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

A hurricane with a heavy dose of Covid is a fair way to describe the daunting challenge facing food banks as they confront ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For people who live in neighborhoods where supermarkets are scarce, finding food is often more problematic than having money for food. A growing number of food banks are addressing this issue by ...

There’s no doubt that the new ability in some states to tap Medicaid money as reimbursement for nutrition services is attracting attention from the hunger-relief community. But there’s another ...

Although Good Shepherd Food Bank has long served diverse communities across Maine, it wasn’t until Covid-19 hit that the organization realized how much variety there was in the food its clients wanted ...

Tarrant Area Food Bank put a high-tech twist on home deliveries in an experiment that tested the ability of both aerial and terrestrial drones to get food to people. Working with the city of Arlington ...