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CityServe Delivers Over 5 Million USDA Farmers to Families Food Boxes to Families in the “Last Mile of Need”
Since the United States Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program launched in May 2020, CityServe’s collaborative network of churches and faith-based organizations have distributed over 5 million food boxes across the United States. Food box...
CityServe & Gold Star Foods, Inc’s Unique Collaboration Delivers Food in the “Last Mile of Need”
In round two of the United States Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program, CityServe, a faith-based nonprofit, and Gold Star Foods Inc., one of the nation’s leading nutrition provider to K-12 schools and USDA approved contractor, collaborated in...
New Collaborations Form to Feed American Families Quickly
A YEAR OF HARDSHIPS No one can argue 2020 so far has been an unexpected year of hardship and suffering. The coronavirus pandemic; political and social unrest; massive fires and storms, have generated an immense amount of pain in our nation this year, and not to...
Farmers to Families
By Joel Kilpatrick This article was first published on AG News In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) started the Farmers to Families Food Box program to support farmers, food processors, and needy families. A number...
How Churches Are Filling the Gaps in the “Last Mile of Need”: A New Approach to Feeding Hungry Families
While each step of the supply chain is important, there is none more pressing than delivering through the “Last Mile of Need.” Local churches are innovatively taking the torch where others fall short and feeding the most food-insecure families. [video width="1920"...
Ivanka Trump Joins CityServe Leaders at DC Dream Center for USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Distribution
1,000 Food Boxes Given to Local Families in Need July 21, 2020, BAKERSFIELD, Cali.—On Monday, July 20th, Advisor to the President, Ivanka Trump joined CityServe and its partners at the DC Dream Center in Washington D.C. to distribute food boxes from the United States...
CityServe & World Vision Leaders Serve Pittsburgh Alongside Ivanka Trump & Others with Farmers to Families Food Boxes
CityServe co-founders, Dave Donaldson and Wendell Vinson and Reed Slattery, World Vision joined Ivanka Trump, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, and Pastor Paula White, White House Center for Faith & Opportunity Initiatives on Tuesday, June 16th, at the Pentecostal...
CityServe Bakersfield and CityServe Arkansas Designated as “Community of Faith and Opportunity” by United States Department of Agriculture
HUBs Gain Support to Extend Local Church Engagement On Thursday, May 21, 2020, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced CityServe and its partners as a regional “Community of Faith and Opportunity” for CityServe headquarters in Bakersfield, CA and...
CityServe Nonprofit to Play an Essential Role in USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program
347,000 Food Boxes to be Delivered Monthly Across the Nation May 21, 2020 - CityServe-resourced churches will play an essential role in the distribution of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program, designed to provide...
Life on the Frontlines of COVID-19
Under stay-at-home orders, many of us do not see the daily plight of citizens on the fringe. We cannot see the hundreds of cars lined up at drive-thru food banks, the millions of people searching for jobs, or the hospital beds filling up.