When 8-year-old Jaylen grows up, he wants to be on a basketball team. But not as a player. “I want to be the coach!” he says. Jaylen dreams big, but that dream is a long way off. Right now, his hopes and dreams fall a little closer to home — to his day-to-day [...]
It wasn’t quite the night before Christmas, but it was getting very close. And all through the houses of two elderly women in our community, there was hardly any food at all. One of the women had just been released from the hospital, where she had spent three months on a ventilator battling [...]
A few years ago, life was humming along just fine for Onalee and her family. An Oklahoma State graduate with a BA in Spanish, she had a well-paying job as an insurance agent. Between her income and her husband’s work as a roofer, their three children — ages 17, 10 and 9 — [...]
Happy “donor-versary” to Oklahoma City’s APMEX! The Regional Food Bank celebrates 10 years of collaboration with this great partner, and we are grateful for their support of our vision of creating an Oklahoma where no one goes hungry. From sponsoring major match campaigns to organizing food and fund drives to offering more than [...]
Jessica and Jeremy had both lost their jobs and were living in their vehicle. They came to the Regional Food Bank Food & Resource Center seeking assistance. Staff at the facility help residents of Moore, Norman and southwest Oklahoma City with food, but also with resources to help with other needs. After the [...]
