WebIXI, an HCAA Community Partner, has helped us launch our first Virtual Food Drive! What is a Virtual Food Drive? Like a traditional food drive, virtual food drives help bring […]
WebIXI Helps Launch HCAA’s First Virtual Food Drive!
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Food Advocacy Team Visits Halls Cross Roads Elementary
The Food Advocacy team has been busy! On Tuesday, we spent time with families at Halls Cross Roads Elementary School sharing how to shop for and prepare healthy food on a […]
Delish Cooking Club Field Trip
HCAA took 10 middle schoolers, from the Delish Cooking Club at HdG Middle School, on a field trip to put to use the tools they learned completing our 6-week food advocacy […]
Girl Scouts Lend Talents to the Pantry
By Natalie Shaw, Director of Compliance, and Courtney Tramontana, Food Advocacy Coordinator In November, a Girl Scout Troop visited the Pantry to help sort canned goods coming from the annual […]
Column: An empty hospital. An exploding homeless crisis. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
It was Sunday past and Patricia McVerry, a West L.A. resident and self-described newspaper addict, was reading the L.A. Times when she came upon the story of St. Vincent Medical Center’s […]
Plans to move California’s homeless population into centralized facilities gain steam
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Duane Nason thinks he has a solution for California’s rising homelessness crisis. The software developer and web engineer envisions a 300-acre property—similar in size to an amusement park, he says—with […]
Pulitzer Prize Winner to Pen Series on Childhood Hunger for Maryland Matters
On Thursday, Maryland Matters will launch a ground-breaking, multi-part series on childhood hunger in Maryland. The series, “Empty Plates at Maryland’s Table,” will take a look at an array of institutional impediments […]
Zero Hunger Hero: a high school senior making a big difference
Rowland Hall Senior Ben Amiel wants to be a lawyer, and he’s on the right track being on his school’s debate team. That takes a lot of time, but he […]
Malnutrition Hits The Obese As Well As The Underfed
Hunger once seemed like a simple problem. Around the globe, often in low-income countries, many people didn’t get enough calories. But increasingly, hunger exists side-by-side with obesity. Within the same […]
CCM’s Specialty Court Case Manager Helps Customers Succeed
CCM’s Specialty Court Case Manager Helps Customers Succeed By Brit Ayers, Director of Community Case Management As the Director of Community Case Management, I would like to take a few […]