Manna Conejo Valley Food Bank would like to extend a huge thank you to the Conejo Valley Food and Wine Fest for making Manna one of the beneficiaries of the event. The Conejo Food and Wine Fest took place on Sunday, June 29th, and was a spectacular event for people in the local community and surrounding areas to enjoy fine food from different local establishments, as well as taste wines and microbrews from surrounding wineries and breweries. The proceeds from the event benefitted Manna, which was...
Summer is usually the slowest time for food banks. Summer is also the time when more people depend on food banks, since kids are out of school and are eating more meals at home. The best way to help the Manna Food Bank this summer is to hold a food drive to help stock our pantry. There are plenty of simple ways to organize a food drive. Follow these steps to start your summer food drive today. Decide how you want to collect food. Decide if you want to have a single-site drop off, extended food...
Manna is making it even easier to donate! Manna has partnered with AmazonSmiles in order to receive donations from qualifying Amazon purchases. By placing this link on your blog, website, or newsletter, purchasers will be able to donate to Manna every time they purchase an eligible item through Amazon. The link will take your supporters directly to the AmazonSmile website so they can start shopping and donating. Amazon will donate 5% of the purchase price of the AmazonSmiles item to Manna Conejo...
Manna is excited to be one of the first non-profit organizations featured in the already successful beta version in a terrific new online local directory, All About Conejo. All About Conejo is a team of tech savvy, driven, and most importantly FUN social media professionals that live, breathe, work, eat and everything else in the Conejo Valley, and have for years. They see an ongoing need for Conejo Valley residents of all ages to have access to an interactive, hyper local business directory of...
Although many people are already enjoying their summer holiday, hunger is never able to take a holiday. While most people are planning fun summer vacations to take with their kids, families who struggle to put food on the table may find summer a more difficult time. With the absence of free and reduced school meals, parents have to find ways to provide enough food. Cash donations and food donations both decrease in the summer time, but there is an increased need for them. Almost 65 percent of families...