
- Lynchburg’s Texas Inn relishes its 86th anniversary with ‘86-hunger’ food drive
- Lynchburg’s oldest restaurant celebrates 86th anniversary by giving back to community
- Texas Inn celebrating 86th anniversary with 86-cent hot dogs, 86-day food drive for Lynchburg community
- Lynchburg’s oldest eatery celebrates 86 years with an 86 day food drive
- Valley organizations plan COVID-safe Halloween events
- Local potters donate proceeds to food bank
- Drive-thru “Trunk-or-Treat” in Waynesboro
August 2021
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank celebrates 40 years with fund, food drive
- WMRA & BRAFB Unity in Community Food Drive
- Unity in Community Food Drive is region-wide, includes Culpeper Food Closet
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank celebrates 40 years
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank celebrates 40 years – clipped version
- Waiting for the other COVID shoe to drop
- Community food drive underway
- BRAFB collecting food and money donations
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank celebrates 40 years of serving communities
- BRAFB celebrates 40 years of serving Va. communities
- Marking 40 years, Blue Ridge Area Food Bank continues to evolve to meet changing needs
- Food bank marks 40th year
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank smashes goal providing more than 600,000 meals for families in need
- BRAFB announces results of food, fund drive
- BRAFB Unity in Community Food & Fund Drive far surpasses its goal
- “Letter to the editor: Donations allow food bank to provide 637,892 meals”
- “Donations allow food bank to provide 637,892 meals”
- Opinion/Letter: Food bank exceeded goal, thanks to donors
- Food bank exceeded goal, thanks to donors
- Letter to the editor for Aug. 21, 2021
- Food bank exceeds fundraising goal to offer more than 400K meals
July 2021
- Restaurant Week starts Friday
- C-Ville Restaurant Week starts Friday
- PEC to donate locally-produced milk and eggs to local food pantries throughout summer
- Summer initiative to help dairy and egg farmers, food pantries
- Wegmans raising money for BRAFB
- Community happenings | Winchester Star | winchesterstar.com
June 2021
- “Lynchburg Tomorrow” strives to spark lasting community change
- Nonprofit raising thousands to help provide access to food and water
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank marks 40 years of serving the region
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank celebrates 40 years
- Food drive collects 687 lbs. in donations for BRAFB
- BRAFB holding food drive to fight hunger in central Virginia
- Verona Community Food Pantry fighting food insecurity
- BRAFB helping patients at the UVA Kidney Center
- BRAFB: volunteers on the front-lines fighting hunger in central Virginia
- BRAFB working around the clock to serve thousands in central Virginia
- More than just a café: Owner of GR8 PL8 aims to provide space for kids, community
- Cultivate Charlottesville grows its Food Equity Initiative with a policy platform
May 2021
- BRAFB providing healthy foods for patients with diabetes in Augusta Co.
- BRAFB providing healthy foods for patients with diabetes in Augusta County
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank partners with Augusta Health on new healthy diet program
- Schools generous in donating to food bank
- Helping Folks Find Food
- Record-Setting Food Drive by a Rising Albemarle Senior. | NewsRadio WINA
- AHS student leads drive to collect food for BRAFB
- BRAFB helped by people looking to dispose of sensitive documents
- Rockbridge Feeds launches website to help combat food insecurity within local community
- Wawa double-header openings, CPD Torch Run
- 2 new Wawa locations in Albemarle County prepare for Grand Opening with fuel, promos
- Buzz Bites: Mobile Food Pantry program
- COVID Creates New Normal of High-Performing Food Banking
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Update
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank continues to see high demand for food
- BRAFB still seeing higher demand for food assistance
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank continues to see high demand for food
April 2021
- Nonprofit Farms Foster Community and Fight Hunger During COVID-19
- AHS student working against hunger
- Buzz Bites: Local breweries pitch in for river protection, habitat conservation
- CAAR raises thousands to help BRAFB’s mobile food banks
- River Bend Elementary School makes history with cereal box domino run
- Cheers to Charity an advocate for nonprofit
- Grocery chain donates hams to BRAFB
March 2021
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank acquires more land to expand property in Verona
