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FDN Fall Feast – October 13 at New Park

Friendship Donations Network is celebrating 30 years of rescuing food and reducing hunger since Sara Pines founded our organization in 1988. Join us for the FDN Fall Feast, our first signature fundraising event.    Date: October 13, 2018 Time: 6:00 – 8:30 PM Location: New Park Retreat and Event Center, 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 14850 Cost is $45 per person […]

Food Donor Spotlight: Full Plate Farm Collective

Full Plate Farm Collective and Friendship Donations Network Partnership Offers Healthy Food Written by Sophia Field, 2018.  Full Plate Farm Collective is one of the many local farms that partners with Friendship Donations Network to donate excess produce to community programs serving people in need. In summer 2018, Ithaca’s Full Plate Farm Collective is in […]

Finger Lakes ReUse – Food Distribution Partner Spotlight

ReSoup! Feeding a Workplace with Recovered Produce Written by Sophia Field, 2018.  The Ithaca ReUse center–a local non-profit dedicated to the community, economy, and environment through the process of reusing materials–has begun a new project. It is the not-small task of feeding the staff at its Ithaca location on Elmira Road with hot, tasty soup […]

Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Copied from a PRESS RELEASE sent on April 22th, 2018. Contacts: Gibrian Hagood 607-379-9734, Amanda Kirchgessner 607-339-6075, Mary Anne Grady Flores 607-280-8797  TOMPKINS COUNTY TRUTH COMMISSION:  TESTIFY and LISTEN on how racism, the war economy, economic injustice, and ecological devastation have failed us and our community. Southside Community Center Saturday, April 28th, 3 – 6 pm Free Meal by La Cocina Latina […]