Food Outreach

Feed My People will expand its services in St. Louis County and Jefferson County with help from a $250,000 grant. The Economic Development Corporation of Jefferson County awarded the money from federal COVID-19 relief funds.

The district has thousands of students who lack stable housing. Events like these are part of an effort to reach families and break down stigma.

Food Outreach provides nutritious meals to people living with cancer or HIV. Now the nonprofit is piloting a project to help veterans with uncontrolled diabetes.

Open five days a week, the Free Breakfast Program is a new initiative to feed children in north St. Louis during the summer. The program aims to provide campers at the Youth and Family Center with access to hot and healthy meals and is based on a program the Black Panther Party ran during the 1970s.

Foodshed.io is testing its technology in the region through a deal with Schnucks Markets. It also has agreements with more than two dozen area farms with plans to add more.

Roughly 850,000 people are facing food insecurity in the state of Missouri alone – and that includes about 220,000 kids.“We estimate roughly one in five…

In the midst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, a group of friends in St. Louis started cooking meals in the kitchen of a church. These meals were…

Bicycles, tricycles, recumbent cycles and tandems were lined up on the street in front of Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood on Sunday, but the sight of a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 8, 2009 - Bob was diagnosed with HIV when he was in his mid-20s and in college. With the news of…