MAZON mourns the loss of our longtime friend and colleague Bob Forney, CEO of the Global FoodBanking Network, who died suddenly on August 29. Bob has been held in high esteem by all of us in the anti-hunger community, and he will be greatly missed. Our most sincere condolences go out to his family and Read More

It would be an absurd overstatement to say that we were friends, but it is true that some 20 years ago, along with Irv Cramer, then the executive director of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, I spent the better part of a week traveling through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, a trip organized for us Read More

On May 25, Innocentia Riker and Elaine Himelfarb, program officers with MAZON, attended a “Women to Women Luncheon” hosted by a longtime grantee: The International Medical Corps (IMC). The event was a compelling gathering of over 200 amazing women commemorating IMC’s 25 years of relentless humanitarian relief work around the globe. IMC’s recent and ongoing Read More

On April 22, 2010 MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger was honored by the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Failure to Thrive Clinic (FTT) at the Department of Pediatrics’ first Donor Luncheon. The luncheon for two dozen, complete with individual thank-you placemats made by the Department’s young patients, was held in the courtyard of the hospital playground. Read More