Watch the Koln-Kgin TV Promo Click Here

       Akin's Natural Foods present the Food Bank a $500 check for

Check Out Hunger. Click the picture below to Akins website.

This year there are two ways to support the Food Bank of Lincoln!

 Check Out Hunger and the Holiday Food Drive

                       Check Out Hunger (November &  December )

                 2007 Totals for Check Out Hunger over $27,000.

Check Out Hunger began in 1993, and is sponsored by the Lincoln Journal Star and KOLN/KGIN Television. This program operates Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 and features coupon pads at the checkout stands in over 30 area grocery stores. These pads contain coupons in $1, $5, and $10 denominations. Shoppers tear off a coupon and hand it to the cashier. The cashier then swipes the coupon that has a barcode, and adds the corresponding amount to the shoppers’ grocery bill. The Food Bank accumulates an account in each partnering store, and then purchases our most needed items at that store. It is a win-win-win promotion. The shopper can easily and painlessly make a donation to help feed hungry neighbors, the stores make sales, and the Food Bank is able to gather its most needed items for distribution to its agencies. Check Out Hunger raises around $20,000 worth of food each Fall for the Food Bank.                                      

                             Click Here to see who is participating

                                                             2007

Holiday Food Drive

2007 Total for Holiday Food Drive over 60,000 pounds of food

November 20  thru December 21 2007

Click the Picture to find out who's participated this year!

he Holiday Food Drive runs from Thanksgiving until Christmas. On Tuesday, November 20th, the Lincoln Journal Star will insert 67,000 grocery bags in the newspaper, with the slogan: “Think of this bag as an empty cupboard. Help us fill it.” Friends of the Food Bank will fill those bags at their favorite grocery store and will drop them off in Food Bank barrels at over 30 stores in Lincoln and surrounding communities.

The 2007 Holiday Food Drive is sponsored by Cooks Ham, Meadow Gold, West Gate Bank and the Lincoln Journal Star. Since the drive began, the Holiday Food Drive has brought in over 1.7 million pounds of food.