{"id":56769,"date":"2018-05-25T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=56769"},"modified":"2018-05-25T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:00:27","slug":"ross-medical-lansing-supports-local-greater-lansing-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-medical-lansing-supports-local-greater-lansing-food-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Medical in Lansing Supports Local Greater Lansing Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Lansing-Helps-Greater-Lansing-Food-Bank-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Medical Education Center Lansing Helps Greater Lansing Food Bank\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Lansing-Helps-Greater-Lansing-Food-Bank-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Lansing-Helps-Greater-Lansing-Food-Bank-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Lansing-Helps-Greater-Lansing-Food-Bank.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The staff and students of <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/campus\/mi\/lansing.php\">Ross Medical Education Center of Lansing, Michigan<\/a> went all out this year to collect food for the annual Ross Company Wide Food Drive during the month of March. Evening Office Assistant Alyssa Holley, tapped into her creative talents to construct a Dr. Seuss-like tree of opportunity for giving, which inspired everyone at the campus with Alyssa\u2019s catchphrase\u2026 \u201cLet\u2019s CAN Hunger!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the month of March, everyone\u2019s generous donations of non-perishable food items were displayed on a table alongside Alyssa\u2019s clever signs that read \u201cOne can\u2026 Two can\u2026 Who can\u2026 You can!\u201d before being packed up and delivered to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greaterlansingfoodbank.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Lansing Food Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Greater Lansing Food Bank\u2019s website, \u201c7,144,000+ meals were served to those in need during 2017.\u201d The Greater Lansing Food Bank distributes food throughout seven counties: Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Clare, Isabella, Gratiot, and Shiawassee. Their website further notes that the Greater Lansing Food Bank has been in existence since 1981: \u201cDuring the recession of 1981, layoffs left many families in the Greater Lansing area without resources. Some faced tough choices: whether to pay for housing, medicine, utilities or food. To help ensure that no one in our community had to go hungry, community leaders David Hollister, Camille Abood, Patrick Babcock, and William Long founded the Greater Lansing Food Alliance\u2014now known as the Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB).\u201d The organization\u2019s vision is, simply put, to create \u201ca hunger free community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff and students at Ross\u2019 Lansing campus were delighted with the outcome of this year\u2019s drive, which almost quadrupled last year\u2019s efforts! When several huge boxes of food were delivered to the Greater Lansing Food Bank, the donations weighed in at an impressive 156 pounds\u2014equivalent to 130 meals! Kimberly May, a student in the <a href=\"\/programs\/medical-assistant\/\">Lansing Medical Assistant program<\/a>, was pleased to be a part of this worthwhile drive, \u201cthere is always someone more in need than me. So as long as I can help I will!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on how you can support this invaluable community resource, please visit the Greater Lansing Food Bank\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greaterlansingfoodbank.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.greaterlansingfoodbank.org<\/a> or contact them by telephone at 517-908-3680. Please help them continue to answer the call of so many among us who struggle daily to feed themselves and their families. <\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staff and students of Ross Medical Education Center of Lansing, Michigan went all out this year to collect food&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-medical-lansing-supports-local-greater-lansing-food-bank\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}