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,….
Food Drive Resource Hub - Food Bank News
Our Food Drive Resource Hub aims to help food banks take advantage of the massive inclination among Americans to give generously when it comes to food. The hub offers insights on how to maximize traditional food drive efforts, like Arkansas Food Bank does with its summer cereal drive. It also looks at new virtual food-drive technology that lets ...
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…
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.
News Archives - Food Bank News
Oct 22, 2024 — For food banks seeking new pathways to raise much-needed funds, Scott Hutchings has a suggestion – ask your donors to check their sock drawers. Hutchings estimates Americans are holding on to more than $25 billion in foreign currency carried home from trips to foreign countries – currency that’s worthless to them if …
How Pantries are Gaining Power - Food Bank News
Feb 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 Director Natasha Pernicka aimed higher ...
How One Pantry is Redefining Charitable Food - Food Bank News
August 9, 2023. Remote lockers are the latest way in which a Wash.-based nonprofit is shedding the usual trappings of a traditional charitable food organization. Its Fresh Lockers are part of an ongoing effort to make the experience of getting free food feel more normal and dignified. The lockers expand upon the organization’s free grocery ...
Data Archives - Food Bank News
Jan 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….
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 ...
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 …
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