Houston Food Bank

The American Heart Association has been with us from the very beginning and has been there with us every step of the way as we have expanded our vision around prevention, education, and hypertension awareness.

The Houston Food Bank has also been an essential partner in helping ensure families have reliable access to that nutritious food.

Together, these partnerships have allowed us to build a model that address both immediate needs and long-term wellness.

What makes La Tiendita most powerful is that it meets families where they are and creates opportunities for healthier living spaces where trust already exists.

The venue was really cool.

The Houston food bank.

I had no idea that was set up like it was to be able to hold an event like that.

I mean, they had that place filled up, but it was still really neat.

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but the catering and everything's done through them.

And I think all the rev, a lot of the revenue, like their profits go back into the food bank and it's Houston food bank.

But if you go there, there's a, a map of all of the counties all the way around Houston.

And Houston Restaurant Week says preliminary results may make 2026 its most successful fundraiser yet.

President Katie Stone says donations to the Houston Food Bank could top last year's $1.65 million.

Final numbers come in October, amid criticism of leadership, diner value, and a $1,000 restaurant fee.

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It'll be wonderful.

Down in Houston, our employees work with the Houston Food Bank during Thanksgiving, and also do environmental cleanup with the coast, uh, with the Coastal Prairie Conservatory.

On the West Coast, we did a program with the 49ers, uh, to help rehabilitate a football field in Santa Clara called Townsen Shi, uh, Townsend Field, so the kids have a place where they can just play football.

And in Ohio, employees from bottom up, right, held a golf outing charity where $70,000 were raised for domestic violence shelters.

Fort Bend County's Heroes of Honor observance is also at 10 a.m. at the historic courthouse in Richmond.

Now through 3 o'clock this afternoon, more than 1,200 volunteers are expected to pack more than 300,000 meals for the Houston Food Bank at the Fertitta Center on the University of Houston campus as part of the 9-11 National Day of Service.

You are welcome to go to the Vertida Center to take part if you'd like.

And this evening, Rice University's Shepard School of Music will mark the anniversary with its annual In Memoriam 9-11-2001 performance.

And so we're putting a strain on a ecosystem that was never meant to function in the way that it is functioning.

Uh, you know, uh, Brian Green from the Houston Food Bank, uh, he and I were having a conversation and he said, "You know, Pastor Johnson, we're not just dealing with food insecurity, we're dealing with income insecurity." And he's absolutely correct.

And there is a direct correlation between food insecurity and income insecurity.

And when we begin to make that correlation, uh, and then address these societal issues, I believe from that lens, that's when we'll be able to see headway combined with, to your point, public policy that works.

Bob Sanborn here from Children at Risk, the co-host today.

My good buddy, Brian Green, president and CEO of the Houston Food Bank.

Brian, how you been doing, man? I'm doing good.

You know,

Signed, D in Texas.

Dear Heloise, the Houston Food Bank asked Houston Chronicle readers for plastic bags to put food in for people to take home.

When I shop, I save every bag, smooth them out, and fold them until they're very small, and I collect them to give to the food bank.

Maybe food banks in other cities have this need, too.

This isn't, again, there's lots of great nonprofits that really do serve a need, but there's always kind of a, you know, if you go to the food bank line, typically you're There's a person giving the food, there's a person receiving, and it's hard to form a relationship around that.

Again, Serv's a great, perfect, huge fan of, in particular, the Houston Food Bank, which I know them well.

But what I love about Big Brothers Big Sisters is when a relationship is formed, it's two-sided.

Both people kind of journey through life together.