Food banks are getting creative as they seek to keep home deliveries going. New distribution patterns, new sources of funding and new technologies are all part of the exploration into how to sustain home deliveries, now that the firehose of pandemic-era support for delivery has retreated. With funding uncertain and…
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Tarrant Area Food Bank put a high-tech twist on home deliveries in an experiment that tested the ability of both aerial and terrestrial drones to get food to people. Working with the city of Arlington and the University of Texas in Arlington, the food bank ferried boxes of non-perishable food…
After seeing clients brace sweltering heat, limited access to bathrooms, and other physical challenges while waiting on pantry lines, The Campaign Against Hunger knew it had to step in. Just before the pandemic hit, the Brooklyn-based hunger relief agency began investigating ways to deliver groceries directly to the doorsteps of…
Earlier this year, Food Bank News wrote about home delivery being at a crossroads. Food banks were trying to figure out if they could keep home deliveries going, even though pandemic-era aid to support the deliveries was becoming less available. A new report from Urban Institute now offers some clarity…
Like many food banks, One Generation Away, a ten-year-old independent food bank in Tennessee, recently partnered with DoorDash to expand its home delivery service. Then it took home delivery one step further by creating a branded program that has the potential to operate nationally. For clients, using the food bank’s…
Amazon and DoorDash have done a lot to help food banks and pantries rev up home deliveries, but they are not the only game in town when it comes to supporting home delivery. Vivery Idea Lab Vivery Idea Lab, an incubator founded by Chicago-based Thierer Family Foundation, last month announced…
Home delivery looks to be at an inflection point. Many hunger relief organizations took home delivery from zero to sixty in recent years, fueled by pandemic demand, as well as generous aid from government and private companies like Amazon and DoorDash. Now, as some of that aid dries up, there…
Wheel a cart around any grocery store in a large metropolitan area these days, and you’ll run into workers who are shopping on behalf of people who’ve placed orders from home. These digital sales make up just 11.2% of the U.S. grocery market, but rapid adoption is expected to nearly…
A survey of 50 food banks of all sizes found that larger food banks are more likely to rely on technology and operations partners for help in making home deliveries, bringing more efficiency to their programs. Home deliveries, rarely offered by food banks before the pandemic, have become much more…