Food banks have a bigger presence in the U.S. than ever. It’s not just that millions of Americans turned to food banks for the first time during the pandemic. It’s also that food banks are exploding in terms of sheer footprint. Most prominent is Atlanta Community Food Bank’s new 345,000…
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Earlier this month, Sandy Swett wasn’t sure how the Harrison Food Bank could supply Thanksgiving to families in need this year. Swett is the Maine-based organization’s Founder and Operations Manager. On October 21, she learned that the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Food Assistance Program did not—and could not—deliver her organization’s…
Second Harvest Heartland is prepared to greatly increase the amount of meat it can accept and distribute, thanks to a temperature-controlled clean room it opened this summer. The cold clean room lets the food bank accept larger quantities of bulk meat donations by ensuring the safety and hygiene of the…
When you read the word blockchain, a technology initially used for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, a question that might come to mind might be: “What does this have to do with my food bank?” While it’s true that blockchain was initially used for the financial sector, advocates for the technology tout…
To achieve its goal of ending food insecurity in Maine, Good Shepherd Food Bank is enlisting the help of broccoli. The food bank, Maine’s largest, is starting a produce-processing company called Harvesting Good that will offer frozen produce year round to retail and institutional customers. The goal of the company…
It’s fair to say that food banks loved the fresh produce they received from the Farmers to Families Food Box program, but they did not like the way it was distributed. As that program comes to a close, the new program set to take its place starting in May hits…
Move For Hunger — a national nonprofit that started out by helping people donate their food when they move — is expanding into transporting truckloads of perishable food on behalf of food banks. Move For Hunger’s connections with the trucking industry run deep, extending to a 100-year-old New Jersey family…
Most people who work at a food pantry can relate to this scenario: a shortage of something essential like peanut butter leads to a trip to the grocery store, just in time for the next distribution. Last-minute scrambles like these may be common, but they’re also “a terrible use of…
Feeding South Florida didn’t need a strategic analysis to know it lacked the storage space to handle the enormous volume of food coming into its warehouse this spring to meet demand generated by the pandemic. “You could see that an incoming pallet was blocking an aisle, but there was nowhere…