Early on in the pandemic, NYC-based Met Council, the nation’s largest kosher food pantry network, was invited to a meeting at the mayor’s office where government officials ran down a list of more than 800 food pantries to make sure each had access to the city’s emergency food system. When…
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People who are new to the charitable food system often experience a fundamental problem when they try to access it – they don’t know where to go for help. A neighborhood might be populated with pantries, but these often operate out of basements or side doors, with little to no…
In an effort timed to coincide with the White House’s convening on hunger, nutrition and health, the Department of Health and Human Services recently unveiled “groundbreaking” approvals that pave the way for state health care plans to use Medicaid funding to pay for nutritious food that would improve peoples’ health.…
When it comes to targeting hunger, Maine’s Good Shepherd Food Bank has found a hyper-local approach can be hyper-effective. The food bank recently announced a $100,000 investment to close the meal gap in one of the state’s larger counties by putting those who live in the county in charge of…
Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. By introducing the dashboard, we hope to advance the collective knowledge and understanding of the players working to solve food insecurity in America. For our analysis of…
Wheel a cart around any grocery store in a large metropolitan area these days, and you’ll run into workers who are shopping on behalf of people who’ve placed orders from home. These digital sales make up just 11.2% of the U.S. grocery market, but rapid adoption is expected to nearly…
On a Thursday evening in early October, the multi-purpose room at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., was transformed from a large, empty room into a low-tech factory with dozens of production lines. Over the next four days, more than 3,000 volunteers working in small teams over two-hour shifts scooped,…
Before the pandemic, Laguna Food Pantry in Calif., distributed food through a “charming” grocery-store-style pantry where clients could pick and choose the food they wanted, said Executive Director Anne Belyea. Then the pandemic hit, and it adopted the approach of many pantries in switching to a drive-through distribution with pre-packaged…
It was hard not to be inspired when no less of an influencer than President Joe Biden said, “I really do know we can do this – end hunger in this country by the year 2030.” The President’s ambition met the energy of the crowd at the White House’s much-anticipated…