Two years ago, Feeding America announced an initiative to recover more food from farmers, manufacturers, and especially retailers. As that initiative continues to unfold, food banks have gotten more strategic about how they go about rescuing food from retail grocers. Conversations during and after Fresh Connect Central’s Power of Partnerships…
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St. Mary’s Food Bank in Arizona may be shy of running the nation’s largest home delivery program, but it gets credit for having an ongoing and growing commitment to home delivery that began well before most food banks even considered offering the service. Way before Covid, which is the time…
A company called FreeWill offers a novel pathway for food banks looking to increase giving from estate planning. Noting that 70% of adults in the U.S. do not have a will, FreeWill makes it easy for people to write a no-cost will using online tools. It also makes it easy…
Slowly but surely, artificial intelligence is starting to show up in food bank operations. The use cases are all over the map. Some food banks are focused on improving personal productivity, while others are addressing food bank-wide efficiency. Some are seeking to upgrade applications used internally, while others are deploying…
Nearly two years following Hurricane Helene’s destruction, MANNA FoodBank in Asheville, N.C. is rebuilding with resilience in mind. It is one of a growing number of food banks to utilize rooftop solar panels, in this case to power its newly opened facility, which includes 16,500 square feet for cold storage.…
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…
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…