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…
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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…
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…
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…