The food bank distributor that supports local pantries across the Corridor and Eastern Iowa has given out more food this November than it has in its history, signaling a rise in people seeking hunger ...

HIAWATHA, Iowa (KCRG) - The Hawkeye Area Council boy scouts distributed 120,000 bags to Eastern Iowa homes for community members to fill with non-perishables and set them on their front porch for ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Amid a federal shift in philosophy over how best to deal with homelessness and how to pay for it, the nonprofit Hawkeye Area Community Action Program has decided to phase out its ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An eastern Iowa nonprofit that works to fight food insecurity said it’s trying to navigate next steps after losing key federal funding. It comes as it’s seeing record ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Nurses at University of Iowa Health Care’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center are working with a local nonprofit to make sure cancer patients don’t have to choose between ...

HIAWATHA, Iowa (KCRG) - Even with the federal government set to reopen, eastern Iowa food assistance providers say the demand they’ve seen over the past month isn’t slowing down. The Hawkeye Area ...

HIAWATHA, Iowa (KWWL) - The community action agency, HACAP, is in need of staff; so much so that the nonprofit could be forced to close centers if staffing requirements are not met. HACAP currently ...

WATERLOO-Hy-Vee, Inc. will donate 3,740 pounds of Bard Valley Medjool dates to HACAP on Friday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. Hy-Vee is donating 680 packages of Bard Valley Medjool dates, each package ...

LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) -- A new day of giving has been created during the global pandemic, it's called Giving Tuesday Now. Typically, Giving Tuesday follows Black Friday, however, with so many ...

Soldiers with Company A, 248th Aviation Support Battalion, Iowa Army National Guard, transported over 13,000 pounds of food to assist the Hawkeye Area Community Action Program’s mobile food pantry ...

Michael Mahoney, owner of Rot's Bounty Gourmet Fungi, in his Iowa City mushroom farm. A pilot program run by the State of Iowa is battling food insecurity by growing local food networks. Farmers and ...