Two years ago, Feeding America announced an initiative to recover more food from farmers, manufacturers, and especially retailers. As that initiative continues to unfold, food banks have gotten more strategic about how they go about rescuing food from retail grocers. Conversations during and after Fresh Connect Central’s Power of Partnerships…
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Hatch for Hunger, an entrepreneurial supplier of animal protein to food banks, is stepping up to a new huge goal with the announcement last month of a new coalition. With over 102 million protein meals delivered to 120 food banks in 2025, ten-year-old Hatch has proven successful at scaling its…
As federal funding for food assistance becomes increasingly erratic, food banks are turning to food streams they can more readily control. High on the strategic to-do list for many food banks is to get more food from local grocers, making our recent webinar on “Food Sourcing in a Time of…
In 2022, when a California law went into effect requiring restaurants and other food producers to donate their surplus edible food rather than send it to landfills, no one knew what sort of impact the law would have. As the first of ten such laws passed nationwide aimed at reducing…
With federal funding becoming scarce, food banks are turning more attention to a source of food that has long been a mainstay – food donations from local grocers. Whether they are relatively new to the practice or have been at it for a while, food banks are recognizing that retail…
During the pandemic, the Minn.-based hunger relief organization Open Cupboard gained two key insights that helped guide the opening of its newest free-food market. The first was that people don’t want to have to answer a lot of questions to gain access to food. The second was that a community’s…
Every year, vast quantities of nutritious produce go to waste, even as food insecurity continues to rise. What if this unwanted produce could instead be transformed into shelf-stable meals that nourish food-insecure communities, support regional farmers, and help the planet? Anna Hammond asked this question – and then created an…
DC Central Kitchen is gearing up to incorporate plant-based meat as a central protein in the 16,000 community meals it produces daily. The alternative meat is expected to help the organization realize significant savings in both sourcing and labor costs, while also bolstering its commitment to sustaining the environment. The…
City Harvest’s approach to food drives is to cast a wide net. The New York City-based food bank – one of the largest in the country – sees food drives as an effective way for everyday New Yorkers to get engaged with its mission to end hunger in NYC. So…