Like many food banks, One Generation Away, a ten-year-old independent food bank in Tennessee, recently partnered with DoorDash to expand its home delivery service. Then it took home delivery one step further by creating a branded program that has the potential to operate nationally. For clients, using the food bank’s…
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MEXICO CITY – Carbon credits are coming to food banking. The Mexican FoodBanking Network (BAMX) is a pioneer in this effort, becoming the first organization in the world to earn carbon credits for rescuing food. Working with Miami-based CoreZero, BAMX quantified the amount of carbon dioxide emissions saved from the…
For a small but growing number of food banks, distributing food is no longer enough. These food banks, including Feeding Tampa Bay and Greater Cleveland Food Bank, are re-orienting their operations to support a range of services that go beyond providing basic hunger relief. The wider scope is evident in…
GUEST POST BY PETER KENT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY, DANBURY, CT – Every few hours or so, a little reminder flag pops up on my phone that says simply “Order From Food Bank.” I set this up when originally gifted with the task of ordering from our…
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…
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…