Anyone who has seen or listened to the news or  even had a conversation with a family member, friend or neighbor has certainly heard of the coronavirus, the epidemic disease that has devastated China, moved across the globe and threatens to become a pandemic. We have...

This week's blog post is contributed by Tim A. Morris. Tim is the Director of Cherokee Senior Services  in Canton, GA.  Cherokee is one of 33 Congregate Nutrition Programs (CNPs) with which NFESH has been working in Georgia in a statewide project to help improve...

We concluded our last blog post by enticing readers to keep an eye on this space, promising we would soon explain just how NFESH will honor our commitment to help states and congregate nutrition programs (CNPs) located in senior centers achieve their missions in 2020....

As individuals we tend to measure the passage of time by years.  “Remember in 1997 when…” we reminisce with a friend or a colleague. As a nation and a society, however, we tend to look back on the past in terms of decades and to characterize those ten year chunks of...

Our Thanksgiving message this year was brief but full of sincerity as we wished all our fellow citizens the best on a common American holiday. We are back on the verge of the holiday seasons and, this year, portions of three major holiday traditions – Christmas,...

by Peggy Ingraham It should be no surprise to anyone that those of us who work in the anti-hunger field spend a great deal of time thinking about the hunger problem and searching for solutions to what is a growing crisis. For most of us our work is more than a job or...

We realize we are a week early with our message, but this is our last blog post of this month. So we simply but sincerely want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Because you take the time to read our posts, we know that you share our concern for those who will not be...

Here at NFESH during these past few weeks we have been celebrating a couple of notable “firsts.” Both of them are worthy of attention, but the two of them are not getting the same degree of notice. So we are going to take the liberty of changing that. In doing so we...

by Peggy Ingraham For many folks, October ranks high on the list of favorite months. And why not? In many parts of the country Autumn is the most beautiful of seasons. Fall leaves explode with color, transforming the landscape and competing for attention with that...

In a world filled with uncertainty, it is most often comforting to know that some things are reliable, ever the same, changeless. Take for example the succession of the seasons: fall always follows summer, the cycle inevitably proceeds as it has since the beginning of...