Food Bank News - Advancing Best Practices in Hunger Relief
WEBNew CEO of NJ’s Largest Food Bank Is Quick Study. 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 ...
How Pantries are Gaining Power - Food Bank News
WEBFeb 28, 2024 · Like MEND, The Food Pantries for the Capital District in upstate New York began decades ago by convening a small group of pantries. Now the group supports about 70 pantries by raising funds, purchasing and delivering food, and fostering collaboration, service coordination and education. In 2020, Executive …
Food Banks Welcome $1 Billion Investment by USDA
WEBJune 9, 2021. Making good on its plan to shut down the Farmers to Families Food Box program and instead focus on existing distribution channels for charitable food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would invest $1 billion to support food banks. The aid, announced June 4, includes $500 million to purchase nutritious, domestically ...
Big Ambitions for Feeding America’s MealConnect Food Rescue App
WEBJune 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.
What the People Say - Food Bank News
WEBSep 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 ...
USDA Farm to Food Bank Program Grows Roots
WEBMay 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 ...
How Grant-Making is Strengthening Pantry Networks
WEBOf the $2 million in total that the food bank granted in 2023, about $750,000 went toward these capacity building grants, which are designed to support items like refrigeration, shelving, vehicles, and maintenance. The food bank recently lowered the maximum amount awarded for those grants from $12,000 to $7,000 because it found pantries were ...
About Food Banks - Food Bank News
WEBJust over 50 years ago, there was no such thing as a food bank. There were soup kitchens and food pantries, operating on shoestring budgets out of church basements and community centers. They served as stopgap solutions for hungry people, and mostly only in emergencies. The modern-day food bank came about in 1967, when a volunteer in a Phoenix-area soup…
A Human Rights View of Food Banking - Food Bank News
WEBOct 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 ...
Our Mission - Food Bank News
WEBFood 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 operate at a ...
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