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Michigan Medicine’s longstanding partnership with Food Gatherers has made a real difference by providing healthy food to our community through our Million Meals Mission.Now, more than ever before, your help is needed.Recent federal program changes have reduced the amount of food that Food Gatherers receives from USDA sources by 50%. To make up the difference, Food Gatherers is purchasing more food and will need to spend an additional $2.5 million this year to purchase enough nutritious food to respond to the increasing need. Feeding America reported in May that food insecurity in Washtenaw County has risen to 14%, or 1 in 7 residents.This is why Food Gatherers leadership and others are now strongly advocating for the restoration of federal food resources and seeking support from partners like us. With your support, the Food Gatherers’ network of food pantries, grocery distributions, and meal programs throughout our community will continue to be a critical resource for families and children in need of food.Our goal is to raise 1 MILLION meals for our community! Your gift today will help us meet and exceed our goal.Go Blue!
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In Support of Food Gatherers
Our Mission: Food Gatherers exists to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in our community.
We rescue local food and leverage state and national food resources for hunger relief. We lead a network of hunger relief providers and engage the public in the fight against hunger. We create and sustain innovative new food programs in response to emerging needs. We recognize that hunger will not be solved through the provision of food alone, so we advocate for policies and system changes to create an equitable food system.