Hunger Blog

Walmart and Sam’s Club Fight Hunger. Spark Change Campaign Returns to East Texas to Help People Facing Hunger

For the 12th straight year, all U.S. Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations are launching the Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign, including right here in East Texas. The goal of the annual cause marketing campaign is to provide people facing hunger with access to the food and resources they say
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Tyler Empty Bowls event to benefit the East Texas Food Bank

The East Texas Food Bank will hold the second annual Empty Bowls Tyler event on Thursday, February 27 at the ETFB, to bring awareness to the 1 in 6 adults, including 1 in 4 children in East Texas who are hungry, brought to you by presenting sponsor the Hall Family
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East Texas Food Bank receives 42,000 pounds of food from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Forty-two thousand pounds of mixed goods were delivered to the East Texas Food Bank on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. The food, amounting to 25 pallets, was donated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. East Texas Food Bank (ETFB) has a 26-county service area and operates multiple resource
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East Texas Food Bank Announces New Director of Organizational Engagement

The East Texas Food Bank has hired Starla Bickerstaff as the new Director of Organizational Engagement. Bickerstaff has extensive experience in East Texas in retail management, manufacturing marketing, advertising management, and healthcare marketing. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management from the University of Texas at Tyler. She
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Hormel Foods and Brookshire Grocery Co. donate $100K of Hormel® Cure 81® hams to help thousands in need

Hormel Foods Corporation and Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) partnered to donate nearly 8,000 Hormel® Cure 81® hams to help feed those in need this holiday season. The two companies are donating $100,000 worth of hams to the East Texas Food Bank and other food banks in the company’s market area
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Whataburger Franchisee Holds Annual Food Bank Fundraiser

Nearly two dozen Whataburger restaurants across East Texas will begin their annual East Texas Food Bank Ornament Sales Dec. 4. Guests can buy train ornaments to adorn each restaurant through Dec. 17 with all proceeds going to the East Texas Food Bank. “They are a great organization that we’ve been
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