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AfterSchool ReFuel launches on August 19 News

September 13, 2024

AfterSchool ReFuel launches on August 19

Operation Food Search has teamed up with the public library systems in St. Louis and St. Louis County to provide free after-school meals throughout the…

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Local woman has $60K goal to fight food insecurity News

September 4, 2024

Local woman has $60K goal to fight food insecurity

Karen Ruskin has spent close to a year planning for her 60th birthday celebration. “About a year ago the thought crossed my mind to have…

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CitySC and Schnucks Team to fight hunger News

September 4, 2024

CitySC and Schnucks Team to fight hunger

St. Louis CITY SC and Schnuck Markets, Inc., are once again joining forces to fight hunger in the St. Louis region. Sunday, August 18 through…

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8 high schools ready to compete in Tackle Hunger News

September 4, 2024

8 high schools ready to compete in Tackle Hunger

Officials at 18 St. Louis-area school districts have agreed to square-off in a community food collection event designed around the high school football schedule. Read…

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Shop Out Hunger is OFS’ largest annual food drive News

September 4, 2024

Shop Out Hunger is OFS’ largest annual food drive

hop out Hunger, Aug. 17, is Operation Food Search’s largest annual food drive. That event gives you an opportunity to help fellow community members combat…

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OFS partnering with 10
local libraries News

August 14, 2024

OFS partnering with 10
local libraries

School is right around the corner in the St. Louis area, and Operation Food Search is partnering with some local libraries to make sure children…

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Mercy supports Jennings Head Start MetroMarket News

July 31, 2024

Mercy supports Jennings Head Start MetroMarket

Mercy has donated $38,500 to Operation Food Search to fund a MetroMarket stop at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Head Start in Jennings.…

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OFS hosting Shop Out Hunger on Aug. 17 News

July 30, 2024

OFS hosting Shop Out Hunger on Aug. 17

Shop Out Hunger Day, Aug. 17, is Operation Food Search’s largest annual food drive. That event allows you to help fellow community members combat food…

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Cardinals Starts Feed the Future Campaign News

July 18, 2024

Cardinals Starts Feed the Future Campaign

The St. Louis Cardinals and Cardinals Care, the team’s community foundation, today announced the launch of the Feed the Future campaign in partnership with Chip Caray…

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Cardinals Fight Against
St. Louis Child Hunger News

July 18, 2024

Cardinals Fight Against
St. Louis Child Hunger

Cardinals Care launched the Feed the Future campaign to combat child hunger in the area. Read more...

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OFS Benefits from TEGNA Foundation Grant News

June 24, 2024

OFS Benefits from TEGNA Foundation Grant

5 On Your Side is proud to announce that two St. Louis-area charitable organizations, Urban Harvest STL and Operation Food Search, are being awarded $10,000 grants by the…

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Schnucks Donates $40K to Support MetroMarket News

June 20, 2024

Schnucks Donates $40K to Support MetroMarket

Schnuck Markets donated $40,000, including food vouchers, to Operation Food Search in support of the MetroMarket program, a mobile market that brings fresh, nutritious food to areas…

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Green House Venture’s Garden Harvested for OFS News

June 10, 2024

Green House Venture’s Garden Harvested for OFS

The Green House Venture's highway embankment garden is bearing fruit. Or vegetables, to be more accurate. Planted this past spring by students of the three…

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5OYS Project 5 Volunteers with OFS News

June 6, 2024

5OYS Project 5 Volunteers with OFS

5OYS personnel spent time Monday afternoon to make a difference in the community. Read more...

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St. Louis Metro Market Farmer’s Truck MetroMarketNews

June 4, 2024

St. Louis Metro Market Farmer’s Truck

Operation Food Search has been waiting patiently 2 years for their custom-built truck to arrive and launch. Watch here.

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Summer Meals 2024
St. Louis Locations News

May 28, 2024

Summer Meals 2024
St. Louis Locations

St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles City-County libraries and other local organizations are partnering with Operation Food Search to make sure children who rely on free…

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Healthy Food, Healthy Community Project Started News

May 13, 2024

Healthy Food, Healthy Community Project Started

Operation Food Search (OFS) will receive a large serving of funding for its Healthy Food, Healthy Community renovation project, the largest renovation the nonprofit has…

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BJC Grant Helping Healthcare for Elders News

May 13, 2024

BJC Grant Helping Healthcare for Elders

A new community grant from BJC is already making a positive difference in how older adults tackle their health. There's a mix of medicine and…

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Carlton Adams interviewed for Winning STL News

May 13, 2024

Carlton Adams interviewed for Winning STL

Carlton Adams, chief operating officer of Operation Food Search, explains how the group is using education programs and a mobile farmer’s market to help with…

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Quinton Ward featured in FEAST Magazine MetroMarketNews

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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Barnes-Jewish Hospital Fdn. partners with OFS News

April 8, 2024

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Fdn. partners with OFS

The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital has awarded a $50,000 grant to Operation Food Search (OFS) to support the launch of the nonprofit’s Fresh Rx: Community…

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OFS Invests $10M Into Its Headquarters News

March 29, 2024

OFS Invests $10M Into Its Headquarters

Operation Food Search plans to invest $10 million into the programming and facilities at its St. Louis County campus. Learn more...

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OFS Awarded $75,000 from Bayer Fund MetroMarketNews

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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NHS Featured on Nine PBS’ Living St. Louis News

February 2, 2024

NHS Featured on Nine PBS’ Living St. Louis

OFS’s Nourishing Healthy Starts program is helping boost the health of low-income pregnant people and their families with food deliveries, nutrition education, and other services.…

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OFS Receives $75,000 from Bayer Fund News

January 25, 2024

OFS Receives $75,000 from Bayer Fund

Operation Food Search announced that Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S., has awarded a $75,000 grant in support of the organization’s…

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The Impact of Food Insecurity on Pregnancy News

January 18, 2024

The Impact of Food Insecurity on Pregnancy

The March of Dimes recently gave Missouri a report card of D- for maternal and infant health. Read more...

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Kohl’s Gives $25,000 Grant to OFS News

January 8, 2024

Kohl’s Gives $25,000 Grant to OFS

In November, Kohl’s energized nonprofits throughout the country with an influx of $25,000 grants, naming Operation Food Search (OFS) as one of four beneficiaries in…

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Scouting for Food Collected Over 54,000 lbs of Food News

January 5, 2024

Scouting for Food Collected Over 54,000 lbs of Food

OFS received 54,392 pounds of donated food collected by Scouts from the Greater St. Louis Area Council through their annual Scouting for Food campaign. Read…

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Kristen Wild in Food Bank News CEO Roundtable News

December 18, 2023

Kristen Wild in Food Bank News CEO Roundtable

In contemplating what food banking might look like in five or so years, the CEOs of the Food Bank CEO Roundtable imagined the ways in…

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Bank of America Employees Volunteer With OFS News

November 30, 2023

Bank of America Employees Volunteer With OFS

On this Giving Tuesday, Bank of America employees continued the tradition of volunteering with Operation Food Search. Learn more...

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