For two years in a row after the pandemic, the amount of revenue generated by the top 300 food banks remained at about $16 billion, following a pandemic-era high of nearly $19 billion. It seemed logical to assume that food bank revenue had settled into a post-pandemic lull, and would…
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Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. Please note: Feeding America food banks are indicated in orange Independent food banks are shown in blue, and Feeding America affiliates are depicted in green. Please see…
Food banks are getting creative as they seek to keep home deliveries going. New distribution patterns, new sources of funding and new technologies are all part of the exploration into how to sustain home deliveries, now that the firehose of pandemic-era support for delivery has retreated. With funding uncertain and…
Tarrant Area Food Bank put a high-tech twist on home deliveries in an experiment that tested the ability of both aerial and terrestrial drones to get food to people. Working with the city of Arlington and the University of Texas in Arlington, the food bank ferried boxes of non-perishable food…
Craig Gundersen, Ph.D., the creator of Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap and a professor at Baylor University, is an expert on food insecurity and SNAP. He’s a well-known speaker and researcher on both topics, and has spent much of the last 30 years of his academic career helping to…
With uncertainty riding high these days, many food banks are focused on the basic task of pushing out more food through their pantry networks. At the same time, some are also seeing the value of building up their pantry networks in search of longer-term solutions to food insecurity. Capacity building…
Our annual scan of the website advocacy efforts of the top 100 food banks (by revenue) uncovered a noticeable trend toward food banks seeking to engage visitors in activities related to voting. Their efforts ran the gamut, from passing along basic information on how the government works, to nudging people…
For all the talk about how important food is to health, it can be surprisingly difficult to get healthcare providers to refer patients to sources of healthy food. Island Harvest Food Bank has found a way around that issue by embedding its own dieticians in area hospitals and clinics. The…
Food drives sometimes get maligned for being more trouble than they’re worth, but that’s not the case with a grassroots effort to engage the legal community in raising food and funds. Known as Food from the Bar, the national grassroots campaign taps the energy and talent of local law firms,…