2024 was a big year for Alameda County Community Food Bank. In February, it became one of the first food banks in the country to get paid by an insurer for providing healthy food to patients, marking the start of a Food is Medicine effort that it expects will generate…
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The CEOs of our Food Bank CEO Roundtable considered how the results of the presidential election might impact charitable and federal food assistance in the coming years. There was concern about the Farm Bill, which continues to be under debate (see our article here) and has important implications for how…
Many food bank leaders arrive at the position because they have a background in fundraising or sometimes finance or banking. Healthcare and the military also mark the pathways of some leaders. For Andrea Williams, the newly named President of Oregon Food Bank, the throughline is her focus on racial and…
The devastation that befell MANNA FoodBank, whose Asheville, N.C.-based headquarters and warehouse were completely destroyed during Hurricane Helene, unfolded slowly at first, and then suddenly. As the storm was actively raging during the morning of Friday, Sept. 27, CEO Claire Neal was “obsessively” checking an app that tracked river levels.…
Just over a year into leading the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, Elizabeth McCarthy is proving to be a quick study of hunger relief, while also putting her own spin on things. McCarthy became President and CEO of CFBNJ last July, following decades of working at various multi-service nonprofits,…
Feeding Tampa Bay’s new $60 million facility has all the things a food bank needs to be able to meet increasing demand for food – like excess capacity in its dry warehouse, extra dock doors, and additional flooring around its cooler and freezer for possible expansion. Despite all its preparations…
Food is Medicine offers incredible opportunities to use federal and state healthcare dollars to provide people with nutritious food. One issue is that everyone wants in on that opportunity. Food banks are well-positioned to receive government funds to do Food is Medicine. So are a growing number of private food…
Linda Nageotte may have been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Feeding America last July, but in practice she is more like Convener in Chief. One of her mandates is to develop a strategic framework for the Feeding America network of 200 food banks and additional affiliated food banks,…
Food banks typically consider the pantries in their network to be their “customers,” which keeps them one step removed from the people who actually go to the pantries. Matt Habash, CEO of Mid-Ohio Food Collective, in contrast, has spent more than a decade trying to get his organization closer to…