The most crucial ingredient in Our Neighbors Table’s plan to bring food security to its region by 2029 is not food — it’s community involvement via an advisory group of local organizations. Its Food Security Advisory Group, which includes local town officials, health care providers, schools and councils on aging,…
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As the biggest news story of 2020, Covid-19 played a role in the conversation at Food Bank News’ CEO roundtable discussion, held online in early November. But more prominent were perennial questions about ways in which the problem of hunger should be framed and solved. There were unexpectedly positive outcomes…
NOVEMBER 17, 2020 — Most years, I read the news about the Nobel Peace Prize as many Americans might: with a vague sense of pride by association if the winners are from the U.S. But recently, I was overcome with excitement at the announcement that the World Food Programme (WFP)…
While Halloween has come and gone, and the specters of electoral politics wane, at least one monster remains. Or, that’s what Lulu and the Hunger Monster, a recently published children’s book by Foodbank of Santa Barbara County CEO Erik Talkin, would have you believe. Lulu and the Hunger Monster is…
A food bank in Missouri has shown in a pilot that it can improve health outcomes by giving people nutritious food. Now it wants to conduct a more formal test that would prove it to insurers. Operation Food Search of St. Louis is about to embark on a three-year randomized,…
Feeding South Florida didn’t need a strategic analysis to know it lacked the storage space to handle the enormous volume of food coming into its warehouse this spring to meet demand generated by the pandemic. “You could see that an incoming pallet was blocking an aisle, but there was nowhere…
As a relatively new organization — only ten years old — Feeding Children Everywhere has the benefit of not being tied to legacy notions of how things are done. So its embrace of a virtual food bank model in response to Covid-19 has been seamless. Under its virtual model, the…
Welcome to the Food Bank News ranking of largest 100 food banks. [For our latest information on the scope of the food banking sector, please see our 2021 Directory of the Top 300 Food Banks.] While there are many ways for a food bank to be “tops,” our ranking is…
Food banks serving far-flung rural populations may soon have a friend in John Kane. The Houston-based philanthropist and former materials engineer is hatching a visionary plan that would fund, build and open about 100 warehouses across the country, all aimed at providing logistics help for organizations that distribute food in…