Food banks are well aware that the extra SNAP benefits given out during the pandemic have now expired in every state. But they may not be aware of a tool that can help them more accurately predict the impact of the benefit’s expiration. The Food Insecurity Index, developed by Conduent…
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It’s fair to say that every food bank in the country would like to prioritize health and nutrition in its policies and procedures. Today, Partnership for a Healthier America is releasing the results of an index it developed to help food banks do just that. More than two years in…
Equity can be an abstract idea, but California’s Alameda County Community Food Bank has found a concrete way to put it into practice. The process began some two-and-a-half years ago, amid the pandemic and the start of a nationwide racial reckoning, when the food bank began examining how it could…
Amazon and DoorDash have done a lot to help food banks and pantries rev up home deliveries, but they are not the only game in town when it comes to supporting home delivery. Vivery Idea Lab Vivery Idea Lab, an incubator founded by Chicago-based Thierer Family Foundation, last month announced…
Home delivery looks to be at an inflection point. Many hunger relief organizations took home delivery from zero to sixty in recent years, fueled by pandemic demand, as well as generous aid from government and private companies like Amazon and DoorDash. Now, as some of that aid dries up, there…
At a time when many food banks were scrambling to add extra warehouse space to meet the demands of the pandemic, Food Lifeline in Seattle found itself with an unexpected gift: lots and lots of extra warehouse space. A tenant had moved out, leaving behind 80,000 square feet of space…
Despite the momentum around September’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, President Joe Biden did not mention domestic food insecurity in his State of the Union speech earlier this week. It was at least heartening that the CEO of one of the nation’s largest food banks was invited…
GUEST OPINION BY BRIAN GREENE, CEO OF HOUSTON FOOD BANK – In the early days of the Feeding America network, the prevalent thought was that if we just distributed enough food, we would end hunger in America. We were wrong. The network long ago reached the amount of distribution that…
In theory, healthcare and hunger-relief entities are excellent partners in serving food-insecure people in their communities. In reality, there are often barriers to making those partnerships click. The Federation of Virginia Food Banks and the state’s seven member food banks are working to break down those barriers with a three-year…