FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Aaron Arnold
Phone: (304) 634-8226
Email: aarnold@facinghunger.org
Facing Hunger Foodbank Recipient of Kentucky Power Foundation Grant
September 30, 2025
Huntington, WV – As part of our longtime partnership and support, Facing Hunger Foodbank was recently requested to submit an application for funding from the Kentucky Power Foundation in the amount of $10,000.00. As with all such requests, the food bank dedicated the application toward mobile food distributions in Boyd, Greenup, Lawrence and Martin counties in Kentucky to honor this partnership. In another great end to Hunger Action Month, we received this gracious funding and will direct these funds to our Kentucky neighbors in November and December.
American Electric Power subsidiary Kentucky Power just completed their sixth annual Power Up the Pantry event on Sept. 25th in recognition of Hunger Action Month at multiple locations in Ashland in addition to food drop-off locations in Hazard and Pikeville. Since its inception, Power Up the Pantry has collected thousands of pounds of food and raised thousands of dollars to support the two food banks and their local food pantry partners.
“One thing we did differently this year was we took this program into the schools,” said Kentucky Power External Affairs Manager Ryan Lake. “Poage Elementary donated 525 pounds of food for this event and we worked closely with Holy Family School as well.”
Lake said that hunger remains not just a problem in eastern Kentucky but across the nation. “It’s great to be able to give back to the communities we serve and to work with the Kentucky Power Foundation to help with housing and to fight hunger,” he said. “We were all really excited to be able to get involved with students that want to give back to their community as well through our work in support of Facing Hunger Foodbank and God’s Pantry Food Bank.