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Duquesne-based Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is asking Facebook users to help it receive a $45,000 grant from Walmart.
A food bank spokeswoman says the giant discount retail chain is donating $3 million to Feeding America food banks and their partner agencies through a program called Fighting Hunger Together.
Grantees are determined by votes via a Facebook application, and participants must vote once per day through April 30. The 40 food banks with the highest votes each win a $45,000 grant.
The money would help provide more than 200,000 meals this summer for needy kids, according to the food bank. For more information, visit the food bank's website.
In other news, the food bank also announced that McKeesport's Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church raised more than $7,000 for the food bank during its lenten fish fry, and that ROTC cadets from West Mifflin Area High School in March collected more than $1,000 and 144 pounds of food for the facility.