Key Points: • Solidarity Sandy Springs provides more than one million pounds of food to its clients annually. • Sandy Springs awards a $25,000 grant to Solidarity Sandy Springs. • The grant funds fresh produce purchases, enabling food pantry visitors to take home groceries to supplement their pantries.

Solidarity Sandy Springs co-founder and board member Jennifer Barnes told the Sandy Springs City Council at its Sept. 16 meeting that the organization provides more than one million pounds of food annually to food-insecure families.

Barnes told the council that Solidarity Sandy Springs uses the city’s $25,000 grant to buy fresh produce for its shoppers.

What was started as a temporary emergency food pantry that Barnes and her friend, Sonia Simon, thought would feed 10 families for two wee

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