Marcia Hodgson, Author at Circles Charity Register

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Saying ‘yes’ as a way to help change the world

Active as a volunteer with UCOM since 1997 through her church, Philip R. Cousin AME, Sandra Hicks said that volunteering was something she has always…

UCOM’s Thursday workers Elaine Thompson, Malcolom Hanson, James Dell’Alba, and Brenda Thomas believe that no one should face hunger alone.

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Serving so no one faces the crisis of hunger alone

United Community Outreach Ministry (UCOM) Executive Director Sara Mitchell often invokes the words of television personality Mr. Rogers when she thinks of the food insecure…

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Retirement leads to a life helping others

Six years ago, when he retired as a labor relations administrative manager with the Jacksonville Energy Authority’s St. Johns River Power Park, Bill Hiers decided…

Trinity Lutheran Food Pantry Volunteers Gary Hautau, Tom Culverwell, Darren Sirmans, Steve Thomaszewski, Tim Bush, Frank Garelick, Bill Hiers, Mary Bollingberg, Rick Redman, Byron Bollingberg and Jim Cates

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Humbly feeding the hungry since 1995

Visiting Trinity Lutheran Church’s Food Pantry in Riverside can offer deep lessons in humility, and not just for the clients. “I’m always telling the volunteers,…

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Becoming a better version of self by helping others

When North Florida School of Special Education students head out to the community, they are always encouraged to “be the best version of themselves.” However,…

Volunteers make up plates so that dinner may be served at Sulzbacher Center.

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Spirit of giving, dedication to homeless alive in downtown Jacksonville

As Northeast Florida’s largest provider of comprehensive services for homeless men, women and children, I. M Sulzbacher Center plays a major role in the city’s…

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Volunteering teens gain confidence

When Sandalwood High School teacher Maria Gumbayan first brought her students to volunteer in The Salvation Army’s food pantry 12 years ago, the experience came…

A group of Salvation Army volunteers led by Miracle-on-the-Hudson plane crash survivor Casey Jones, center, distributes turkeys at Thanksgiving time. In 2016, Jones collected 510 turkeys.

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Meeting the needs of the hungry without discrimination

As a well-known advocate for the lost, the vulnerable, the needy, the poor, the hurting, the helpless, and the hopeless, it comes as no surprise…

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Church group provides tuna casserole, served with love

On the last Friday of every month, Bill Kornmayer and his wife, Rita, join a small team of volunteers from Our Lady Star of the…

Volunteers Michael Olson, Pat Morrissey, Bill Kornmayer, Rita Kornmayer, Karen Fregeau, and Gary Gregeau from Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church make a hot lunch for the folks at Mission House once a month.

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Nonprofit provides 20 years of compassionate care to Beaches’ homeless

It’s been 20 years since members of four Beaches churches joined together to create Mission House, the only day facility at the Jacksonville beaches that…

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Commitment to underserved shines through agency’s work

It was Lutheran Social Service’s mission to fill in the gaps for neighbors in need of a meal that attracted Jeff Viau and his wife,…

Volunteers from United Healthcare and Optum helped distribute hurricane relief supplies at St. Andrews Lutheran By-the-Sea Church in Jacksonville Beach after Hurricane Matthew.

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Feeding the many faces of hunger

For more than 35 years, employees at Lutheran Social Services (LSS) have been working to nourish hungry Northeast Florida residents though a wide array of…

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Retired volunteer busies herself by giving back

For seven years Paula Caplan has served once a week at the Jewish Family and Community Services’ Max Block Food Pantry. Although she wishes she…

Volunteer Elaine Furman stocks the shelves in the Max Block Food Pantry at Jewish Family & Community Services.

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Food pantry aims to help people help themselves

Falling in line with the century-old Jewish Family & Community Service’s mission to “help people help themselves,” JFCS’s Max Block Food Pantry does not discriminate…

Volunteers from Advantage Dermatology help out at a Hunger Fight packing event.

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Nonprofit provides alternate way to feed people in need

Since its inception five years ago, Hunger Fight has distributed more than 3,711,943 prepackaged meals to children and families deemed food insecure throughout the Southeast….

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Becoming part of “something bigger than myself”

It was the song “Fill a Heart” Tori Kelly wrote for the campaign Child Hunger Ends Here that inspired the Williams sisters, Khadjah and Vivica,…

Feeding Northeast Florida warehouse worker Cosme Corona loads items into a partner agency’s truck.

2017-2018, Articles, Food Insecurity

Major food bank distributes food so hungry can be fed

There is no single human need greater than food, and because hunger triggers crime, and affects unemployment, worker productivity, and education, Feeding Northeast Florida is…