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…
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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…
The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is celebrating ten years of lifting the voices of people who best understand what it’s like to be food insecure. For ten years, its Speaker Series program has remained focused on training community members with lived experience to become advocates in the…
San Francisco Marin Food Bank is asking its state government for a very small amount of money that it expects will have a very big impact. It introduced a bill late last month that would restore California’s ability to measure statewide food insecurity. Previously, the data was collected as part…
The idea that people have a “right to food” in the U.S. is starting to gain some footing. Perhaps the biggest sign is a resolution passed last month in New Jersey declaring that residents in the state have a fundamental right to adequate food. The ruling comes after nine states…
Not many food banks produce detailed reports about the level of food insecurity throughout their service areas, but the ones that do cite numerous benefits. With the USDA ceasing publication of its annual household food security report, the question of whether more food banks should fill the information gap by…
Houston Food Bank is intent on getting out the vote. In what appears to be a first, the nation’s third-largest food bank is building a network of “civic hubs,” aimed at educating people about the power they have to direct government activities via their right to vote. The initiative advances…
Students who succeeded in securing a total of $1 million in the Michigan state budget to address college food insecurity achieved their goal in part by placing their fellow students’ stories at the center of their campaign. In 2024, Michigan State University’s Spartan Food Security Council secured a $500,000 line…
A visit to San Diego’s Comic Con museum has given rise to a social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego that uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting hunger. Feeding San Diego’s comic book and classroom curriculum, Hunger Action Heroes Unite!, is designed to educate…