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Partner Insight: Optimizing Cooperative Purchasing Programs – From Opportunity to Impact

Food banks play an essential role in the U.S. food system as aggregators of value. Like a wholesaler or regional distribution center for a retailer, the food bank orchestrates bulk inputs to hunger relief, breaks bulk, and redistributes that value in right-sized quantities to and through their affiliated agencies. The…

Food Bank Expands Poverty-Fighting Program

Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana is expanding a multi-pronged program it developed that aims to lift people out of poverty. A three-year strategic plan, to be initiated this year, will expand the poverty-fighting program into each area of the food bank’s eight-county footprint, one county at a…

Who Are Food Banking’s Next Leaders?

Food banking is a bit of an odd duck of the nonprofit world.  It involves all the fundraising and programming of most nonprofits, but also encompasses a heavy-duty operational aspect  – with warehouses, trucks, inventories, and distribution points to manage. “It’s logistics with a mission,” said Brian Greene, CEO of…

What Will Happen to SNAP?

As is the case when any new administration comes into office, changes to existing government programs can be expected. To those working in hunger relief, the future of the Farm Bill is of particular importance since it governs SNAP, the federal nutrition program that gets food to more than 42…