When Dave Krepcho was the CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, he and his friends in food banking across the country would often reflect on the massive impact of the food banking movement over the years and the need to document it. “Somebody should write a book!”…
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Many food bank CEOs bring elements of their prior careers to their current jobs (as Food Bank News wrote about here). The background of Erik Talkin – a food bank CEO who is a former screenwriter and all-around creative person with a Master of Fine Arts – has led to…
For donors and volunteers, the charitable food system offers a multitude of ways to help out in the community. More people donate to food drives every year than watch the Super Bowl, while wide swaths of the population volunteer at the estimated 60,000 food pantries and programs across the country…
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…
There is a running motif in Jose Andres’ illuminating book, We Fed an Island, in which Andres and his crew enter through the backdoor of the Puerto Rico Convention Center so they can take part in official meetings about restoring order after Hurricane Maria. Andres has no invitation nor security…
To the people who work or volunteer at the nation’s food banks, the premise of Andrew Fisher’s book, Big Hunger, smarts. He means Big Hunger in the same sense as Big Data, Big Ag, or Big Tech — a powerful, behind-the-scenes force adept at manipulating the market, often to benefit…