San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is proving that people with lived experience of hunger have a multitude of expertise to lend to food banks. Like a growing number of food banks, it already taps its participants to tell their personal stories to legislators to advocate for policy change. Soon it will…
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This month, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot will transition out of her role as CEO of Feeding America, seven and a half years after taking the helm. She has had a tremendous impact on the network, perhaps most notably by giving people with lived experience of hunger greater say in how the food…
GUEST POST BY STACEY CRNICH OF GOODROOTS NORTHWEST – When GoodRoots Northwest, formerly the Bonney Lake Food Bank, quietly closed the doors of its client-choice pantry, it wasn’t a sign of failure. It was a declaration of strategy and a replicable model for success. Our Pierce County, Wash.-based organization made…
As new work requirements for SNAP lurch into effect across the country, food banks and pantries are doing what they can to ease the blow. The timing of the new rules varies by state, but the upshot is that millions more Americans who previously qualified for SNAP will have to…
A framework for hunger relief pioneered in Canada is slowly making its way into the United States. Gather, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based nonprofit founded in 1816 to support the families of fishermen, has become only the second organization in the U.S. to adopt Canada’s Community Food Center model, which uses a…
Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma was known years ago for having the first production kitchen in the Feeding America network. “We had the first, but we were way behind in what we were doing with it,” noted Jeff Marlow, Chief Executive Officer. That’s no longer the case, with a recent…
Vinnie Oakes used to order produce by the case. Now he buys it by the truckload. That is just one of the differences Oakes encountered when he moved from a long career in restaurant and casino hospitality to Reno-based Food Bank of Northern Nevada, where he has served as Director…
ICE in Minnesota has not been good for immigrants, nor for efficient food distribution. The incursion of 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into the state beginning in December 2025 has resulted in the arrest of 4,000 people, according to the administration. It has also forced new methods of food…
An effort started by the Tarrant Area Food Bank to increase the amount of produce it distributes has resulted in an unusual three-way partnership, with the potential to benefit other food banks. The Fort Worth, Tex.-based food bank is making it possible for food banks in its region to go…