Share Food Program’s acquisition of Philly Food Rescue last month highlights an increasing trend of food banks turning to food rescue as a way of diversifying their sourcing. Share Food Program, an independent food bank based in Philadelphia, will incorporate the operations and technology of Philly Food Rescue into its…
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Mobilize’s CTO, Jerry Ramey, has firsthand experience with the nutritional struggles of poverty stricken rural communities. “I grew up in a mobile home, what we call a trailer, in Mouthcard, KY. This is undoubtedly a town you’ve never heard of and you couldn’t find on a map if you tried…
After decades of relying on donated food, food banks are starting to place more emphasis on purchasing food. The trend appears to be an outgrowth of Covid, which forced food banks to purchase food by the truckload as constricted supply chains put the squeeze on donated food. The purchases, along…
When you read the word blockchain, a technology initially used for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, a question that might come to mind might be: “What does this have to do with my food bank?” While it’s true that blockchain was initially used for the financial sector, advocates for the technology tout…
When Jack Griffin founded FoodFinder as a high school student after the Great Recession, he couldn’t have predicted how vital his food pantry locator would become years later during the pandemic. But now, FoodFinder is one of the organizations powering Google’s new emergency food resource platform, Find Food Support. Griffin…
The Greater Chicago Food Depository is redefining itself. The nation’s 12th-largest food bank is in the beginning stages of a multi-year, multi-tiered strategy aimed at building connections with community groups that have deep roots in the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods. The goal is to transfer power and resources to grassroots…
Earlier this year, Food Outreach, a St. Louis-based provider of medically tailored food and meals, reached out to a local bakery with the idea of creating a special artisan bread loaf that would enhance the health of its immune-compromised clients. Weeks of building and perfecting a recipe resulted in a…
The simplest form of client choice in food banking is to let clients pick the food they’d like to take home, as if in a grocery store. At Northern Illinois Food Bank, client choice encompasses much more. The food bank, which is the third largest in Illinois with $129 million…
A new report underscores the power of getting people to donate at the cash register. The report found that grocery retailer Albertsons Companies raised a whopping $67.9 million in one month by asking shoppers at all of its stores across 34 states to donate money while checking out. The money…