{"id":24695,"date":"2025-10-28T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24695\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:18:06","slug":"plano-tops-donations-in-12th-annual-north-texas-food-bank-peanut-butter-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24695\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano tops donations in 12th annual North Texas Food Bank Peanut Butter Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Texas Food Bank\u00a0wrapped up its 12th Annual Peanut Butter Drive, collecting more than $355,000 and approximately 85,000 pounds of peanut butter.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/ntfb-golden-fork-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Texas Food Bank<\/a> recently wrapped up its 12th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntfb.org\/peanutbutterdrive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peanut Butter Drive<\/a>, where cities and organizations compete for peanut butter donations to the food bank all September long for Hunger Action Month.<\/p>\n<p>In total, more than $355,000 and 85,000 pounds of peanut butter were collected throughout September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the drive, North Texas Food Bank held an awards show and celebration on Oct. 21 at NTFB\u2019s Perot Family Campus in Plano. Plano and several Plano-based organizations were among the recognized:<\/p>\n<p>Top City:\u00a0Plano<br \/>\nTop City Per Capita:\u00a0Fairview<br \/>\nTop Company:\u00a0NTT DATA<br \/>\nTop School:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/zaki-scripps-2nd-spelling-bee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rice Middle School<\/a><br \/>\nTop Educational Organization:\u00a0Plano ISD<br \/>\nTop Faith-Based Organization:\u00a0JustServe \/ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<br \/>\nTop Neighborhood:\u00a0Heritage Ranch (Fairview)<br \/>\nTop Community Group:\u00a0HungerMitao<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/ntfb.org\/peanut-butter-drive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peanut Butter Drive<\/a> is about more than jars collected \u2013 it\u2019s about coming together to make sure children in our community don\u2019t go hungry,\u201d said Trisha Cunningham, president and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank. \u201cWe continue to distribute record amounts of food each year, and these contributions help us provide nutritious options for the more than 254,000 children facing hunger in North Texas. We\u2019re deeply grateful to every person and organization that made this year\u2019s drive such a success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s expanded outreach was also made possible by several local volunteer organizations and individuals, including:<\/p>\n<p>James Huang \u2013 Nihao Food Bank Initiative<br \/>\nYing Jia \u2013 Nihao Food Bank Initiative<br \/>\nJustin Bitner \u2013 Ryan LLC<br \/>\nDustin Davis \u2013 Ryan LLC<br \/>\nAmy and Howard Dover \u2013 JustServe<br \/>\nRaj &amp; Anna Asava \u2013 HungerMitao<br \/>\nRick Grady \u2013 Collin County Homeless Coalition<br \/>\nJames Thomas \u2013 Plano Independent School District<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re thankful for the incredible teamwork that made this possible \u2013 from our volunteer committee and participating cities to our partners at Kroger, and the State Fair of Texas for encouraging donations on opening day,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cThis drive truly reflects what\u2019s best about North Texas \u2013 neighbors helping neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas Food Bank\u00a0wrapped up its 12th Annual Peanut Butter Drive, collecting more than $355,000 and approximately 85,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-24695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}