The Greater Chicago Food Depository is redefining itself. The nation’s 12th-largest food bank is in the beginning stages of a multi-year, multi-tiered strategy aimed at building connections with community groups that have deep roots in the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods. The goal is to transfer power and resources to grassroots…
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Although Good Shepherd Food Bank has long served diverse communities across Maine, it wasn’t until Covid-19 hit that the organization realized how much variety there was in the food its clients wanted – and how little of that variety it provided. The problem became apparent when fears about how the…
Some food banks, recognizing the heavy burdens faced by some LGBTQ people, are taking extra steps to help this population feel welcome at food distributions. The LGBTQ community faces a food insecurity rate of 27%, according to an April report from The Williams Institute, a researcher on gender identity law.…
At Oregon Food Bank, the path toward greater equity is starting from within. The food bank is one of the few and perhaps the only to have created a senior leadership position dedicated to addressing equity. The person who fills that role, Rut Martinez-Alicea, Director of Equity, People & Culture,…
When the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts took a hard look at food distribution across its four-county network a few years ago, one thing became strikingly clear: access to emergency food was not equitable, and the reason was race. The county with the largest concentration of food insecurity, poverty and…