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…
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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…
Like any hunger relief organization, Crossroads Community Services in Dallas distributes lots of food. Unlike most, it also acts as an incubator for research-based innovation. Over time, its research has pushed it to change its practices, including toward a food distribution model that encourages frequent client visits as a means…
While cryptocurrency has had a volatile year, it continues to emerge as a valid fundraising tool for food banks able to accept it. “It wasn’t something that we necessarily were looking to get into,” said David Jones, Vice President of Fundraising Operations at Food Bank for New York City. “Our…
Produce-prescription programs may be innovative, but traditionally have operated on a small scale. A Boston-based company wants to change that with a card-based solution that could get millions more people using the prescriptions. The solution from About Fresh taps into existing card processing systems, making it much easier for end-users,…