A color-coded map is helping food pantries across the nation get the food aid they need when they need it. Souper Bowl of Caring launched the Tackle Hunger Map at the beginning of the pandemic as a way to show the “real-time need” of food charities across the United States.…
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These days, it is hard to find a food bank that is not making adjustments to pay or thinking about it, especially for lower-wage workers. Food banks across the country and in Canada report undertaking compensation studies and/or instituting wage increases to ensure employees are getting fair pay and can…
Legislation pending in California would supercharge the way healthy incentive programs (often known as Double Up Food Bucks) work, potentially having an outsized impact on the ability of SNAP recipients in the state to afford and eat more nutritious food. At the heart of the program is technology that automatically…
I have a crinkled $20 bill in my pocket, and I’m standing in the first aisle of the Save-A-Lot in Kent, Ohio, trying to make the paper a little bit thicker so it can last for the next 10 days. It’s not the first time I’ve been here, but I…
Food banks have long emphasized better nutrition in the food they distribute. Now, serious structural changes are making elevated nutritional quality a lasting characteristic of food banking. The most important of these may be the development of nutrition guidelines specifically for use in the charitable food system. Introduced two years…
For some, innovation means thinking outside the box. For South Carolina’s Lowcountry Food Bank, innovation has meant putting the box outside. Lowcountry installed an outdoor refrigerated shipping container (known as a “Conex,” short for Container Express) at each of three partner agency locations. The 10×20-foot outdoor units, which were installed…
WhyHunger has long advocated that food is not the answer to hunger. Now it has affirmation that the general population is starting to get it. Its recent survey of 1,060 U.S. adults across all income levels found that people are acknowledging ways of solving hunger that have nothing to do…
When it comes to countering stigma, it’s the little things that matter. Food banks and pantries are striving to convey greater respect to clients as a way to combat the stigma that either prevents people from getting food in the first place or makes them feel bad while they do.…
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine has joined three other food banks around the country that are making their websites more inclusive via a toolbar that eliminates barriers to content. The Recite Me toolbar expands accessibility to anyone coming to a website by adding features that compensate for all kinds…