Press and news
If you’d like to feature Caring for Friends™ in a story, please contact:
Jeannette Fournier
Executive Director
jfournier@caringforfriends.org
Please browse our press materials below.
- Caring for Friends Responds to Food Insecurity Among Philadelphia Restaurant Workers 1/18/2021-1/30/2021
- Tickets available here (sold out): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/servebetter-iv-tickets-136945410409
- Announcing Our New Name
- Caring for Friends–A Brief History
- Caring-for-Friends-Press-Announcement
Please browse our media mentions below.
- ABC6 – “Group Prepares Thousands of Meals for Struggling Restaurant Workers“
- Nonprofit Pro (Cover Story) – “What Nonprofits Have Learned From a Very Unpredictable Year” by Nhu Te
- CBS3 (8/2020): “Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office Partners with Local Community Groups to Ensure Families in Need have Food.”
- The Chestnut Hill Local (5/2020): “Local food pantries have mobilized to help those need.”
- The Times Herald:(5/2020) “Patrician Society meeting increased demand for food“
- MLB.com (5/2020): “Phillies pitch in to help food pantries”
- Fox 29 (video-5/2020): “Phillies teaming up with partners to provide hunger relief during the pandemic”
- Catholic Philly (4/2020): Cross country delivery helps fight Philly-area hunger during pandemic
- Fox 29 (video – 4/2020): Councilman Bobby Henon, Caring for Friends support seniors facing food insecurity
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (4/2020): “PHL COVID FUND awards $2.4 million in latest grants to area nonprofits.”
- The Philadelphia Citizen: (3/2020) “Citizen of the Week Piseitta Arrington”
- Catholic Philly (3/2020): “With plenty of food aid, group needs volunteers to deliver”
- City Wide: (11/2019) “Caring for Friends: Providing Meals and Companionship for Senior Citizens in Need”
- Philadelphia Magazine: (10/2019) “3 Philadelphia Volunteer Opportunities”
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (10/2019): “How a Philly charity is coping as employers eclipse churches as a source of volunteers”
- CatholicPhilly.com (10/2019): “Caring for Friends touts awardees who aid the hungry”
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy: (9/2019) Transitions