To protect the health of its senior volunteers during the Covid-19 crisis, Three Square Food Bank has instituted a top-to-bottom reorg of its network of about 160 pantries and agencies. In the space of about six hours on Monday, March 16, the Las Vegas-based food bank devised a plan that…
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Michael Guerra of San Antonio Food Bank was sitting in a meeting about the food bank’s coronavirus contingency plan when he thought back to a chance encounter he’d had that morning: a food-insecure client of the food bank was lamenting the inability to acquire reserve food, when it was already…
Sunshine Division, a hunger-relief agency in Portland, Ore., is getting food delivered to people who need it through what amounts to a volunteer brigade available all hours of the day and night, every day of the week. The nimble delivery squad consists of members of the Portland Police Department who…
As a former chef and restaurant owner, Greg Silverman knows a thing or two about how to get the best food at the best price. That knowledge helped him reduce by nearly 20% the cost of purchasing food for the mega-pantry he runs and three other pantries, all in New…
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,…
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,…