Adelante Comunidad Conejo The Channel Islands Vineyard Church Pantry Community Action of Ventura County Grants Provide Much Needed Support to Food Share’s Pantry Network Thanks to support from Feeding America, Food Share has been able to provide grant funding to twenty-eight members of our food pantry network. The funding has enabled investment in items like refrigerators and shelving systems that directly support each pantry’s operational capacity and their ability to serve the increasing numbers of clients they’re seeing experiencing COVID-related hardship. Among the pantry...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 2021 Media Inquiries: Vivien Minton Marketing Director vminton@foodshare.com (805) 822-8027 FOOD SHARE WELCOMES TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS (OXNARD, CA) Food Share has welcomed two new members to its board of directors – Ian Thompson, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Amgen’s U.S. General Medicine Business, and Pete Firestone, Senior Managing Director at Protiviti, within the firm’s Business Performance Improvement Practice. Ian was born in the U.K. and completed his undergraduate degree at Leeds Beckett University before earning...
25 years of service and counting! Dave Bratz is one of the most beloved and dedicated members of the Food Share family. He’s served Food Share for 25 years, as both a volunteer and a former member of the Board of Directors. “You meet nice people when you volunteer,” says Dave Bratz, who would certainly know this after 25 years volunteering at Food Share. Dave first became involved in 1995, shortly after retiring, when...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2021 Media Inquiries: Vivien Minton Marketing Director vminton@foodshare.com (805) 822-8027 FOOD SHARE DISTRIBUTES MOST FOOD IN ITS 43 YEAR HISTORY (OXNARD, CA) Since the onset of COVID-19 one year ago, Food Share, Ventura County’s largest hunger-relief organization, has distributed more than 26 million pounds of food, providing more than 21.6 million meals to people in Ventura County. That’s the most amount of food ever distributed in the organization’s 43 year history, and nearly double the previous high of 13.5 million...