The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation is giving Foodlink $20,000 to help fight hunger in the Rochester area. The donation comes from a national program, called “Fill Your Tank,” that the Enterprise Foundation began in 2016 with its 60th anniversary. Local Enterprise ...

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  In the beginning, there was Tom Ferraro and there was Wegmans. In the 40-year history of Foodlink, it’s hard to distinguish whether there was a time that it existed without its largest benefactor, Wegmans, the nationally renowned grocery store ...

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The Check Out Hunger campaign – in which grocery store customers are asked to add a little bit to their bill to benefit Foodlink programs – started Sunday at Wegmans stores and continues through Dec. 1. “We can’t stress enough ...

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Foodlink Inc. has received a nearly $500,000 grant for its Curbside Market, the nonprofit’s mobile farmer’s market that visits underserved communities throughout Rochester. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Promotion Program in September announced it would help fund 44 ...

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Foodlink Inc. and Wegmans Food Markets Inc.’s annual Fill the Bus campaign has begun, and sponsors are expecting to exceed 300,000 pounds of food for area children this year. Now in its sixth year, the Fill the Bus campaign is ...

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  Chris Wiedemer got into online sales big-time in the early days of the internet 20 years ago. He’d spend hours in the basement of his store, Cooks’ World, preparing 20 to 30 packages a day for shipment. All that kneeling on ...

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Foodlink Inc. is teaming with the City of Rochester and a number of other organizations this weekend to bring food and games to area children. Saturday’s “Spring into Summer” event at Frontier Field will feature games and activities, an appearance ...

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It may not seem like much now, but soon a vacant lot at First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in the City of Rochester will begin to show signs of life as Taproot Collective develops the property into an urban agriculture ...

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A newly opened Henrietta pizzeria will donate all of its grand opening event proceeds to a local charity. Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza, a fast-casual restaurant that serves custom artisan pizza, will host Donation Day next Wednesday. The April 11 event will ...

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Food banks are a stop-gap measure, not the answer to hunger, agreed a panel brought together Wednesday, March 21, by Foodlink. And the question is not really how to solve hunger, but how to solve poverty, they said. “At a ...

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A returning student at Monroe Community College thought getting a job on campus while taking classes would make things easier than when she worked in food service at a local nursing home. But what she didn’t realize was the extra ...

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A new culinary event in Geneva is expected to raise thousands of dollars for Feeding America’s Finger Lakes and Genesee Valley food bank and regional hub, Foodlink Inc. The inaugural FEAST—Feeding Everyone at Shared Tables—will benefit the Rochester-based nonprofit that ...

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Two area nonprofits will receive grants from the Joy in Childhood Foundation, the charitable foundation supported by Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, as part of a $2.3 million nationwide commitment to address childhood health and hunger needs. The YMCA of Greater ...

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Thirty Rochester-area Tops Friendly Markets stores will participate in this winter’s Check Out Hunger campaign, benefiting Foodlink Inc.’s anti-hunger programs. The campaign, which runs from Jan. 28 through Feb. 17, allows shoppers to make a small donation at the cash ...

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At 94, Rosa Wims shows little sign of slowing down. “Mother Wims,” as she’s fondly known to the community, plans to feed hundreds of hungry people today. This year’s feast marks the 32nd year of the annual Rosa’s Thanksgiving Dinner. The ...

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