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,….
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.
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…
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 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 ...
The Top 100 Food Banks by Revenue - Food Bank News
Oct 13, 2020 · The Top 100 Food Banks by Revenue. October 13, 2020. Welcome to the Food Bank News ranking of largest 100 food banks. [For our latest information on the scope of the food banking sector, please see our 2021 Directory of the Top 300 Food Banks.] While there are many ways for a food bank to be “tops,” our ranking is by revenue.
Covid Creates New Normal of High-Performance Food Banking
May 11, 2021. Food banking may never be the same again. After more than a year of being in crisis mode, food banks are settling into a new normal — meeting still-elevated need, but doing it more effectively than ever before thanks to 14 months of intense, pandemic-pressurized learning. Among the Covid-inspired innovations likely to stick ...
About Us - Food Bank News
About Us. Chris Costanzo spent decades as a magazine and newspaper editor, reporter and freelance writer, and more recently began volunteering at her local food pantry and hunger-relief agency. All of these interests came together in the launch of Food Bank News in 2019. Chris lives in New Jersey with her family, and is a graduate of Cornell ...
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 …
A New Model of Food Banking is Emerging - Food Bank News
March 21, 2023. For a small but growing number of food banks, distributing food is no longer enough. These food banks, including Feeding Tampa Bay and Greater Cleveland Food Bank, are re-orienting their operations to support a range of services that go beyond providing basic hunger relief. The wider scope is evident in the partnerships they are ...
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