Earlier this year, Food Bank News wrote about home delivery being at a crossroads. Food banks were trying to figure out if they could keep home deliveries going, even though pandemic-era aid to support the deliveries was becoming less available. A new report from Urban Institute now offers some clarity…
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Like many food banks, One Generation Away, a ten-year-old independent food bank in Tennessee, recently partnered with DoorDash to expand its home delivery service. Then it took home delivery one step further by creating a branded program that has the potential to operate nationally. For clients, using the food bank’s…
Amazon and DoorDash have done a lot to help food banks and pantries rev up home deliveries, but they are not the only game in town when it comes to supporting home delivery. Vivery Idea Lab Vivery Idea Lab, an incubator founded by Chicago-based Thierer Family Foundation, last month announced…
Home delivery looks to be at an inflection point. Many hunger relief organizations took home delivery from zero to sixty in recent years, fueled by pandemic demand, as well as generous aid from government and private companies like Amazon and DoorDash. Now, as some of that aid dries up, there…
Wheel a cart around any grocery store in a large metropolitan area these days, and you’ll run into workers who are shopping on behalf of people who’ve placed orders from home. These digital sales make up just 11.2% of the U.S. grocery market, but rapid adoption is expected to nearly…
A survey of 50 food banks of all sizes found that larger food banks are more likely to rely on technology and operations partners for help in making home deliveries, bringing more efficiency to their programs. Home deliveries, rarely offered by food banks before the pandemic, have become much more…
Home deliveries are among the most labor-intensive, challenging services that a food bank could provide. During the pandemic, many food banks stepped up to the challenge as a way to expand access to food. Now they are working to keep home deliveries going. Aside from the logistics of managing drivers,…
Link2Feed, a leading provider of software to food banks and food pantries, is poised to help hunger relief orgs deliver on home deliveries through a partnership with DoorDash. Link2Feed customers — there are about 12,000 of them — will be able to access the same software DoorDash uses to manage…
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino is like many other food banks in starting a home delivery program during Covid-19 and making it permanent. Now, the food bank’s home delivery service looks something like Uber Eats, encompassing more than 1,000 volunteers over a vast portion of California. From March to December…