Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are teaming up again this summer to feed the city’s hungry and most vulnerable. WRTV-6 is reporting the CARE Mobile Food Pantry began services on Monday and will continue through August 27. There are six distribution centers with plenty of volunteers from the city’s emergency crews […]
The sudden “temporary” shutdown of services formerly provided by the mid-Northside Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center not only impacted youth, but was a setback to some 70-plus senior citizens who were serviced by the Center. One of those services included receiving food stuffs once a month from Gleaners Food Bank through a Federally-funded program called […]
Indianapolis-Area Attractions Celebrate MLK Day Several businesses and attractions are celebrating Martin Luther King Junior Day. Patrons are invited to ”do good” while visiting the sites in White River State Park to observe the service holiday. Anyone donating a canned food item gets in free at the Eiteljorg Museum, IMAX Theater, Indiana State Museum, NCAA Hall of Champions, and the […]
Senator-elect Joe Donnelly visited several Indiana cities this weekend to see first hand how the state’s food pantries and charities are helping Hoosier families hurt hard by the Great Recession. I caught up with Donnelly at Gleaners Food Bank. A couple of years ago Gleaners moved from their old warehouse on East 16th Street to […]
