Food Bank News - Advancing Best Practices in Hunger Relief
September 23, 2024. Just over a year into leading the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, Elizabeth McCarthy is proving to be a quick study of hunger relief, while also putting her own spin on things. McCarthy became President and CEO of CFBNJ last July, following decades of working at various multi-service nonprofits,….
Food Drive Resource Hub - Food Bank News
Our Food Drive Resource Hub aims to help food banks take advantage of the massive inclination among Americans to give generously when it comes to food. The hub offers insights on how to maximize traditional food drive efforts, like Arkansas Food Bank does with its summer cereal drive. It also looks at new virtual food-drive technology that lets ...
Top 300 Food Banks By Revenue, 2023 - Food Bank News
Oct 24, 2023 · Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. Please note: Feeding America food banks are indicated in orange Independent food banks are shown in blue, and Feeding America affiliates are depicted in green. Revenue numbers come from food banks’ most recently filed Form 990s or…
Big Ambitions for Feeding America’s MealConnect Food Rescue App
June 28, 2023. In 2019, when Food Bank News first reported on Feeding America’s MealConnect, the app was being used by 22 food banks and had helped rescue 1.5 billion pounds of food over five years. Now, virtually all of Feeding America’s 200 food banks are using the app, and it helped rescue 1.2 billion pounds in 2022 alone.
USDA Farm to Food Bank Program Grows Roots
May 3, 2024 · By all accounts, a program that the USDA introduced in late 2021 to help local farmers grow nutritious food for underserved communities has worked out exceedingly well (Food Bank News first wrote about it here.). The Local Food Purchase Assistance program has resulted in nearly $700 million of funds going to farmers and ranchers nationwide, helping to get food to people who need it and ...
A Human Rights View of Food Banking - Food Bank News
Oct 10, 2023 · A Human Rights View of Food Banking. In a zoom meeting last week, three human rights groups offered their perspective on the charitable food banking system and its impact on the world’s food-insecure population. Citing a data point that is likely familiar to anyone working in hunger relief, the groups noted that food insecurity continues to ...
What the Most Recent “Map the Meal Gap” Tells Us
Feeding America last month published its twelfth annual Map the Meal Gap report, revealing the entrenched nature of food insecurity in the nation’s hardest-hit counties, as well as large disparities between racial and ethnic groups when it comes to food insecurity.. Breaking down food insecurity levels by county and then by race and ethnicity clarified two critical points, emphasized Dr ...
What the People Say - Food Bank News
Sep 21, 2024 · What the People Say. September 21, 2024. Feeding children, making SNAP easier to access, and promoting food as medicine all bubbled up as high priorities for nearly 1,500 adults with lived experience of food insecurity who responded to a Feeding America survey, released earlier this month. At least 90% or more of respondents to the national ...
CEO Roundtable: Hunger is not a Food Problem - Food Bank News
November 17, 2020. As the biggest news story of 2020, Covid-19 played a role in the conversation at Food Bank News’ CEO roundtable discussion, held online in early November. But more prominent were perennial questions about ways in which the problem of hunger should be framed and solved. There were unexpectedly positive outcomes from Covid.
Our Mission - Food Bank News
Food Bank News is the first and only publication to acknowledge the critical role that food banks and related agencies play in the wellness and livelihood of millions of people living in the United States. We understand that what started as a side project for a single volunteer has now become a permanent layer in the nation’s food supply system. We get that food banks need to …
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