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…
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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…
When Food Share of Ventura County in California started up a drive-through distribution program during Covid, it expected to run it for 60 days. Today, the drive-through is still going strong, pumping out tons of food to up to 1,000 cars every Wednesday. The staying power of the drive-through at…
Hatch for Hunger, an entrepreneurial supplier of animal protein to food banks, is stepping up to a new huge goal with the announcement last month of a new coalition. With over 102 million protein meals delivered to 120 food banks in 2025, ten-year-old Hatch has proven successful at scaling its…
When Tom Nardacci, CEO of New York State’s Regional Food Bank, considers opportunities for sourcing more food, he sees limits to the amount of food that can be donated, rescued, or government-supplied. He also sees plenty of farms. That landscape is the reason behind a new strategy putting much more…
A new program at Community Food Share of Colorado underscores the value of listening to community members with lived experience of food insecurity. The program, about to be expanded, never would have come into fruition if not for the input from people living in low-income, low food-access communities. Their viewpoint…
Food banks and farms have long had a special bond, which is proving to have staying power, even without the aid of federal funding. Building ties with local farms was made easy for many food banks during the Biden Administration, thanks to targeted funding from the Local Food Purchase Assistance…