The White House today released its national strategy for ending hunger and increasing healthy eating by 2030, one day ahead of its historic convening on hunger, nutrition and health. Here are ten things – relevant to the hunger-relief sector – that caught our eye. The Administration is embracing school meals.…
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Feeding America’s report to inform the upcoming White House Conference, released today, comes exactly one month after another influential group known as the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, released its own report. Both reports are aligned along certain high-level policy recommendations, including expanding SNAP so that benefit levels…
Of the 21 members of the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, only one – Catherine D’Amato, President and CEO of Greater Boston Food Bank – brought direct experience in food banking to the table. The Task Force’s recently issued report adds a loud voice to those seeking to…
With the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health looming, food bankers have identified improved access to healthy food as a high-priority outcome, though they are only cautiously optimistic that this and other goals can be achieved. The White House conference, scheduled for sometime in September, comes more than…
Just about every week, the Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School fields questions from organizations that are concerned about their liability related to donated food. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, passed in 1996, was designed to encourage…
Food banks agree that demand for food assistance has remained unusually high, even as the pandemic has eased. Now Feeding America has put a number on that demand. In a report released last week, it found that an estimated 53 million people received charitable food assistance in 2021. That’s down…
When Susannah Morgan started working in hunger relief 26 years ago, she believed that getting more food to more people was the answer to eliminating hunger. Now she understands the problem of hunger differently – and it’s changing everything about the way she approaches her job as CEO of Oregon…
When food banks follow the guidance of their clients, they often find themselves advocating about issues they hadn’t realized were so relevant to food insecurity. Lobbying for community-oriented policing, more grocery stores and telephone-based signatures for SNAP are among the advocacy efforts some food banks are newly engaged in, thanks…
I have a crinkled $20 bill in my pocket, and I’m standing in the first aisle of the Save-A-Lot in Kent, Ohio, trying to make the paper a little bit thicker so it can last for the next 10 days. It’s not the first time I’ve been here, but I…