Foodlink’s Curbside Market looks like a typical mobile pantry, but it’s actually so much more. Besides improving access to fruits and vegetables in low-income neighborhoods, Curbside Market is prepping to become the nation’s first mobile provider of WIC staples. Plus, it’s advancing a new model for fruit and vegetable prescriptions,…
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By the end of this month, Buffalo-based FeedMore WNY will be delivering freshly prepared meals to an additional 500 clients in one of the four counties it serves, up from about 50 clients before. That’s just one of the positive results to come out of a pioneering partnership that brings…
When Stephen Giuliano became Executive Director of Operation Sharing in Ontario, Canada, he determined that the best way to address hunger in his community was to shut down the food pantry. In its place is a program, now in its 15th year, in which clients use food cards loaded with…
The Greater Chicago Food Depository’s expansion into meal preparation with the addition of a massive new kitchen adds oomph to a growing frontier of service for the nation’s food banks. With its $50-million commitment to preparing meals, announced last month, the Food Depository is sending a strong message that it…
Until a few years ago, Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana was like most food banks in its reluctance to say no to any and all offers of food. So it might send a truck to a third-grade classroom 20 miles away to collect half a dozen bags of shelf-stable groceries,…
The Atlanta Community Food Bank is unleashing a monster that’s infiltrating billboards, TVs and radios. The shape-shifting monster can’t be seen, but is “quiet and sneaky and ugly and mean.” Its first name is Hun, its last name is Grr. Yes, the Hunger Monster is invading Atlanta, via a multi-media…
Taking cues from both Trader Joe’s and the food justice movement, Northwest Harvest of Seattle is opening a new food distribution center on June 24 that aims to offer a respectful, welcoming and even fun grocery shopping experience. The name of the outlet — SODO Community Market (standing for Seattle’s…
In Catherine D’Amato’s vision of the future, doctors will ask patients whether they have enough food in their household just as routinely as they inquire about smoking or alcohol consumption. Hunger will increasingly be viewed as a matter of public health, and public and private entities will work together to…
Everybody understands the appeal of a sliced apple over a whole one. For Foodlink of Rochester, NY, that appeal has translated into a way to get kids to eat healthier food, a boost for the local economy, and an annual revenue stream for the food bank of more than $200,000.…