Food Bank News - Advancing Best Practices in Hunger Relief
WEBCalif. Food Bank Invests $4M+ in Food Justice. August 28, 2024. It’s one thing for a food bank to say it’s going to get involved in the food justice movement. It’s another to actually do it. Alameda County Community Food Bank made a definitive move into food justice when it agreed to invest between $2 million and $2.5 million per year….
What the People Say - Food Bank News
WEB19 hours ago · 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 ...
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 ...
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 …
How Food Banks are Advancing the Right to Food Movement
WEBJan 27, 2021 · The right-to-food movement also encompasses food production and protecting the rights of food producers, Cohen noted. That big-picture approach allows for political alliances that might evade narrower, single-issue advocacy efforts. Indeed, the Maine bill came out of farmer advocacy, and Lohnes sees “potential to …
Food Banks Tackle Inequity in Food Access - Food Bank News
WEBApr 14, 2021 · In addition to its fund, Good Shepherd, the largest food bank in Maine with 2019 revenues of $58 million, according to Food Bank News’ listing of the largest 100 food banks, will start buying foods such as cassava leaves, salted fish, palm oil and a wider variety of rice now that it better understands what the community eats.
Food Banks Strategize Against Rising Inflation, Declining Aid
WEBSeptember 14, 2022. With rising inflation, supply chain issues, and declining federal aid putting intense pressure on hunger relief organizations, a growing number of them are strategizing about ways to keep the food flowing amidst heightened demand. From large food banks to small pantries, hunger relief experts are reporting a “perfect storm ...
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 ...
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…
Data Archives - Food Bank News
WEBJan 11, 2023 · The Ten Largest U.S. Food Banks (Take Two) February 23, 2021. A food bank in Florida is the largest in the state and among the ten largest in the U.S., but was mistakenly omitted from the Food Bank News ranking of the top ten food banks by revenue, published in September. [For our latest information on the scope of the food….
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