<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>It’s a 100,000-Pound Challenge, and no,it’s not a townwide weight-loss promotion, but an endeavor give our community’s neediest neighbors access to some healthy calories.
Organized by the borough-based nonprofit Lunch Break<wm>, a group called Healthy Families: Community Challenge has set its sights on providing fresh produce and fresh meat at no cost to the homeless shelters of the city to increase the nutritional quality of the meal delivery service that distributes about $350 million worth of groceries each year. All food items are provided without identification, and only volunteers are allowed to deliver the food.
The organization is calling it the “100,000-Pound Challenge: Homeless Food Basket and Meals to go” initiative.
Healthy Families, a nonprofit</wm> based in Scranton and now expanding across Pennsylvania, has seen great enthusiasm from both food banks, and