With uncertainty riding high these days, many food banks are focused on the basic task of pushing out more food through their pantry networks. At the same time, some are also seeing the value of building up their pantry networks in search of longer-term solutions to food insecurity. Capacity building…
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Community Farmacy, a joint health initiative between Fort Wayne, IN-based Community Harvest Food Bank and a local healthcare facility, is making an impact on public health without prescribing pills. In just 12 weeks, participants in this year’s Community Farmacy program recorded notable improvements in their health, with some cutting their…
Our annual scan of the website advocacy efforts of the top 100 food banks (by revenue) uncovered a noticeable trend toward food banks seeking to engage visitors in activities related to voting. Their efforts ran the gamut, from passing along basic information on how the government works, to nudging people…
Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto scored such a big win for the disabled community recently, that now it’s doubling down on its efforts. In July, monthly checks for $200 began showing up in the mailboxes of Canadians with disabilities, thanks largely to the efforts of the food bank, which…
Plentiful saves time and builds trust. As food banks navigate sustained high demand, rising operational costs, and shifting community needs, many are turning to digital tools that help them run smoother operations without sacrificing care or community connection. Enter Plentiful: a free, purpose-built platform that has become a backbone for…
For all the talk about how important food is to health, it can be surprisingly difficult to get healthcare providers to refer patients to sources of healthy food. Island Harvest Food Bank has found a way around that issue by embedding its own dieticians in area hospitals and clinics. The…
Food drives sometimes get maligned for being more trouble than they’re worth, but that’s not the case with a grassroots effort to engage the legal community in raising food and funds. Known as Food from the Bar, the national grassroots campaign taps the energy and talent of local law firms,…
When Daily Bread Food Pantry in Danbury, Conn., relocated earlier this year to a new space ten times its original size, President Peter Kent suddenly had a huge need to get the pantry’s 370 volunteers up to speed on a host of new protocols. In addition to expanding its days…
Under the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” new funding for SNAP-Ed will be officially snuffed out by Sept. 30, causing food banks with related programs to rethink how they talk to clients about nutrition. As recently as 2022, the USDA had positioned the 33-year-old SNAP-Ed program as a key mechanism…