Written by Jessica Miller Last month Cody Martensen started as Community Action Services & Food Bank’s Circles Initiative Coordinator for Utah & Wasatch Counties. Six years ago, when he started as a Circles Initiative participant, no one would have thought...
Since our beginning in 1967, Community Action Services & Food Bank (CASFB) has dedicated its resources to helping members throughout the community escape poverty. From offering resources to helping individuals rebuild their lives, our nonprofit organization has...
Every day, people in Utah struggle to put enough healthy food on the table to feed themselves and their families. As costs increase, so does the problem of hunger in Utah. From May 2022 to May 2023, our pantries saw a 155 percent increase in usage. Community Action...
It was a deliciously creative serving of SPAM fajitas, deftly prepared by Provo’s Deputy CAO Dixon Holmes, along with his sous chef, Provo City Council Member Katrice MacKay, that took home the win for overall best-flavored entree during Community Action Services and...
Food drives are a vital resource for our four main food pantries and smaller locations in schools. They help us put food on the tables of people who don’t have enough food in our community—11 percent of people in Wasatch County, 11.5 percent in Utah County, and 10.4...
The 2021 Valley United Against Hunger food drive, where students from BYU and UVU join together in a friendly competition to raise food and monetary donations for Utah County’s most in-need residents, concluded on Tuesday, November 23, when students presented...
