Midland County Food Assistance Network – "Always Food in Every Home"

Collaborative Award

MCFAN Receives Partner Leadership Award from the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

Midland County Food Assistance Network was recently honored at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's annual meeting with a 2024 Partner Leadership Award recognizing MCFAN's leadership and work to serve our neighbors in need.

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Meijer Simply Give

Between Sunday, March 30, and Saturday, June 28, 2025 stop by Meijer and purchase a $10.00 Simply Give gift card located near the checkout lanes. Meijer will contribute additional funds to our organization. The Midland County Food Assistance Network will use the money to buy items that are not donated or available from the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.

Double Match Day: Saturday June 14. For every $10.00 donation, Meijer will give an additional $20.00. Your $10.00 donation becomes $30.00 for EFPN.

Give Local Midland

On Tuesday May 6, 2025 the Midland Area Community Foundation (MACF) is again sponsoring Give Local Midland. Give Local Midland is part of a national online giving event. Many Midland County nonprofits will be part of this 24-hour, one day event. All money collected on this day will go into the spendable portion of the network's endowment and every donation will receive matching funds. We hope to build our endowment so that it fully supports some of our key programs like BackPack Buddies, and enables us to achieve our mission of ‘always food in every home

Check the Midland Give Local site to learn more about this event.

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BackPack Buddies

In cooperation with the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, MCFAN is offering the BackPack Buddies program for the school year.

Elementary and preschool children are eligible to participate if they qualify for free or reduced meals, live in a household with a Food Stamp FIP case number or in a household qualifying for WIC assistance.

There is no cost to participate in the program.

To enroll in the program, parents should contact the administration of their child's school for an enrollment form.

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Volunteer

Become an MCFAN volunteer today!

Midland County Food Assistance Network could not help those in need without volunteers. Volunteers are needed to help in the regular pantries, the mobile food pantries, and the senior delivery program, to sort or pack food donations at the warehouse or other areas to help keep our programs going. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Pesi Kennett, at outreach@midlandcountyefpn.org or (989) 750-7177

National Letter Carrier Drive

National Letter Carriers’ Food Drive is Saturday, May 10

On Saturday May 10, the National Association of Letter Carriers will help Stamp Out Hunger across America. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive has become the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Midland Country postal workers will be participating in this drive and YOU CAN HELP! Helping Stamp Out Hunger is as easy as checking your mailbox. Just leave a bag of non-perishable food where your letter carrier normally delivers your mail. Your letter carrier will pick up the food. The food collected will be distributed to food pantries in Midland County. This is one of the final drives to help stock pantry shelves for the summer months. Please support the effort of your local postal workers.