Tarrant Area Food Bank’s pantry network had grown from less than 400 agencies to 665 when President and CEO Julie Butner decided to take a closer look at how food was being distributed throughout the food bank’s 13-county service area in North Texas. Dozens of outlets had been added during…
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H.R. 1, the massive budget package passed into law last summer, brought a lot of financial hardship to food banks in the form of funding cuts. But it also preserved a popular federal tax credit program designed to help community institutions raise needed funds. Houston Food Bank is among the…
For food banks struggling to get resources, the idea of being able to earn some revenue – rather than always rely on government or charitable support – can be attractive. In Canada, Toronto-based North York Harvest Food Bank is championing this approach, generating between $3 million and $4 million a…
Nearly two years following Hurricane Helene’s destruction, MANNA FoodBank in Asheville, N.C. is rebuilding with resilience in mind. It is one of a growing number of food banks to utilize rooftop solar panels, in this case to power its newly opened facility, which includes 16,500 square feet for cold storage.…
Long-standing tax incentives for renewable energy may have expired this month, but that has not dampened enthusiasm for solar projects among a growing set of food banks. Commercial solar projects that begin after July 3, 2026 are no longer eligible for a federal tax rebate, which previously allowed organizations to…
About two years ago, Greater Cleveland Food Bank and Feeding Tampa Bay both pioneered a model of food banking that makes it easy for neighbors to access a wide variety of social services at the same time they get their food. The approach has been successful enough that both are…
Central Texas Food Bank is like many food banks in opening a new distribution facility, but also stands apart for its extensive use of data to determine where to go. Its new 64,000-square-foot facility includes a warehouse, a commercial kitchen, an on-site market and a community garden. Perhaps most important,…
When Food Share of Ventura County in California started up a drive-through distribution program during Covid, it expected to run it for 60 days. Today, the drive-through is still going strong, pumping out tons of food to up to 1,000 cars every Wednesday. The staying power of the drive-through at…
When Tom Nardacci, CEO of New York State’s Regional Food Bank, considers opportunities for sourcing more food, he sees limits to the amount of food that can be donated, rescued, or government-supplied. He also sees plenty of farms. That landscape is the reason behind a new strategy putting much more…