Many people working in hunger relief lament the difficulty of eliminating hunger, a problem that seems like it should be easily resolved, given the world of plenty that we live in. But few respond to the issue by taking on a global research project involving travel to more than 90…
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Some of the things that make Food is Medicine attractive to community-based organizations also make it attractive to for-profit companies. Both, for example, would like to use the insurance reimbursements they get for providing healthy food to help sustain their operations. That tension has helped propel an action plan designed…
Reinvestment Partners has been on a mission to make its produce-prescription program a standard healthcare service that can be reimbursed by insurers. The results of its latest clinical trial move it one step closer to that goal, with some caveats. The Durham, N.C.-based nonprofit announced in November that a randomized…
GUEST POST FROM SINA ANSARI OF DePAUL UNIVERSITY — On a typical day, food banks match warehouse inventory to partner agency requests and dispatch drivers along a planned route. While agencies submit their requests in advance, final deliveries often differ as real-time inventory fluctuates. At each stop, teams unload to…
Not many food banks produce detailed reports about the level of food insecurity throughout their service areas, but the ones that do cite numerous benefits. With the USDA ceasing publication of its annual household food security report, the question of whether more food banks should fill the information gap by…
Students who succeeded in securing a total of $1 million in the Michigan state budget to address college food insecurity achieved their goal in part by placing their fellow students’ stories at the center of their campaign. In 2024, Michigan State University’s Spartan Food Security Council secured a $500,000 line…
A Food is Medicine program at Albany, NY-based Regional Food Bank is succeeding in helping diabetes patients measurably improve their health. The food bank’s 12-week Food Farmacy program provides patient households with weekly boxes of healthy food, along with weekly virtual nutrition counseling sessions. Results show patients significantly improving their…
A visit to San Diego’s Comic Con museum has given rise to a social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego that uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting hunger. Feeding San Diego’s comic book and classroom curriculum, Hunger Action Heroes Unite!, is designed to educate…
In a report that Amazon put out earlier this year about charitable meal delivery programs, it identified various ways to make such programs more sustainable. One suggestion, gleaned from focus groups of food bankers, was to have third-party meal-delivery providers (like Amazon and DoorDash) provide longer-term agreements to their partner…