Advancing Best Practices in Hunger Relief It took several months to get going, but Feeding Westchester is now humming along with an initiative that uses Medicaid dollars to deliver nutritious food to ...

A Community Action Plan is designed to help community organizations create 'Food is Medicine' plans to compete against for-profit companies.

In her book, Hunger Inc., Kayleigh Garthwaite argues for an approach to hunger relief that combines the rights and community solidarity.

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, ...

ICE in Minnesota has not been good for immigrants, nor for efficient food distribution. The incursion of 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into the state beginning in December 2025 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 ...

Three years ago, Ashley Tyrner (pictured above) persuaded a single health plan provider to allow her company, FarmboxRx, to provide the plan’s members with boxes of produce as a way to proactively ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina three years ago, the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina realized it wasn’t as prepared to serve the Latino community as it should have been. “We ...