Feeding Tampa Bay’s new $60 million facility has all the things a food bank needs to be able to meet increasing demand for food – like excess capacity in its dry warehouse, extra dock doors, and additional flooring around its cooler and freezer for possible expansion. Despite all its preparations…
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It’s hard to overstate the impact that the USDA’s new summer feeding program will have on alleviating summer food insecurity. By making it much easier to get food, the program is expected to reach 21 million kids, a massive expansion from the three million kids who utilized summer feeding in…
There was a good amount of whiz-bang technology on display at the Food is Medicine Summit in Chicago this week. Sifter took the stage early on to demonstrate its digital shopping platform. Savor Health followed to talk about AI-powered nutrition assistance. It was enough to make one wonder how nonprofit…
The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina has more experience than most food banks when it comes to Food is Medicine. For a few years now, it has been working with state health care providers to serve patients in need of healthy food. Currently, it’s delivering food and/or…
Last fall, The Farmlink Project pulled off its largest food recovery by a factor of ten when it rescued 13.5 million pounds of apples from about a dozen farms in West Virginia that otherwise would have gone to waste. The recovery, considered by many to be the largest in U.S.…
Taking a page from meal kit services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh, some hunger relief organizations are making basic versions of the kits available to clients. The kits fulfill multiple roles, offering variety and convenience to clients, as well as a novel engagement experience for volunteers. The bare-bones meal kits…
Food banks have probably noticed more healthcare organizations reaching out to them for help in addressing food insecurity. That’s because healthcare is being charged with identifying and addressing all the non-clinical reasons their patients are unhealthy, like a lack of housing or nutritious food. (Food Bank News wrote about that…
At the exhibit hall of the Food as Medicine Summit happening in Chicago next week, there will be organizations familiar to food banks, including Feeding America, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the International Fresh Produce Association. There will also be exhibitors that many food banks have likely never…
Food is Medicine offers incredible opportunities to use federal and state healthcare dollars to provide people with nutritious food. One issue is that everyone wants in on that opportunity. Food banks are well-positioned to receive government funds to do Food is Medicine. So are a growing number of private food…