Outstanding 980 Score in AIB Accreditation Highlights Food Safety Excellence Food Share is delighted to have received an outstanding score of 980 out of 1000 in its most recent AIB Food Safety Accreditation. The AIB Accreditation is a certification granted by the American Institute of Baking, affirming that a food- related business adheres to rigorous standards and practices in ensuring food...
Food Share, Ventura County’s food bank, is bracing for an expected wave of food insecure individuals as the end of COVID CalFresh benefits becomes reality on March 1. ...
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...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2021 Media Inquiries: Vivien Minton Marketing Director vminton@foodshare.com (805) 822-8027 FOOD SHARE WELCOMES THREE NEW MEMBERS TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS (OXNARD, CA) – Food Share, Ventura County’s largest hunger-relief organization, has appointed Drew West, Hannah Wirz, and Mark Miller to its board of directors. The board provides strategic and financial direction to the food bank’s leadership team, and actively participates in fundraising and networking activities. In other changes, Shawn O’Hara, Principal of O’Hara Management Consulting is replacing Jeffrey Hathaway, Senior Vice President of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2020 Media Inquiries: Vivien Minton Marketing Director vminton@foodshare.com (805) 822-8027 FOOD SHARE SELECTED AS A CA NONPROFIT OF THE YEAR (OXNARD, CA) – Food Share of Ventura County is honored to have been selected as a 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin. Food Share, the largest hunger relief organization in the county, is one of over a hundred nonprofits that will be honored by their state senators and assemblymembers for their outstanding contributions to the communities they serve. “The...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2020 Media Inquiries: Vivien Minton Marketing Director vminton@foodshare.com (805) 822-8027 FOOD SHARE PARTNERS WITH SOCALGAS TO BRING THE “FUELING OUR COMMUNITIES” PROGRAM TO VENTURA COUNTY Program provides vulnerable communities in Santa Paula and El Rio with free meals from local restaurants, helping feed families and stimulating local business Left to right – Brian Miller, Office of Ventura County Supervisor Kelly Long, Chief of Staff ; John Marquez, Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce, Executive Director; Maria Ventura, Public Affairs Manager; Monica White President & CEO of Food Share...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2020 Media Inquiries: Vivien Minton Marketing Director vminton@foodshare.com (805) 822-8027 OVER 4 MILLION POUNDS OF FRESH PRODUCE DISTRIBUTED DURING COVID RESPONSE (OXNARD, CA) Since mid-May, Food Share of Ventura County has provided a staggering 4.1 million pounds of fresh produce to people experiencing hunger in the county. The scale of food insecurity in Ventura County has nearly doubled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Current projections from Feeding America show that 115,000 people, including 42,000 children in our County, are now facing...
Ventura County’s food bank is stepping up its operations to ensure that those in need have access to food. ...
Ventura County’s food bank is stepping up its operations to ensure that those in need have access to food. ...
