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…
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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…
Who doesn’t like a good story? The ability of stories to compel attention and elicit emotion is behind the creation of StoryBank Texas, a project of Feeding Texas, comprised of 21 food banks focused on hunger-relief advocacy and support. StoryBank Texas collects first-person accounts of Texans who have lived with…
When Stephen Giuliano became Executive Director of Operation Sharing in Ontario, Canada, he determined that the best way to address hunger in his community was to shut down the food pantry. In its place is a program, now in its 15th year, in which clients use food cards loaded with…
The Greater Chicago Food Depository’s expansion into meal preparation with the addition of a massive new kitchen adds oomph to a growing frontier of service for the nation’s food banks. With its $50-million commitment to preparing meals, announced last month, the Food Depository is sending a strong message that it…
Arlington Food Assistance Center Director of Programs The mission of the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) is to provide free, nutritious, supplemental groceries to individuals and families in need who reside in Arlington County. Clients are referred to AFAC by the Arlington County Department of Human Services, local social service…
As more food banks make progress in identifying the nutritional quality of the food they distribute, they are running into the same problem that Foodshare of Conn. did: big piles of mixed, donated foods that are not easily ranked. Sometimes known as salvage, these miscellaneous items usually come from retail…