March was productive and busy as the Freestore Foodbank gears up for a fun-filled spring and summer ahead.  The Healthy Harvest Mobile Market added a few new locations this month as a part of our efforts to improve access to fresh and healthy food in the community.  Cincinnati COOKS! graduated [read]

Jericho Rudolph is 19 years old and has a dream of becoming a vet someday. He joined LIFT the TriState because he plans to work for a few years in order to save money to go to college.  “This program has given me the skills I will need to find [read]

Matthew Behrensmeyer: Running the Race of Volunteerism at the Freestore Foodbank’s Hunger Walk & 5K Ask any runner and they’ll tell you, “When you’re in the race, it’s not always how much further you need to go that you focus on.  Sometimes, especially when you start getting tired, your focus  [read]

Tim Warton sometimes forgets to make time to eat lunch because he gets absorbed in his work. “I love the Freestore Foodbank and look forward to spending time here with the team,’ he says. Tim sits at the check-out counter in the Liberty Street Market at the Customer Connection Center.  [read]

On a Saturday, once a month, like clockwork you can watch members of the Riley Family trickle into the Freestore Foodbank’s Mayerson Distribution Center for their day of volunteering.  Sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, nieces and nephews, and everyone in-between, it seems, shows up to this standing appointment ready [read]

February was a busy month filled with activity and excitement.  We were thrilled to be involved in advocacy efforts both at home and in Washington DC. We are also very grateful for the support from generous donors. It was a huge honor to be visited by US Congressman Brad Wenstrup [read]

Carl Bosse is an organized guy who spent years working on process improvements and leading teams at Kroger. As he prepared to retire last year, he not only wanted to have his finances in order, but also a plan for how to spend his time. “Kroger works a lot with [read]

“I went to jail the day before Thanksgiving.” Stephen gazed at me sadly as he told me his story. Stephen had lived in Cincinnati all his life.  Many years ago, while on a double date with a friend, he met Nakia who’d just moved here from Massachusetts. They fell in [read]

The drive to Ripley, Ohio would’ve been beautiful, if it wasn’t for the feeling of desolation that enveloped me as I drove east. The Ohio River, swollen and fierce rushed by one side of the road. At times it seemed to creep eerily close to my car. I held my [read]