We have operated a small food pantry in our rural upstate New York community for the past 12 years. Like many of you, we have a volunteer staff and a small budget provided by government grants and community donations. Very close to 100% of our budget goes directly toward the…
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Link2Feed, a leading provider of software to food banks and food pantries, is poised to help hunger relief orgs deliver on home deliveries through a partnership with DoorDash. Link2Feed customers — there are about 12,000 of them — will be able to access the same software DoorDash uses to manage…
Making good on its plan to shut down the Farmers to Families Food Box program and instead focus on existing distribution channels for charitable food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would invest $1 billion to support food banks. The aid, announced June 4, includes $500 million to purchase…
Fundraising is a big part of any nonprofit’s work. But what happens when the relentless drive to get money and please donors comes at the expense of an organization’s core values? That’s the question C. Nathan Harris posed to the Oregon Food Bank two years ago when he was interviewing…
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino is like many other food banks in starting a home delivery program during Covid-19 and making it permanent. Now, the food bank’s home delivery service looks something like Uber Eats, encompassing more than 1,000 volunteers over a vast portion of California. From March to December…
The Food Bank Council of Michigan is a unique organization composed of member regional food banks and their subsidiaries — each with unique strategies to respond to the specific needs of their community. These members provide over 3,000 local agencies with fruits, vegetables, and other grocery items in all of…
The healthcare system may be vast and complicated, but finding a way to work within it can supercharge a food bank’s ability to ease food insecurity. Second Harvest Heartland, the country’s seventh-largest food bank (by revenue) and the largest in Minnesota, has succeeded in integrating itself into the state’s healthcare…
Miles-long lines at food banks during Covid highlighted just how easily families may slip into food insecurity, despite the ongoing efforts of food banks over the past 50 years to distribute food. Even before Covid exposed the precarious nature of many families’ food budgets, hunger relief organizations were beginning to…
To achieve its goal of ending food insecurity in Maine, Good Shepherd Food Bank is enlisting the help of broccoli. The food bank, Maine’s largest, is starting a produce-processing company called Harvesting Good that will offer frozen produce year round to retail and institutional customers. The goal of the company…