A practical approach to making data-driven decisions, so food is shared more equitably across communities, while waste ...

With the demise of the USDA's household food security report, should more food banks be collecting data on food insecurity?

The standard answer to the question of how many food banks there are is 200, but actually there are many more. Food Bank News counts at least 371. [For our latest information on the full scope of the ...

Early in March, food banks found out that $500 million for LFPA, a popular federal program that gives them money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, would go away. Toward the end of the month, ...

GUEST OPINION BY BRIAN GREENE, CEO OF HOUSTON FOOD BANK – In the early days of the Feeding America network, the prevalent thought was that if we just distributed enough food, we would end hunger in ...

Like many hunger relief organizations, God’s Love We Deliver recently put language at the top of its website to help individuals navigate the new SNAP restrictions. It also highlighted a less-common ...

Food banks have long emphasized better nutrition in the food they distribute. Now, serious structural changes are making elevated nutritional quality a lasting characteristic of food banking. The most ...

After decades of relying on donated food, food banks are starting to place more emphasis on purchasing food. The trend appears to be an outgrowth of Covid, which forced food banks to purchase food by ...

Just as grocery stores are making it possible for Americans to do more of their shopping online through apps like Instacart and FreshDirect, so too are food pantries embracing digital choice. While ...

For many food pantries, language barriers are a common obstacle to serving a diverse client base. One food pantry in the Chicago area is taking advantage of two distinct technologies to help ...

CUMAC’s two-story facility in Northern New Jersey has the look and feel of a standard food bank, with a warehouse, a handful of trucks, a client-choice pantry, and even a small garden. In practice, ...

Houston Food Bank is intent on getting out the vote. In what appears to be a first, the nation’s third-largest food bank is building a network of “civic hubs,” aimed at educating people about the ...