Connecticut Food Bank

For months, Donna Grant had heard and seen predictions for skyrocketing food and fuel prices and the coming of hard economic times.

But then the executive director of the Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group started to see a shift at her nonprofit organization.

“We have absolutely seen people who were donors to our program in the last four to five months come in as clients,” Grant said. “That’s when I knew the tide was shifting markedly.”

She is among many regional nonprofit directors who have seen the hard-hitting reality of the nation’s economic situation, marked by significant increases in food and fuel prices.

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Filed under: Connecticut Food Bank, connecticut, hunger on August 11th, 2008