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MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA LAUNCHES MAKE GOOD GO FURTHER™ CAMPAIGN & GO FURTHER FUND
Thursday, Feb 18, 2021
For Meals on Wheels America, the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger, COVID-19 required the need to quickly step up, fight and ultimately persevere. The network worked around the clock to restructure its normally high-touch service model to safely address the dramatic increase in demand – all in the name of protecting homebound seniors from the threat of the deadly pandemic. Through an outpouring of generosity to the Meals on Wheels COVID-19 Response Fund, the network delivered more than 19 million additional meals and served one million more seniors, along with the safety checks and social support needed to keep seniors safe at home; but the hard work continues. [READ]
THE HILL: MORE RELIEF FUNDS ARE NEEDED FOR VACCINATION, NUTRITION SERVICES TO HELP OLDER AMERICANS
Monday, Feb 08, 2021
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MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA AND NANASP URGE CONGRESS TO PASS A COVID-19 RELIEF PACKAGE THAT INCLUDES CRITICALLY NEEDED SENIOR NUTRITION FUNDING AS PROPOSED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE
Monday, Feb 08, 2021
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PETSMART CHARITIES® GRANTS ADDITIONAL $300,000 TO MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA TO SUPPORT SENIORS AND THEIR PETS DURING COVID-19 AND OTHER EMERGENCIES
Monday, Feb 01, 2021
PetSmart Charities®, the leading funder of animal welfare in North America, announced it has granted an incremental $300,000 to Meals on Wheels America, the national leadership organization supporting community-based programs across the U.S. dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. This funding builds upon PetSmart Charities’ record $3 million commitment to Meals on Wheels America in late 2019 to fund the work of a three-year partnership between the two organizations, and comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic, and an increasing number of natural disasters, continue to drive a rising demand for Meals on Wheels services for homebound senior clients and their loving pet companions. [READ]
PRESIDENT-ELECT COMMITS TO ADDRESSING GROWING HUNGER CRISIS
Friday, Jan 15, 2021
Meals on Wheels America President and CEO Ellie Hollander and National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs (NANASP) Executive Director Bob Blancato released a joint statement in response to President-elect Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. [READ]

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MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA NEWS

MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA LAUNCHES MAKE GOOD GO FURTHER™ CAMPAIGN & GO FURTHER FUND

THE HILL: MORE RELIEF FUNDS ARE NEEDED FOR VACCINATION, NUTRITION SERVICES TO HELP OLDER AMERICANS

MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA AND NANASP URGE CONGRESS TO PASS A COVID-19 RELIEF PACKAGE THAT INCLUDES CRITICALLY NEEDED SENIOR NUTRITION FUNDING AS PROPOSED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE

PETSMART CHARITIES® GRANTS ADDITIONAL $300,000 TO MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA TO SUPPORT SENIORS AND THEIR PETS DURING COVID-19 AND OTHER EMERGENCIES

PRESIDENT-ELECT COMMITS TO ADDRESSING GROWING HUNGER CRISIS