For some, innovation means thinking outside the box. For South Carolina’s Lowcountry Food Bank, innovation has meant putting the box outside. Lowcountry installed an outdoor refrigerated shipping container (known as a “Conex,” short for Container Express) at each of three partner agency locations. The 10×20-foot outdoor units, which were installed…
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WhyHunger has long advocated that food is not the answer to hunger. Now it has affirmation that the general population is starting to get it. Its recent survey of 1,060 U.S. adults across all income levels found that people are acknowledging ways of solving hunger that have nothing to do…
When it comes to countering stigma, it’s the little things that matter. Food banks and pantries are striving to convey greater respect to clients as a way to combat the stigma that either prevents people from getting food in the first place or makes them feel bad while they do.…
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine has joined three other food banks around the country that are making their websites more inclusive via a toolbar that eliminates barriers to content. The Recite Me toolbar expands accessibility to anyone coming to a website by adding features that compensate for all kinds…
Neil Hetherington and his team at Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto have long vocalized that government policies impact how often people visit food banks. Now they have data to back up that assertion. The food bank supplied monthly usage data from January 2014 through March 2020 to researchers at…
The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona (CFB) is one of the oldest and most respected food banks in America. It is a widely recognized leader not simply in providing hunger relief but in attacking the root causes of hunger and poverty through community development, education, and advocacy. In Sowing…
Midwest Food Bank is responding to the war in Ukraine by working with a global charitable food distributor to ship nutritious shelf-stable meals to the war-torn region. The Normal, Ill.-based food bank is sending nearly a quarter of a million meals to the area through a partnership with Convoy of…
Food banks in California and New York are preparing for a potential uptick in donations as grocers, restaurants and other food producers comply with new state laws that require them to donate surplus edible food, rather than send it to landfills. These laws, which went into effect January 1, are…
The charitable food system may be a risky incubator for diabetes intervention, but hunger relief organizations are experimenting anyway. And they are seeing encouraging results. Despite challenges, hunger-relief organizations are continuing to find novel and creative ways to address diabetes, a diet-related disease that afflicts about 10% of the U.S.…