Serving Our Kids is honored to receive the Partner Award for Best In Childhood Nutrition from Three Square, the largest food bank in Southern Nevada. it partners with a nonprofit and community organizations to collect, store and distribute food to families, children and seniors in need.
“Serving Our Kids earned this award because of its unwavering focus on helping food-insecure children and its ability to consistently deliver weekend meal bags to thousands of elementary and middle school students every week during the school year,” said Tara Nerida, Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Three Square.
Tara also cited our committed, grassroots community support and efficient operations as making “a real and lasting impact in the fight against childhood hunger.”
SOK and Three Square work closely to coordinate operations and share resources to ensure that more children receive the food they need so they can focus on their future, instead of their next meal.
Three Square’s Childhood Programs Manager Aaliyah Goodie believes our partnership will become even more important as families, schools and communities face steep reductions in federal assistance programs.
“There will be less food and funding coming in while more of our neighbors will be seeking help,” Aaliyah said. “Right now, more than 377,000 Southern Nevadans, including one in five children, are already dealing with food insecurity or hunger. Thousands more could be affected in the near future.”
“Serving Our Kids is thankful and grateful for this award and our community partnership with Three Square,” said SOK CEO Laurie Tanakaya. “Together, we will meet these new challenges and win the fight against child hunger across the Las Vegas valley.”