Fighters' Network
VIP Meeting: North Central Region
This month, we begin to address some of the challenges your region faces in the fight against hunger. Get ready to work together and discuss solutions!
Addressing Your Region's Challenges
The Victory in Partnership (VIP) Project supports food pantries and soup kitchens in Philadelphia by:
- Providing them with funding, equipment, training, technology and other resources
- Networking them within their communities so they can work together to fight hunger. Program managers meet monthly in their regions (North, Northwest, Northeast, West and Center City/South Philadelphia) for trainings and discussions to help them better serve people in need.
VIP Meeting: Northeast Region
This month, we begin to address some of the challenges your region faces in the fight against hunger. Get ready to work together and discuss solutions!
Addressing Your Region's Challenges
The Victory in Partnership (VIP) Project supports food pantries and soup kitchens in Philadelphia by:
- Providing them with funding, equipment, training, technology and other resources
- Networking them within their communities so they can work together to fight hunger. Program managers meet monthly in their regions (North, Northwest, Northeast, West and Center City/South Philadelphia) for trainings and discussions to help them better serve people in need.
VIP Meeting: Northwest Region
This month, we begin to address some of the challenges your region faces in the fight against hunger. Get ready to work together and discuss solutions!
Addressing Your Region's Challenges
The Victory in Partnership (VIP) Project supports food pantries and soup kitchens in Philadelphia by:
VIP Meeting: South Region
This month, we begin to address some of the challenges your region faces in the fight against hunger. Get ready to work together and discuss solutions!
Addressing Your Region's Challenges
The Victory in Partnership (VIP) Project supports food pantries and soup kitchens in Philadelphia by:
- Providing them with funding, equipment, training, technology and other resources
- Networking them within their communities so they can work together to fight hunger. Program managers meet monthly in their regions (North, Northwest, Northeast, West and Center City/South Philadelphia) for trainings and discussions to help them better serve people in need.
VIP Meeting: West Region
This month, we begin to address some of the challenges your region faces in the fight against hunger. Get ready to work together and discuss solutions!
Addressing Your Region's Challenges
The Victory in Partnership (VIP) Project supports food pantries and soup kitchens in Philadelphia by:
Harold Fleming
For the past 24 years, he's fed countless individuals at St. Mark's Church in Center City.
Photo by Erik Wilson
For the past 24 years, he has helped families, seniors and countless others who've walked through the doors of St. Mark's Church in Center City.
KYW Newsradio: Thousands Turn Out for Hunger Walk/Run in Philadelphia
Thousands of people packed the Art Museum area for a walk and run to fight against Hunger.
by KYW’s Michelle Durham
Thousands of people packed the Art Museum area for a walk and run to fight against Hunger.
More than 316,000 residents in the area received help from a food pantry in 2009 and the number of people who need help is growing.
The 14th Annual 5K walk and run and it raises money for more than 100 Food pantries, soup kitchens and other agencies in our area like the Food Bank of South Jersey.
Mario Partee works there:
KYW Radio: Food Pantries Depend on Saturday's Walk Against Hunger
This Saturday is the annual Walk Against Hunger which will benefit more than 100 food pantries and soup kitchens throughout the area.
This Saturday is the annual Walk Against Hunger which will benefit more than 100 food pantries and soup kitchens throughout the area.
Representatives of food panties and soup kitchens around Philadelphia and South Jersey meet every spring to compare notes and offer each other support. Teresa Reid is with the Calvary Agape Community Outreach in Southwest Philadelphia.
"It seems like every week, we're getting more and more new applicants coming in for food."
KYW NEWSRADIO: Food Pantries Depend on Saturday's Walk Against Hunger
Saturday's annual Walk Against Hunger and 5K run will benefit the area's feeding programs which are under more and more strain as more and more people look for more and more ways to put more food on the table.
This Saturday is the annual Walk Against Hunger which will benefit more than 100 food pantries and soup kitchens throughout the area.
Representatives of food panties and soup kitchens around Philadelphia and South Jersey meet every spring to compare notes and offer each other support. Teresa Reid is with the Calvary Agape Community Outreach in Southwest Philadelphia.
KYW Newsradio: Local Food Banks Depending on 14th Walk Against Hunger
With a record number of people turning to food pantries and soup kitchens for help, this year's Walk Against Hunger & 5K Run needs more support than ever.
by KYW's Karin Phillips
Demand is increasing for area soup kitchens and food pantries as organizers get ready for next month's Walk Against Hunger.
The 14th annual Walk Against Hunger happens on April 10th and can't come soon enough for hundreds of soup kitchens, food pantries and other feeding organizations who depend on the proceeds of the walk and run to fund their operations for the next year.