Advancing Best Practices in Hunger Relief When Food Share of Ventura County in California started up a drive-through distribution program during Covid, it expected to run it for 60 days. Today, the ...

A Feeding America report found that food banks working with healthcare entities positively impacted health outcomes in their ...

Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is celebrating ten years of lifting the voices of neighbor advocates who understand food ...

Food banks across the country are increasingly adopting solar panels, and finding creative ways to finance their projects.

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, ...

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 ...

A framework for hunger relief pioneered in Canada is slowly making its way into the United States. Gather, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based nonprofit founded in 1816 to support the families of fishermen, has ...

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 ...

It’s fair to say that food banks loved the fresh produce they received from the Farmers to Families Food Box program, but they did not like the way it was distributed. As that program comes to a close ...

Hunger relief advocates are starting to move beyond their dismay that the USDA will no longer be publishing its annual survey tracking food insecurity, and are starting to consider the various tools ...

In 2022, when a California law went into effect requiring restaurants and other food producers to donate their surplus edible food rather than send it to landfills, no one knew what sort of impact the ...

Food banks are not the only types of hunger relief agencies to pair free food alongside other social services (see article here). Some food pantries are also adding non-food social services like ...