GUEST POST FROM ANDREA WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT OF OREGON FOOD BANK – My great-grandmother Francisca grew food her entire life. However, at times, even she didn’t have enough to eat. I have thought about that contradiction for as long as I can remember. A woman whose hands fed others went to…
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As a professor, John Lowrey has spent years studying how food donations move from grocery stores to food banks, and he thinks he has found a way to increase that volume. He developed an app called FoodALERT, designed to make it easier for food banks and retail grocers to communicate…
GUEST POST FROM KRISTIN FROST ALBRECHT OF THE FOOD BASKET, INC. – My office is a windowless “cave,” a repurposed corner of a warehouse in Hilo, on Hawaiʻi Island, with a mouse hole in the wall that predates my tenure. Today, that hole is plugged with a bright orange plastic…
Hunger relief leaders in New York City lent positive but guarded support for an unusual plan by the city’s new mayor to bring down the cost of groceries. Elected in November on a platform of affordability, Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to open five city-owned grocery stores that would sell food…
PARTNER INSIGHT FROM TRELLUS SAME-DAY HOME DELIVERY — Hunger in America is often viewed as a supply problem. But for millions of families, the food already exists. The real challenge is getting it to them. Nearly 47 million Americans experience food insecurity each year, and for many, transportation is one…
Creating and implementing a nutrition policy can be a daunting task, but it’s possible to do it step by step, taking advantage of the many tools available to make it easier. HER Guidelines The most important of these may be the Healthy Eating Research guidelines. Released in 2020, the guidelines…
Food banks broke the record books in 2025 in terms of raising funds and growing donors, outperforming even Covid-era results. The government shutdown during the fall, combined with ongoing reductions in SNAP funding, drove a year-end surge in crisis-driven fundraising, according to RKD Group’s 2025 food bank benchmark report, which…
Many food banks operate agency co‑op purchasing programs, but few fully optimize them. One mid-sized food bank recently demonstrated how much untapped potential these programs hold. Without adding warehouse space, hiring staff, or investing in new infrastructure, the organization increased annual co‑op revenue from $72,000 to more than $600,000. At…
After only one year of having a nutrition policy, Ferndale Food Bank of Washington state can’t imagine operating without one. Getting a nutrition policy in place went hand in hand with maturing from a very small operation into one that now serves nearly 300 people a week. As demand grew,…