When Danni Gormley saw on the news that the government shutdown was affecting people’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, she made a Facebook post in a Kalispell moms group offering to share her food with those in need.

What began as a simple offer quickly snowballed as others responded, either asking for help or offering to share resources themselves.

“I got way more responses than I ever thought I would, so I started trying to organize donating mothers to receiving mothers, but the requests kept growing and growing,” Gormley said.

So, on Oct. 26, she made a Facebook group of her own, known as the Flathead Valley Giving Table. The impact, Gormley said, was immediate. People began dropping donations on her living room porch or coming by to grab food from a makesh

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