Let’s Eat is looking for deserving families to help out this Christmas with gifts, clothing, toys and food. If you know a family in need for the holidays please reach out to John with family names and details. Email jpscollan@letseatinc.org to nominate a deserving family in Greater Baltimore.

Let’s Eat CEO and Board Chairman, John P. Scollan, announced today the Let’s Eat Board of Directors has selected their 2026 Humanitarian of the Year. This award acknowledges the person who made the greatest contribution to our mission in terms of philanthropy and servant leadership. The winner’s name will be made public at a ceremony in early December. This is the third consecutive year that Let’s Eat has recognized a special individual who makes our nonprofit better.

Your gift will allow Let’s Eat to rescue more food so we can feed more Baltimore area families in need. Please give whatever amount you can because it will impact those who need help most.

The Let’s Eat Board of Directors would like to thank the Baltimore Orioles for their support for three consecutive years. This past September Let’s Eat bought tickets in several sections for a fundraiser, but more importantly we invited a bunch of young kids to be our guests. For several kids it was their first ever Major League Baseball game in the sport’s most wonderful venue. The Orioles Organization believes deeply in philanthropy and that starts at the top with its princ

According to the Federal Government 75% of Americans give to a charity and the latest figures are $600 billion are donated. Hey you 75%, we could use some help as we close out 2026. Please consider a gift for us to feed more families in Greater Baltimore with food.

Let’s Eat Inc. Vice President of Development, Mary M. Shaw, had a remarkable week of accomplishments. Mary was the architect of a highly complex grant application for a very significant grant which would potentially impact our operations for quite a long period of time. Also, with support from the Let’s Eat marketing team, Mary produced a beautiful and visual slide show depicting how we help food insecure families in Greater Baltimore 6 days a week year round. How did we get

BCF, thank you for allowing us to attend last evening’s Annual Meeting. The Foundation and all it does for the people of Baltimore is truly inspiring. Each event we attend motivates all of us at Let’s Eat to do even more for families struggling with enough food. See you next year.

Today, October, 15th, construction begins on our new warehouse in Johnston Square in East Baltimore.

In his book Homo Deus, A Brief History of tomorrow, author Yuval Noah Harari says “In 2014 more than 2.1 billion people were overweight, compared to 850 million who suffered from malnutrition nutrition. Half of humankind is expected to be overweight by 2030. In Greater Baltimore we face the exact same situation. There is plenty of food insecurity in our community and sadly much of the population choose foods which contribute to obesity and diabetes. At Let’s Eat we continue t

As we enter our 4th quarter giving season, I wanted to ask our friends if they have any passive income to share with Let’s Eat? If you have managed your finances well over time and your money makes money then why not help feed those in food distress in Greater Baltimore? Let’s Eat is literally a conduit between grocery stores who have excess food and those families who desperately need food. Please donate some of that passive income to local seniors, children and families.

Thank you to all of the Leadership Theory students at the Whiting School of Engineering who attended our presentation yesterday. We were impressed with your engagement, the quality of your questions and your insights into becoming Servant Leaders. We hope that we have the privilege of visiting next sem

Tomorrow we cannot wait to tell the Let’s Eat story to a class of Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering undergraduates. Each semester we are honored to conduct a leadership lecture to an amazingly talented group of young people. After a visit to the Hopkins Homewood campus, we always feel confident about America’s future if this caliber of people are in charge of our institutions.

The Let’s Eat board of directors wishes to thank the Wolf Family for their support at our Baltimore Orioles game last evening. The family enjoyed each other’s company, watched an Orioles victory and helped feed many local families with food insecurity.

It seems like enough quality fresh foods and proteins are available and there is no shortage of well-intentioned nonprofits who provide a lot of services to the underserved population, but we still cannot help enough of those at the bottom of the poverty rung in American cities and rural communities.

Without access to the internet many families can not find programs with could help them feed their families. Some grocery stores offer shopping services online but with our internet access these families are left behind.

Impoverished families frequently receive unfamiliar vegetables and don’t know how to turn them into inexpensive meals. Food distribution works best when pared with simple recipes, demonstrations and nutrition education.

The lack of dependable refrigeration, adequate kitchens and cooking equipment inhibit the preparation of high nutrient meals. For example, providing 15 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables accomplishes little if the recipient cannot safely store these food.

Many single parent households rely on public transportation for work. Many parents work 2 part time jobs which gives no time to prepare quality meals for their children. These parents need convenience for meals which often comes from a box or a can.

City food deserts are very unhealthy places to live. Convenience stores, Dollar Stores and carry-outs provide virtually zero nutrition to families who live in those neighborhoods.

Affordability. Fresh produce, lean meats, fish, dairy versus calorie dense processed foods; high quality is too costly to healthy food choices.