Donors giving money, time, talent support ATH’s critical work By Victoria Cherrie, Development Director When the pandemic cast millions of Americans into long lines at food banks for the first time, our work getting healthy food to hungry people became more critical than ever (take a look at the newest video about the After the […]
Welcome! Please join us for our Silver Spade Awards virtual event. We’re sorry that we can’t all gather as usual for our annual Holiday Thank You Party, but for this challenging year, we’re going virtual because we couldn’t miss the chance to thank our wonderful volunteers and other supporters. You helped provide healthy food for […]
By Victoria Cherrie, Development Director Joyce Johnson lives in a low-income senior living complex in KCMO and relies on a pantry for the bulk of her food every month. Mostly she gets canned goods. And occasionally there are soups and grits. But there is seldom any produce, she says. “Sometimes there are grapes or apples, […]
By Lisa Ousley, After the Harvest Executive Director September 18 marked the day that the team at After the Harvest gave a “chilly reception” to 30 bins of hard squash and watermelons into our new cold storage in the Interstate Underground caves. ATH worked with Vernon County Produce in Rich Hill, MO., to get these […]
The world has definitely changed since mid-March. And so many lives have been turned upside down in this six-month timespan because of COVID-19. It’s estimated that pre-virus, one in eight in our region was food insecure. The projected impact of this pandemic is that one in six people will know food insecurity in 2020. Because […]