Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine has joined three other food banks around the country that are making their websites more inclusive via a toolbar that eliminates barriers to content. The Recite Me toolbar expands accessibility to anyone coming to a website by adding features that compensate for all kinds…
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Justin Gilmore speaks from experience when he notes that people in need of emergency food often have trouble finding it. During two periods of his life – while earning low wages as an AmeriCorps VISTA member and later as a graduate student – Gilmore relied on SNAP to get access…
The Greater Boston Food Bank has embarked on a three-year, $5-million plan to transform itself into a unified, digital-first organization that emphasizes top-notch service. Dubbed “Project Everest,” the initiative will seek to make the food bank’s technology operations more efficient, while creating better experiences for four key stakeholder groups: its…
Everyone has a story about what they did during the pandemic. Rich Cumming’s includes the closing of his events business, followed by his introduction of a technology platform designed to connect all the players involved in getting food to those who need it, within a local area. At the pandemic’s…
Among the insights revealed by a new tool that shows how racism affects food insecurity is that Black Americans in Midwest metropolitan areas are more likely than those in the South to suffer from food insecurity. Feeding America collaborated with Tableau to publish “Identifying Racism in the Drivers of Food…
When you read the word blockchain, a technology initially used for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, a question that might come to mind might be: “What does this have to do with my food bank?” While it’s true that blockchain was initially used for the financial sector, advocates for the technology tout…
When Jack Griffin founded FoodFinder as a high school student after the Great Recession, he couldn’t have predicted how vital his food pantry locator would become years later during the pandemic. But now, FoodFinder is one of the organizations powering Google’s new emergency food resource platform, Find Food Support. Griffin…
We have operated a small food pantry in our rural upstate New York community for the past 12 years. Like many of you, we have a volunteer staff and a small budget provided by government grants and community donations. Very close to 100% of our budget goes directly toward the…
To achieve its goal of ending food insecurity in Maine, Good Shepherd Food Bank is enlisting the help of broccoli. The food bank, Maine’s largest, is starting a produce-processing company called Harvesting Good that will offer frozen produce year round to retail and institutional customers. The goal of the company…