Better together. It’s a phrase the three leaders of the Orange County Hunger Alliance like to use. Not just a description, it’s their operating principle. The Alliance unites Orange County, California’s three leading hunger relief organizations — Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County; Orange County Food Bank, and Abound…
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Just about every week, the Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School fields questions from organizations that are concerned about their liability related to donated food. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, passed in 1996, was designed to encourage…
More food banks are seeking to expand their missions beyond food distribution to include community engagement – and they have the infrastructure to prove it. The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and Nourishing Hope of Chicago are among the organizations that have recently unveiled space that positions them to more…
After months of making do with far fewer volunteer resources during the pandemic, hunger relief organizations are getting creative as they work to reinvigorate their volunteer ranks. Some are finding value in relying on clients as volunteers. Others are finding ways to engage highly skilled workers for special projects. And…
During the pandemic, the federal Farmers to Families Food Box program loomed large for hunger relief organizations as instrumental in getting food to people who needed it. In the overall scheme of things, however, the program was pretty small potatoes. The USDA last month released its annual Food and Nutrition…
Located in El Paso, TX, El Pasoans Fighting Hunger is the city’s only food bank supporting over 132 partner agencies and 200,000 food-insecure people. Prior to implementing Link2Feed, EPFH was using a paper-based process to fulfill their 3,188 CSFP caseload across a network of partner agencies. The COVID-19 pandemic caused…
Struggle often breeds innovation, a concept that Jeremy Cooley, CEO of Tangelo, an online e-commerce platform, understands. Cooley made it his mission to highlight the importance of nutritious food after 2017, when his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given six months to live. After proper nutrition helped extend…
Food banks agree that demand for food assistance has remained unusually high, even as the pandemic has eased. Now Feeding America has put a number on that demand. In a report released last week, it found that an estimated 53 million people received charitable food assistance in 2021. That’s down…
Food banks and pantries can look forward to increased opportunities to create more resilient, food-secure communities, thanks to comprehensive funding recently announced by the USDA that promises to overhaul the framework of the American food system. Announced June 1, USDA’s Food System Transformation framework fills in the details of a…