In 2019, when Food Bank News first reported on Feeding America’s MealConnect, the app was being used by 22 food banks and had helped rescue 1.5 billion pounds of food over five years. Now, virtually all of Feeding America’s 200 food banks are using the app, and it helped rescue…
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Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana has joined the growing number of food banks that are lifting pay, ensuring everyone in the organization is earning a living wage. Gleaners announced in May that it has been certified as providing a minimum starting wage of at least $18 an hour, the designated…
When Eloise’s Cooking Pot started a program to purchase produce from local BIPOC farmers and producers, it didn’t take long to identify a slew of challenges in those working relationships. While the farms produced food that was unparalleled in quality and rich in cultural relevance, they often struggled with practices…
The USDA is hoping food banks will help it advance new methods of distributing summer meals to kids. A new ruling, made permanent when President Biden signed the huge omnibus spending bill at the end of 2022, lets food banks and pantries be federally reimbursed for summer meals distributed in…
Letting food pantry clients choose their own food is widely accepted as a dignified way to distribute charitable food. But for pantries that have always packed up bags, moving to that “client choice” model can be an intimidating prospect. The dilemma is aptly summed up in a survey from December…
When Second Harvest Heartland of Minn. sponsored a study to better understand SNAP usage among Latinos, it was not much of a surprise to discover that the community had numerous misconceptions about the program. A few specific misperceptions did surprise though, such as the belief that SNAP applicants’ children would…
A critical tech partnership between Golden and Feeding San Diego has transformed the charitable giant’s ability to allocate resources toward reducing hunger in San Diego County, both with direct services and through a network of 160 partner organizations. Integrating technology can be a timesaver for a charity – but only…
Increasing access to food is a goal of many food banks these days, but few have done so as aggressively as Food Bank Singapore. At its start ten years ago, Food Bank Singapore followed the playbook of establishing its own brick-and-mortar food pantry, as many food banks in the U.S.…
The Capital Area Food Bank is one of only six food banks in the Feeding America network to serve three states, giving it a front-row seat into the multitude of ways the federal TEFAP program is administered across state lines. The 40-year-old program, which distributes commodities grown on U.S. farms…