Neil Hetherington and his team at Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto have long vocalized that government policies impact how often people visit food banks. Now they have data to back up that assertion. The food bank supplied monthly usage data from January 2014 through March 2020 to researchers at…
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The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona (CFB) is one of the oldest and most respected food banks in America. It is a widely recognized leader not simply in providing hunger relief but in attacking the root causes of hunger and poverty through community development, education, and advocacy. In Sowing…
Midwest Food Bank is responding to the war in Ukraine by working with a global charitable food distributor to ship nutritious shelf-stable meals to the war-torn region. The Normal, Ill.-based food bank is sending nearly a quarter of a million meals to the area through a partnership with Convoy of…
Food banks in California and New York are preparing for a potential uptick in donations as grocers, restaurants and other food producers comply with new state laws that require them to donate surplus edible food, rather than send it to landfills. These laws, which went into effect January 1, are…
The charitable food system may be a risky incubator for diabetes intervention, but hunger relief organizations are experimenting anyway. And they are seeing encouraging results. Despite challenges, hunger-relief organizations are continuing to find novel and creative ways to address diabetes, a diet-related disease that afflicts about 10% of the U.S.…
Food Bank News has found that 33 of the 101 largest food banks in the country are excelling in using their websites in four areas important to advocacy — having SNAP-related education and outreach on the site; having an advocacy page; having legislative policies on the site, and having calls…
For years, the food banking sector has talked about the need to address the root causes of hunger. Now there is a campaign and toolkit to help ignite those plans into action. The Next Shift campaign, created by the organizations and individuals of Closing the Hunger Gap, puts forth a…
Justin Gilmore speaks from experience when he notes that people in need of emergency food often have trouble finding it. During two periods of his life – while earning low wages as an AmeriCorps VISTA member and later as a graduate student – Gilmore relied on SNAP to get access…
The leaders of European food banks convened a meeting on Monday to plot out ways to support Ukraine’s food banking system as war continues to unfold throughout the country, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from their homes. In addition to sending support for Ukraine’s main food bank, located…