Vermont Foodbank is getting more strategic in how it grants funds to partner agencies. During the Covid years, it was like many food banks in channeling money to pantries for a broad range of capacity-building projects to help meet increased demand. Now it is getting more focused in its competitive…
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Julie Yurko would like to warn you in advance. She is going to swear. She is going to swear because she really means it and she wants you to feel it. Here goes: Yurko is building a “kick-ass charitable food system.” A lot goes into that goal, starting with the…
Like many hunger relief organizations, God’s Love We Deliver recently put language at the top of its website to help individuals navigate the new SNAP restrictions. It also highlighted a less-common avenue of help – food assistance through Medicaid. Individuals can now go to a page on GLWD’s site where…
Houston Food Bank is intent on getting out the vote. In what appears to be a first, the nation’s third-largest food bank is building a network of “civic hubs,” aimed at educating people about the power they have to direct government activities via their right to vote. The initiative advances…
Students who succeeded in securing a total of $1 million in the Michigan state budget to address college food insecurity achieved their goal in part by placing their fellow students’ stories at the center of their campaign. In 2024, Michigan State University’s Spartan Food Security Council secured a $500,000 line…
Our CEO Roundtable this year took place literally hours after the government shutdown that suspended SNAP payments to millions of Americans had ended. But relief was not one of the emotions expressed by the 12 food bank leaders on the call. Every November, members of our Editorial Advisory Board gather…
Mountaineer Food Bank of West Virginia is cracking the code on how to serve food-insecure children – one of the most difficult populations for food banks to reach. Its Extra Mile home delivery program works in deep partnership with area school districts to get boxes of food right onto the…
A Food is Medicine program at Albany, NY-based Regional Food Bank is succeeding in helping diabetes patients measurably improve their health. The food bank’s 12-week Food Farmacy program provides patient households with weekly boxes of healthy food, along with weekly virtual nutrition counseling sessions. Results show patients significantly improving their…
A visit to San Diego’s Comic Con museum has given rise to a social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego that uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting hunger. Feeding San Diego’s comic book and classroom curriculum, Hunger Action Heroes Unite!, is designed to educate…