A number of small-scale farms have taken root at food banks and pantries across the country. Paradoxically, those who work on them will be the first to tell you that growing food for its own sake is not necessarily a top priority. “Obviously, in serving 200 people a day, the…
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Among the insights revealed by a new tool that shows how racism affects food insecurity is that Black Americans in Midwest metropolitan areas are more likely than those in the South to suffer from food insecurity. Feeding America collaborated with Tableau to publish “Identifying Racism in the Drivers of Food…
In an outgrowth of the pandemic, food banks from New Hampshire to Texas to California are starting to permanently drop fees typically imposed on pantries. When Covid first hit, food banks began temporarily lifting the shared maintenance fees pantries pay to food banks to help defray the costs of transporting,…
In many communities around the country, equitable access to food often has less to do with opening a food pantry and more with starting a garden. As the pandemic steers the national conversation around food insecurity to include the importance of nutrition and the impact of race on hunger, more…
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…
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…