Our annual scan of the website advocacy efforts of the top 100 food banks (by revenue) uncovered a trend toward food banks seeking to provide deeper information and assistance related to SNAP. SNAP outreach has always been a mainstay of food bank advocacy efforts, but those endeavors shifted into higher…
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In July 2025, a nonprofit in Western New York started taking advantage of the state’s Medicaid 1115 waiver to support its mission of increasing access to healthy food and nutrition education. A year later, the small nonprofit, with a staff of seven, is delivering healthy food boxes and meals to…
Kristina Wong, a performance artist who also goes by the descriptors comedian, writer, actor and Guggenheim Fellow, has found unlikely inspiration in food banks. In March 2025, she premiered her solo show, #FoodBankInfluencer, after becoming acquainted with a hunger relief agency in Los Angeles. The more she learned about the…
Long-standing tax incentives for renewable energy may have expired this month, but that has not dampened enthusiasm for solar projects among a growing set of food banks. Commercial solar projects that begin after July 3, 2026 are no longer eligible for a federal tax rebate, which previously allowed organizations to…
The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is celebrating ten years of lifting the voices of people who best understand what it’s like to be food insecure. For ten years, its Speaker Series program has remained focused on training community members with lived experience to become advocates in the…
About two years ago, Greater Cleveland Food Bank and Feeding Tampa Bay both pioneered a model of food banking that makes it easy for neighbors to access a wide variety of social services at the same time they get their food. The approach has been successful enough that both are…
New York Common Pantry in New York City is rare among hunger relief organizations for offering hygiene services like showers. Recently, the pantry doubled down on hygiene, unveiling a renovation that adds more shower stalls than before, laundry facilities and even a space for haircuts. The upgraded amenities fall under…
Central Texas Food Bank is like many food banks in opening a new distribution facility, but also stands apart for its extensive use of data to determine where to go. Its new 64,000-square-foot facility includes a warehouse, a commercial kitchen, an on-site market and a community garden. Perhaps most important,…
As the SNAP crisis unfolded during last year’s government shutdown, a food pantry in St. Louis identified a gaping problem: It wanted to expand to help more people, but it didn’t know which communities were most affected. There was public data available about food insecurity, as well as information about…