Houston Food Bank is intent on getting out the vote. In what appears to be a first, the nation’s third-largest food bank is building a network of “civic hubs,” aimed at educating people about the power they have to direct government activities via their right to vote. The initiative advances…
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Our CEO Roundtable this year took place literally hours after the government shutdown that suspended SNAP payments to millions of Americans had ended. But relief was not one of the emotions expressed by the 12 food bank leaders on the call. Every November, members of our Editorial Advisory Board gather…
Mountaineer Food Bank of West Virginia is cracking the code on how to serve food-insecure children – one of the most difficult populations for food banks to reach. Its Extra Mile home delivery program works in deep partnership with area school districts to get boxes of food right onto the…
A hurricane wrapped in a pandemic is a fair way to describe the daunting challenge facing food banks as they confront the unfolding disaster of unfunded SNAP benefits. As with hurricanes and Covid, the SNAP disaster loomed in the distance before it became reality, with the possibility that it could…
As federal funding for food assistance becomes increasingly erratic, food banks are turning to food streams they can more readily control. High on the strategic to-do list for many food banks is to get more food from local grocers, making our recent webinar on “Food Sourcing in a Time of…
For two years in a row after the pandemic, the amount of revenue generated by the top 300 food banks remained at about $16 billion, following a pandemic-era high of nearly $19 billion. It seemed logical to assume that food bank revenue had settled into a post-pandemic lull, and would…
Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. Please note: Feeding America food banks are indicated in orange Independent food banks are shown in blue, and Feeding America affiliates are depicted in green. Please see…
Food banks are getting creative as they seek to keep home deliveries going. New distribution patterns, new sources of funding and new technologies are all part of the exploration into how to sustain home deliveries, now that the firehose of pandemic-era support for delivery has retreated. With funding uncertain and…
Tarrant Area Food Bank put a high-tech twist on home deliveries in an experiment that tested the ability of both aerial and terrestrial drones to get food to people. Working with the city of Arlington and the University of Texas in Arlington, the food bank ferried boxes of non-perishable food…