A Food is Medicine program at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York is helping diabetes patients measurably improve ...

A social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting ...

As federal funding for food assistance becomes increasingly erratic, food banks are turning to food streams they can more ...

A visit to San Diego’s Comic Con museum has given rise to a social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego that uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting hunger. Feeding ...

A hurricane wrapped in a pandemic is a fair way to describe the daunting challenge facing food banks as they confront the unfolding disaster of unfunded SNAP benefits. As with hurricanes and Covid, ...

A hurricane wrapped in a pandemic is a fair way to describe the daunting challenge facing food banks as they confront 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than three years ago, Chicago-based Vivery Community had one food bank using its free Find Food mapping technology to help people find pantries. Now 82 food banks in 32 states are using the maps, ...

Given the history of food banks, it would seem that those in the U.S. would have little to learn from their global counterparts. Food banks started as an American invention of the 1960s, and did not ...