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Jan 9, 2012 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- January 2012
In this issue: Generosity through the Holiday Season; 2011 Year in Review; 2012 Food of the Month Calendars; Our Apologies; Donating to the Pantry; and Calling All Volunteers.
Dec 12, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- December 2011
In this issue: Kids helping kids with after school snacks; Donor Spotlight -- Jones and Fisher families; SHCFP offers gluten free choices in 2012; An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away; Donating to the Pantry; and Calling all Volunteers.
Nov 30, 2011 - Pittsburgh City Paper: Holiday Giving Guide 2011 - SHCFP volunteer opportunity
Looking to do something meaningful this holiday season? The Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry has volunteer opportunities, as featured in this year's CP Holiday Giving Guide.
Nov 18, 2011 - The Jewish Chronicle: SOS Pittsburgh receives grant to help those in need
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield awarded SOS Pittsburgh a $10,000 grant to continue helping those facing crises.
Nov 17, 2011 - Pittsburgh City Paper – Listings (volunteer opportunity)
Volunteering for the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry is featured in this week's edition of the City Paper.
Nov 16, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- November 2011
In this issue: SHCFP Celebrates First Anniversary in Our New Location; High Holiday Giving; Music with a Mission; Thanks to Our New Partners; Donating to the Pantry and Calling all Volunteers.
Oct 10, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- October 2011
In this issue: SHCFP welcomes new Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank CEO; Giving and High Holy Days; Music with a Mission and other fall events to help SHCFP; Donating to the Pantry and Calling All Volunteers.
Oct 5, 2011 - Squirrel Hill Magazine: Kids grow for good
Students from Congregation Beth Shalom's early childhood development program and Pitt's Plant to Plate program donated their time, and produce, to the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry. Click below to read how their efforts help the pantry provide for hundreds of families each year who face food insecurity.
Sep 13, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- September 2011
In this issue: September brings a national focus on hunger; Welcome Tanya; Donating to the Pantry; and Calling all volunteers.
Aug 8, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- August 2011
In this issue: Donor Spotlight -- David Brinn; The Pantry says goodbye to one of our own; Back to School Food Drive; DONATE PERIOD to our feminine product drive; Donating to the Pantry; and Calling all volunteers.
Jul 20, 2011 - Pitt News: Meanwhile, back at the farm, a younger generation grows
Urban farming yields many things, including helping the needy. In this Pitt News story, Squirrel Hill Food Pantry Director Becky Abrams discusses how the Plant to Plate program benefits those in the community with food insecurities by providing them with fresh, local produce.
Jul 11, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- July 2011
In this issue: Many thanks to those who contributed to our Annual Campaign; Chow Wagon provides food for families' furry members; Donating to the Pantry; and Calling all volunteers.
Jul 7, 2011 - The Jewish Chronicle: City gardeners
Congregation Beth Shalom preschoolers in Squirrel Hill planted a garden that will benefit their education, and the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry with the proceeds.
Jun 21, 2011 - The Jewish Chronicle: Squirrel Hill Food Pantry gets $8,000 grant
The MAZON grant, which aims to prevent and alleviate hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds, will help the Food Pantry cover the costs of an on-site licensed clinical social worker.
Jun 13, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- June 2011
In this issue: Pantry thriving in its new location; Pantry receives MAZON Grant; Best wishes to a mentor from SHCFP director Becky Abrams; Donating to the Pantry; and Calling all Volunteers.
May 8, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- May 2011
In this issue: Be sure your summer plans include volunteering at the Pantry; Many thanks to a generous donor, Right By Nature; DONATE PERIOD: feminine product drive; Feinstein appeal concluded: Donating to the Pantry; Calling All Volunteers
May 5, 2011 - Shady Ave: Douglas Shields -- Making a Difference
In the Councilmen's Corner of Shady Ave Magazine, City Council member Douglas Shields talks about the benefits of the Community Development Block Grant, and his plans to allocate money to various organizations including JF&CS and the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry.
May 5, 2011 - Naomi Weisberg Siegel: Sustaining the Hope
Longtime Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry volunteer and donor Naomi Weisberg Siegel speaks to Shady Ave about what fuels her fire as a philanthropist.
Apr 11, 2011 - SHCFP Volunteer Newsletter -- April 2011
In this issue: A spring celebration -- Happy Passover from the Pantry; Neighborhood schools help our Pantry; County grant helps to fund Pantry improvements; Check your mailbox: Donating to the Pantry; and Calling all volunteers
Mar 24, 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Food Pantry awarded grant for improvements
JF&CS's Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry received a $200,000 grant through the Allegheny County Community Infrastructure & Tourism Fund.
Mar 7, 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review Yough program links golf with community service
Nine high school students who use golf to overcome handicaps in their lives stocked shelves yesterday at the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry to help others in need.
Feb 17, 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review $1.5 million gift aids Squirrel Hill Pantry
A $1.5 million donation to the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry from Fox Chapel philanthropists Eric Cooper and his wife, Naomi Weisberg Siegel, is the largest gift in its history, officials said Wednesday.
Feb 17, 2011 - Jewish Chronicle Food Pantry receives $1.5 million endowment
Just about four months after the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry’s move into a larger facility, the $1.5 million endowment from Jewish community members Eric C. Cooper and Naomi Weisberg Siegel couldn’t have come at a better time.
Feb 16, 2011 - Squirrel Hill Food Pantry gets $1.5 million gift
The Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry, Pittsburgh, Wednesday announced a $1.5 million gift from tech entrepreneur Eric C. Cooper and Naomi Weisberg Siegel.
Oct 28, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sauce: From kashrut to 'Ace of Cakes'
New in Squirrel Hill: The Squirrel Hill Food Pantry is undergoing some changes to reflect its growth.
Oct 27, 2010 - Pop City Squirrel Hill Food Pantry offers client choice in new location
When people ask Becky Abrams whether Squirrel Hill even needs the food pantry she directs, Abrams assures them the local hunger problem is real – and growing. The 11-year-old Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry is re-opening in a new and larger location to serve more than 600 people a month – a client list that has grown 85 percent in the last five years – 30 percent in 2010 alone.
Oct 22, 2010 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Food pantry to grow in space, ability to help
On Wednesday, dozens of volunteers began setting up the pantry's new, bigger home less than a mile away on Hazelwood Avenue, at the site of a former Hollywood video store. It is scheduled to open Nov. 1 with a slightly different name: Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry.
Sep 21, 2010 - ABC News online Food Banks Cope With Families Who Have Fallen From Middle Class
As the demographics change, some food pantries are thinking up inventive ways to handle new clients who are hesitant about stepping into the organizations. The Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry employs an onsite social worker and expects to change its current system of divvying out pre-made bags of non-perishables and produce to clients.
May 20, 2010 - Jewish Chronicle Food Pantry partners with local farmer for fresh produce
The Squirrel Hill Food Pantry is taking the “think globally, eat locally” saying very seriously. The pantry announced last week that it has an arrangement with a Tarentum area farmer to plant fruits and vegetables on a plot of his land and to distribute the yield to its clients.
Apr 29, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette DVD sale to benefit kosher food pantry (Flicks for Food)
DVDs of more than 7,000 movies will be available from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday and from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Jewish Family & Children's Service, 5743 Bartlett St., Squirrel Hill.
Feb 11, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Squirrel Hill food pantry only kosher site
Many people are surprised to know that there's a need for a food pantry in Squirrel Hill. But there is...and it's the only kosher food pantry in Western PA.
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