Creating a nutrition policy is one thing; keeping it going is another. It may be no surprise that nutrition policies are at risk of withering without across-the-board buy-in and regular nurturing. The ...

Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is celebrating ten years of lifting the voices of neighbor advocates who understand food ...

Feeding Tampa Bay and Greater Cleveland Food Bank, two pioneers of a new way of doing food banking, are expanding their ...

Our Food Drive Resource Hub aims to help food banks take advantage of the massive inclination among Americans to give generously when it comes to food. The hub offers insights on how to maximize ...

Creating a nutrition policy is one thing; keeping it going is another. One of the first steps the Community Food Bank of New Jersey took to build its nutrition policy was to convene meetings with ...

Nutrition policies are at risk of withering without across-the-board buy-in and regular nurturing. How CFBNJ keeps its going.

Early in March, food banks found out that $500 million for LFPA, a popular federal program that gives them money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, would go away. Toward the end of the month, ...

The standard answer to the question of how many food banks there are is 200, but actually there are many more. Food Bank News counts at least 371. [For our latest information on the full scope of the ...

Hunger relief advocates are starting to move beyond their dismay that the USDA will no longer be publishing its annual survey tracking food insecurity, and are starting to consider the various tools ...

In 2019, when Food Bank News first reported on Feeding America’s MealConnect, the app was being used by 22 food banks and had helped rescue 1.5 billion pounds of food over five years. Now, virtually ...

As the head of Vermont’s only food bank, John Sayles was used to getting the occasional call from a big donor. But when he learned that the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott wanted to hand ...

Giving food pantry clients the ability to choose their own food can feel like a big undertaking, but Lowcountry Food Bank of Charleston, S.C., has developed a flexible, hands-on approach that’s ...