Placer Food Bank, serving three counties in Northern California, expects its new virtual food drive platform will bring in at least triple the amount of food. Placer is going all in on virtual food donations, announcing earlier this month that it’s exclusively using an online platform to raise funds for…
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In keeping with food banks across the country that are experimenting with new ways of reaching out to clients, Redwood Empire Food Bank is expanding offerings at its one-of-a-kind grocery store for low-income people. Its Food Connections Market, located next to Redwood Empire’s warehouse, is not a food pantry, a…
Move For Hunger — a national nonprofit that started out by helping people donate their food when they move — is expanding into transporting truckloads of perishable food on behalf of food banks. Move For Hunger’s connections with the trucking industry run deep, extending to a 100-year-old New Jersey family…
Food Bank News has determined that 21 of the 100 largest food banks in the country are utilizing best practices in advocacy. These 21 food banks are active in all four of the areas Food Bank News identified as vital to having an effective advocacy program, placing them on the…
City Harvest began its partnership with #GiveHealthy in early 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Since then, its utilization of the #GiveHealthy Digital Food Drive Platform produced impressive results — all at no cost. Some key highlights: 150,000+ pounds of healthy food donations More than 50 new support organizations More…
A foundation based in Paraguay is seeking to work with food banks across the globe to help it spread its groundbreaking method of moving families out of poverty. The Poverty Stoplight seeks to empower individual families to better understand the exact nature of their poverty and the specific steps they…
The newly named head of the USDA, Tom Vilsack, has introduced a new way of framing the issue of hunger relief in America: it’s about nutrition security, not just food security. Inadequate nutrition is leading to high rates of chronic disease including obesity, presenting nothing less than a potential national…
In response to a nearly 60% increase in the number of adults over 60 reporting food insecurity since the start of the pandemic (see chart), food banks are intensifying their efforts to reach seniors and enroll them in SNAP. With fewer opportunities to meet seniors in person, these food banks…
As the head of Vermont’s only food bank, John Sayles was used to getting the occasional call from a big donor. But when he learned that the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott wanted to hand over $9 million, he was stunned. The unprecedented gift was more than the Vermont Foodbank’s entire…