There are a lot of ways for food banks to get into Food is Medicine. For Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County, the pathway to Food is Medicine involved CEO Erica Padilla-Chavez’s long background in health and human services; a deep dive into community-building during the pandemic, and a…
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Like many food banks, Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin began supporting local farmers by buying food from them during the pandemic. Before long, it was running a large farm-to-food bank program, purchasing produce at market rates from 55 farmers. Recently, it figured out another way to support even more…
Midwest Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that actively serves 3.6 million people across 2,000+ pantries in the U.S and Canada through an “aggregator extended affiliate network model” aimed to alleviate hunger and poverty by gathering and distributing food donations to not-for-profits and disaster sites without cost to the recipients.…