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Peabody Essex Museum, The Salem Pantry Launch 'Feeding Community'

The joint initiative is designed to raise food insecurity awareness, secure essential funding and gain volunteers for The Salem Pantry.

The Peabody Essex Museum and Salem Pantry have launched a food insecurity initiative in connection with Giving Tuesday.
The Peabody Essex Museum and Salem Pantry have launched a food insecurity initiative in connection with Giving Tuesday. (Shutterstock)

SALEM, MA —The Peabody Essex Museum and the Salem Pantry have launched a joint initiative to combat food insecurity on the North Shore.

The Feeding Community program is designed to raise awareness of food insecurity, secure essential funding and recruit volunteers to support The Salem Pantry's operations. The program was launched in conjunction with Giving Tuesday.

The Peabody Essex Museum will enroll volunteers, collect food donations at the museum and help distribute food at The Salem Pantry throughout December. Donations to either the Peabody Essex Museum's Annual Fund or The Salem Pantry will help unlock a $20,000 matching donations from Larry and Atsuko Fish of the Fish Family Foundation.

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The gift will be distributed once the Feeding Community venture reaches its goal of 200 donations.

"Amid a pandemic and record unemployment, food insecurity is an essential issue facing our communities and the need is dire," said Robyn Burns, Executive Director of The Salem Pantry. "We are proud to partner with PEM to attack this issue head on and help inspire a new wave of community support and action."

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The Salem Pantry said it is now serving six times as many people as it did prior to the pandemic.

"Feeding Community seeks to keep our community nourished and vibrant," said Amanda Clark MacMullan, PEM’s Chief Philanthropy Officer.

Go here for more information on the program and to donate.

Those looking to help can do so in one of four ways:


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