Maine’s Food Pantries Stare Down Volunteer Shortage While Anticipating Cuts

Maine’s Food Pantries Stare Down Volunteer Shortage While Anticipating Cuts

This story was originally published by the Maine Monitor. Phylis Allen spends her days looking for things. She searches for potatoes at Sam’s Club, cheap beets and ginger at Walmart and a local grocery store. She studies the weekly inventory from Good Shepherd, Maine’s only food bank, for good deals on butter and cheese.  Every Monday morning, she shops at three different stores, keeping lists of prices in her head and remembering what particula…

Food Pantries Need Volunteers - Portland Food Map

The Maine Monitor has published an article about volunteer shortages and funding cuts at impacting Maine’s food pantries. Complicating matters is the infrastructure through which the United States distributes most food to those who need help. In Maine, the nearly 600 hunger relief agencies that get free and low-cost food from Good Shepherd Food Bank rely on volunteers. This includes 250 food pantries as well as soup kitchens, senior centers, she…

Maine Monitor: Maine’s food pantries stare down volunteer shortage while anticipating cuts

By Elaine Appleton Grant of the Maine Monitor At Neighbor’s Cupboard in Winterport, funding cuts aren’t the biggest challenge. It’s keeping volunteers…