This September, hear from David Brooks at Our City, Our Story
This year, MIFA’s annual luncheon intended to inspire thoughtful conversation about community will feature political and cultural commentator David Brooks.
Topic: Sally Jones Heinz
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February 2023
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December 2020
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Food Bank CEO: We’ve seen people who’ve ‘never been in a food line’
Leaders of the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association and Mid-South Food Bank talked on “Behind The Headlines” about how the pandemic has changed their distribution models.
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April 2020
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At MIFA, ‘We had to get the meals out’
How could we continue to deliver MIFA Meals on Wheels, a service that, by design, is face-to-face, during social isolation? Our answer stretched our imaginations and our capacity.
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March 2020
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Virus throws a wrench in MIFA’s senior meal delivery system
We will soon stop daily deliveries to protect both our clients and our volunteers and staff. That’s why we’re working now to get as many frozen and shelf-stable meals into seniors’ homes as we can, in case a day comes when we can’t deliver at all.
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December 2019
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With Meals on Wheels, results are real
For many of the 1,200 homebound seniors served by MIFA each weekday, the volunteer who delivers the meal is the client’s only human contact in a day.
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June 2019
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Ms. Jean lived on a corner outdoors, providing a gift to her neighborhood
Almost as if by a magnetic force, residents were drawn to Ms. Jean. The few gifts she would accept – a hamburger, a blanket, a bag of cherries – were small. But the gift she gave was enormous: She activated compassion and drew her neighborhood closer together.
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December 2018
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Nonprofits see conflicting dynamics in city’s need
For the last 20 years, First Baptist Church on Broad has celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner at the church that includes the homeless. A group of men from the church deliver hot Thanksgiving meals to around 1,000 more people that day as well.
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