Three Square Appoints Matthew J. Muldoon Chief Development Officer

February 18, 2012

Muldoon and the development team are tasked with raising the annual cash budget for Three Square, enabling continued operation growth until the need for food in this community is met. His responsibilities include managing all elements of individual and corporate fundraising, marketing and public relations, donor acquisition and recognition, and database management among others.

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Living on $4 a day

February 2, 2012
Al Mancini

Is living on $4.06 a day of government "handouts" easier than working? Certain presidential candidates and their supporters seem to think so. I dare them to do what I did last week.

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Experiencing hunger in Las Vegas: $3.39 a day buys little food, lots of lessons

January 30, 2012
J. Patrick Coolican

Try eating on $3.39 a day.

Some Las Vegans learned last week that it's doable but difficult. Luckily for them it was just a one-week experiment, whereas for hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, it's an ongoing challenge.

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Mobile food pantries serving thousands in hard hit areas

January 19, 2012
Jackie Valley

A truck brimming with food - 12,752 pounds worth - rolled up to Grace Immanuel Baptist Church on Bartlett Avenue on Friday afternoon as a growing crowd eagerly eyed its contents.

A dozen volunteers quickly unloaded the food pyramid-worthy assortment of meats, produce, dairy and snack items, careful to avoid the children zipping up and down the pavement.

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Executive Snapshot: Brian Burton

December 19, 2011
Kay Foley

Before coming here in May to become executive director and CEO of Three Square Food Bank, Brian Burton spent 15 years heading up a faith-based food pantry in Dallas. He helped transform the food bank into a vehicle to promote education and break the cycle of poverty.

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Pledges $5 Million to Feed Southern Nevadans in Need

December 14, 2011

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation steps up to ensure struggling Southern Nevada families have the food assistance they need this year, pledging $5 million toward Three Square Food Bank's 2011 - 2012 annual budget. Three million dollars of the pledge are specifically designated as matching funds, calling on the community to meet the full dollar amounty by April 30, 2012.

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Families face difficult choices

November 6, 2011
John L. Smith

The line forms early outside Living Faith Assembly.

Those who come to this nondenominational church on East Charleston Boulevard brave the morning chill or wait in their vehicles for up to three hours for the truck from Three Square food bank to roll in for its Wednesday delivery.

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Couple volunteer with Three Square to make children's lives just a little bit better

October 18, 2011
Kristi Jourdan

Tummies growl. Empty stomachs ache with sharp hunger pangs. Brains struggle to concentrate on school work.

When Jeff and Margie Davis moved to North Las Vegas from Huntington Beach, Calif., four years ago, they chouldn't imagine a world in which children went to school hungry.

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Need for food reaches new demographics

October 15, 2011
Joe Schoenmann

In a small space on the second floor of the Promenade Mall, across Maryland Parkway from UNLV, something unusual is happening this semester. Close as it is to campus, it would be ideal for study groups or research collaborations.

But the space isn't used for either of those. It's a food bank for graduate students and UNLV employees.

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Haute Event: DISH serves Up Food and Sugar Ray in the Fight Against Hunger Benefitting Three Square Food Bank

September 27, 2011
Susan Stapleton

Three Square Food Bank hosted its annual benefit DISH Las Vegas, presented by Smith's Food & Drug Stores, last Thursday night at the Palms Pool & Bungalows.

Restaurant Week aids food bank through dining deals

August 26, 2011
Heidi Knapp Rinella

Five years ago, Three Square was a fledgling food bank that was trying to raise both funds and awareness about hunger in Southern Nevada.

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Las Vegas Restaurant Week Returns; Expands To Two Weeks

August 29, 2011

Now in it’s fifth year, Las Vegas Restaurant Week gives restaurants in our community the opportunity to give back through the culinary arts.

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Meet Brian Burton: Hungry for Charity

August 22, 2011
By Erin Dostal

Three Square food bank CEO Brian Burton has only been in Las Vegas for a couple of months, but the nonprofit star with more than two decades of experience is already making quite an impact.

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'Food rescue' program utilizes stores, bakeries to help others

August 14, 2011
By Heidi Knapp Rinella

On the kind of summer day that defines August in Southern Nevada, a group of about 25 people, most of them gripping water bottles, gathered in the unrelenting sun in the parking lot of Progressive Pilgrim Fellowship on Mojave Road.

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Good eats fund a good cause at Las Vegas Restaurant Week

August 18, 2011
By Mary Forgione