Category: News

Iowa-based nonprofit Outreach, Inc. welcomes famed Iowa surgeon to lead international missions. DES MOINES, IA – Dr. Deborah Ann Turner of Des Moines joined Outreach, Inc. as VP of International Programs.  Dr. Turner will provide leadership for international programs including Medical Missions, Outreach Children’s Centers, the 8,000 acre Shallom Farm, and the Kid’s Care Child…

Outreach has an easy way for you as an individual, a family, a civic group, a small business, or a faith-based organization to host a small meal packaging event. The Mini-Pack is a great school project for service learning, a reward for a leadership team in a company, or a nonprofit wanting to do a…

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford, hosted the first ever Gubernatorial Inaugural Packaging Event at Columbia, Maryland.  The event was held Sunday afternoon at Howard County Community College. 100,000 Outreach Mac & Cheese meals were provided to the Maryland Food Bank.  Hundreds of volunteers braved the threat of the…

Would you like to make your community hunger-free?  Outreach can help you! In the summer of 2014, Outreach Co-Founder Kathy Hamilton envisioned theHunger-Free Iowa Initiative (can be used in all states).  Outreach excels in bringing communities together at meal packaging events. The idea is to expand the impact of the events and make a communication…

It’s the time of year when people start fresh with New Year’s resolutions and plans to make their life better.  We’d like to suggest a New Year’s resolution that we can help you keep that makes the life of someone else better!  Feed More Hungry People! Helping people feed hungry people is what we do…

If you want to run fast, run alone.  If you want to run far, run with others. – African Proverb You, as a donor, want to know that your gift makes a difference. You’ve scanned the horizon of nonprofits to choose carefully one which will treat your gift with integrity and use it to maximize…

Outreach is pleased to be part of the historic signing by college and university presidents around the world of the President’s Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security at the United Nations in New York City. Over 200 people attended the event. PUSH- Presidents United to Solve Hunger – is an initiative of Universities Fighting World…

You don’t have to fight the crowds to find the perfect present.  You can do it with Outreach!  Here are some suggestions for your gift list: Sponsor a Child with Kids Care- For a little over a dollar a day (you can’t even buy a cup of coffee for that anymore), you can sponsor a…

We need your help to feed Ebola patients in Liberia. In August of this year, Des Moines resident Walter Gwenigale approached Outreach founders Floyd and Kathy Hammer with an official request from the Liberian Ministry of Health to help feed Ebola patients in hospitals.  Walter’s father, Dr. Walter Gwenigale, is the Minister of Health in…

Floyd Hammer wanted to enjoy retirement and sail the world with his wife, Kathy. Then a friend invited them to go to Tanzania, Africa, to remodel an old Leprosy hospital and build an AIDs hospice. Since Floyd owned a construction company-among many other successful businesses (they owned the first plastics recycling plant in the U.S.)-…