- Martin’s employees volunteer at Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, Giant donates 250 hams
- Martin’s Food employees donate time and hams to BRAFB
- Martin’s Food employees donate time and hams to BRAFB
- Donation of Hams to Help Families in Need
- New Leesburg Sheetz Store Opens Thursday
- Community rallys behind Charlottesville family after receiving unkind note from neighbor (mention)
- AHS club turned Nonprofit helps Lead Charge on School Food Drive
- UVA Health physical therapists supporting charities, reflecting on pandemic
- Fishburne Military School food drive raises enough money 4,000 meals in just two weeks
- COVID-19 Response Fund shows power of partnerships, helps thousands in the Shenandoah Valley
- Food banks without delivery programs see clientele decrease
- Host Lions Club helping to provide 24K meals to people in need
- Brewery gifts 500 half gallons of milk to Blue Ridge Area Food
- COVID-19 Response Fund shows power in partnerships
February 2021
- Giant Food donates $60K to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- Restaurants team up to help BRAFB
- Fire department participating in statewide food and fund drive
- CVS sets some vaccines aside for local food bank clients
- Brother’s Craft Brewing hosts food drive benefitting BRAFB
- The Shenandoah Community Foundation has distributed $152,000 in grants to 24 nonprofit organizations
- WHSV to air live Opry broadcast benefitting Feeding America Saturday night
2020
December 2020
- NEED FOR NOURISHMENT: Food Banks See Demand Soar As Pandemic Drags On
- Honoring our local frontline workers-Frontline Fridays kick off with BRAFB
- Food Lion volunteers distribute food and gift cards at Windy Hill properties
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank participates in Giving Tuesday
- Albemarle students walking miles to feed the hungry
- BRAFB awarded more than $15K from No Kid Hungry
- Middleburg rallies residents to donate a ‘literal ton’ of food
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank alerting community of scammers
November 2020
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank’s Food Pharmacy
- Food bags delivered to UVA Kidney Center patients
- BRAFB prescribing healthy foods to UVA Kidney Center
- patients
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank seeking donations
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank seeking community’s help for
- Giving Tuesday
- Plow & Hearth program gives back to 2 local causes
- Business News: 28 (2nd brief)
- CCAP distributes 255 boxes stuffed with Thanksgiving fixings
- Lynchburg organization helping struggling families by providing fresh produce for Thanksgiving
- Food for Thought distributes produce boxes ahead of Thanksgiving holiday
- Rural food banks struggle to meet surging demand
October 2020
- Largest annual workplace-giving drive is underway
- Concert series benefiting food bank kicks off Friday
- Food Lion donates food to local pantry
- Food Lion helping area food banks as part of new campaign
- Kroger supporting Charlottesville food banks
- Buzz Bites: Food donations provided to help local families during pandemic
- Food Lion donates food to the New Beginnings Christian Community Food Pantry in Charlottesville
- Parkview teams up with area churches, nonprofits to deliver food during pandemic
- Nelson food pantries continue meeting increased need during pandemic
- DuPont effort supports area food bank
Help from Food Lion - Partners provide pork donations for area food pantry
- The Valley Today Podcast: Hunger in the Valley
- Foundation announces 2020 grant recipients
August 2020
- “Spread the Love” donation drives hopes to collect 20,000 pounds of peanut butter for BRAFB
- CAAR raises $20K, helping to provide 80K meals to area residents in need
- Seven Days of Sharing (watch 6 stories that aired in one week on NBC29)
- First Lady of Virginia visits Blue Ridge Area Food Bank to help address food insecurity in the Commonwealth
- Sheetz to open in Front Royal on Thursday
July 2020
- State Farm agents give back in order to save the Charlottesville fireworks
- Castle Hill Cider to donate proceeds to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- Focused Ultrasound Foundation raises thousands of dollars for nonprofits in monthly drive
- Here to help: Meet some of the people who are getting food to the hungry
BRAFB predicts spike in need if COVID unemployment relief ends - Perdue grant provides Good Food School Markets to Harrisonburg and Broadway high schools
- Augusta Health Foundation receives $100K USDA Farm to School grant to expand Get Fresh
- Food Lion donates $64,000 to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
- Community cookbook to commemorate COVID-19 cuisine
