{"id":56,"date":"2012-01-30T17:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2025-04-10T01:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T01:13:44","slug":"resources-and-partners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/?page_id=56","title":{"rendered":"Resources &#038; Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Partners<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"www.foodbank.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worcester County Food Bank <\/a><\/strong>- <cite>www.<strong>foodbank<\/strong>.org<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>The Worcester County Food Bank is a collaboration of local non-profit human and social service providers, donors from the food industry, corporate, government, civic and private sectors, and individual volunteers whose support and partnership is focused on \"providing relief from hunger\" to friends and neighbors in Central Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Since its incorporation in 1982 the Worcester County Food Bank has collected and distributed more than 50 million pounds of food and grocery product through a network of local shelters, food pantries, senior centers, residential rehabilitation programs, soup kitchens, after-school programs and neighborhood centers that help feed hungry people of all ages in 60 communities in Central Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<p><strong>MASS 211<\/strong>. Phone number is 211.<br \/>\nThis is a 24 hour information &amp; referral service through United Way of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/orgs\/women-infants-children-nutrition-program\">What does WIC offer? - Health and Human Services - Mass.Gov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/snap\/\">FNS Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.town.northborough.ma.us\/health-human-services-hhs\">Town of Northborough's Department of Health and Human Services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partners Worcester County Food Bank - www.foodbank.org The Worcester County Food Bank is a collaboration of local non-profit human and social service providers, donors from the food industry, corporate, government, civic and private sectors, and individual volunteers whose support and partnership is focused on \"providing relief from hunger\" to friends and neighbors in Central Massachusetts. <a href=\"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/?page_id=56\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Resources &#038; Partners\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","h-entry","hentry","h-as-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfpantry.org\/nfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}