NOVEMBER 17, 2020 — Most years, I read the news about the Nobel Peace Prize as many Americans might: with a vague sense of pride by association if the winners are from the U.S. But recently, I was overcome with excitement at the announcement that the World Food Programme (WFP)…
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While Halloween has come and gone, and the specters of electoral politics wane, at least one monster remains. Or, that’s what Lulu and the Hunger Monster, a recently published children’s book by Foodbank of Santa Barbara County CEO Erik Talkin, would have you believe. Lulu and the Hunger Monster is…
A food bank in Missouri has shown in a pilot that it can improve health outcomes by giving people nutritious food. Now it wants to conduct a more formal test that would prove it to insurers. Operation Food Search of St. Louis is about to embark on a three-year randomized,…
Feeding South Florida didn’t need a strategic analysis to know it lacked the storage space to handle the enormous volume of food coming into its warehouse this spring to meet demand generated by the pandemic. “You could see that an incoming pallet was blocking an aisle, but there was nowhere…
As a relatively new organization — only ten years old — Feeding Children Everywhere has the benefit of not being tied to legacy notions of how things are done. So its embrace of a virtual food bank model in response to Covid-19 has been seamless. Under its virtual model, the…
Welcome to the Food Bank News ranking of largest 100 food banks. [For our latest information on the scope of the food banking sector, please see our 2021 Directory of the Top 300 Food Banks.] While there are many ways for a food bank to be “tops,” our ranking is…
Food banks serving far-flung rural populations may soon have a friend in John Kane. The Houston-based philanthropist and former materials engineer is hatching a visionary plan that would fund, build and open about 100 warehouses across the country, all aimed at providing logistics help for organizations that distribute food in…
There may be no better case study demonstrating the power of virtual food drives than what happened at Long Island Cares. When Covid-19 first hit, the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based food bank cancelled all of its spring food drives and quickly pivoted to its existing partnership with YouGiveGoods, a N.J.-based provider of…
Food Bank News’ ranking of the largest ten food banks holds some surprises, especially at the very top. [For our latest information on the full scope of the food banking sector, please see our 2021 Directory of the Top 300 Food Banks.] Ranked by revenue, the two biggest food banks…