As a former chef and restaurant owner, Greg Silverman knows a thing or two about how to get the best food at the best price. That knowledge helped him reduce by nearly 20% the cost of purchasing food for the mega-pantry he runs and three other pantries, all in New…
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New leaders naturally bring perspectives shaped by their backgrounds and experiences. In the case of Luis Guardia, the new President of Food Research and Action Center, those perspectives are global. Guardia most recently served as a high-level executive at Global Impact, a DC-based non-profit that provides fundraising and other services…
Foodlink’s Curbside Market looks like a typical mobile pantry, but it’s actually so much more. Besides improving access to fruits and vegetables in low-income neighborhoods, Curbside Market is prepping to become the nation’s first mobile provider of WIC staples. Plus, it’s advancing a new model for fruit and vegetable prescriptions,…
Four days after Super Bowl Sunday, Ellen Bowen, the driving force behind the event’s food rescue efforts, was tired but energized. Over the previous three days, she had directed a team of volunteers to collect about 35,000 pounds of food from the Hard Rock stadium in Miami. Leading up to…
In an odd coincidence, there are about as many people in America who garden (42 million) as are food-insecure (37.2 million). That works out well for AmpleHarvest.org, a website that seeks to match the abundance of produce grown by home gardeners with local food pantries that could use it. So…
With a small financial commitment and the help of about a dozen volunteers, a food pantry in Oregon is finding it’s not so hard to make a big difference in the lives of the homebound in its community. A program to deliver food once a month to elderly and disabled…
Following a three-year pilot, the Kelly Center for Hunger Relief in El Paso, Texas, is moving full steam ahead on a program to help clients decrease their reliance on charitable food and move toward greater self-sufficiency. With many moving parts, the program represents a large commitment of resources and time…
By the end of this month, Buffalo-based FeedMore WNY will be delivering freshly prepared meals to an additional 500 clients in one of the four counties it serves, up from about 50 clients before. That’s just one of the positive results to come out of a pioneering partnership that brings…
The standard answer to the question of how many food banks there are is 200, but actually there are many more. Food Bank News counts at least 371. [For our latest information on the full scope of the food banking sector, please see our 2021 Directory of the Top 300…