For media enquiries, contact Jocelyn Fundoukos, Director of Communications, at 314.944.5073 or jocelyn.fundoukos@operationfoodsearch.org.
May 2, 2024
Quinton Ward is a STL Foundation’s 2023 Young Leader
Congratulations, Quinton Ward, sr. manager of MetroMarket, Operation Food Search! Ward will be honored as a St. Louis young leader at the St. Louis American…
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May 2, 2024
Quinton Ward Receives 2023 Game Changer of the Year Award
Operation Food Search is proud to announce that Quinton Ward, OFS’s MetroMarket Senior Manager, was selected to receive Webster University’s 2023 Game Changer of the…
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May 2, 2024
Quinton Ward featured in FEAST Magazine
Nonprofit organization St. Louis MetroMarket is a mobile farmers' market that visits neighborhoods throughout the community struggling to find access to affordable, fresh and nutritious foods…
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February 28, 2024
OFS Awarded $75,000 from Bayer Fund
Bayer Fund supports access to healthy and nutritious foods through high-quality food and nutrition programs. These programs provide support to families in need and rural…
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September 27, 2022
Post-Dispatch goes in-depth on childhood obesity
Despite one big success, Missouri’s ambitious effort to stem childhood obesity fell short. Here’s why. Sarah Woods, a dietitian at a public health clinic in…
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September 8, 2022
Quinton Ward is one of 40 Next City Vanguard Fellows
Operation Food Search’s Quinton Ward Selected as a Next City Vanguard Fellow Operation Food Search (OFS) is pleased to announce that OFS’s MetroMarket Senior Manager…
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August 29, 2022
HEC Media features STL MetroMarket
STL MetroMarket is putting fresh food back on the map Most of the time, much of Ferguson, Missouri is a health food desert. But once…
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July 12, 2022
Schnucks gives $15k to MetroMarket
Schnucks Gives $15,000 to Operation Food Search’s MetroMarket Program Schnuck Markets, Inc. has donated $15,000 to Operation Food Search (OFS) to help the nonprofit organization’s…
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May 12, 2022
STL MetroMarket Kicks Off 2022 Season
MetroBus turned grocery store: St. Louis MetroMarket kicking off 2022 season St. Louis MetroMarket will begin its 2022 season starting Wednesday. MetroMarket is a non-profit…
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May 6, 2022
MetroMarket’s Ward Featured in Biz Journal
St. Louis Character: Quinton Ward finds intersection between the nonprofit and art worlds It may not seem like a natural move for an artist to…
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May 4, 2022
St. Louis MetroMarket launches 2022 season
Operation Food Search Metro Market Bus Kicks Off 2022 Season St. Louis MetroMarket, a nonprofit “farmers market on wheels” that brings fresh produce to food…
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December 8, 2021
MetroMarket joins OFS to Serve More Communities
St. Louis MetroMarket Joins Operation Food Search Operation Food Search is pleased to announce their acquisition of St. Louis MetroMarket, a nonprofit “farmers market on…
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December 3, 2021
MetroMarket Brings Food to STL Communities
Food market on wheels serving St. Louis communities ST. LOUIS — There is an on-going issue in St. Louis. People in certain communities not being…
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