Food banking is a bit of an odd duck of the nonprofit world. It involves all the fundraising and programming of most nonprofits, but also encompasses a heavy-duty operational aspect – with warehouses, trucks, inventories,...

CHRIS COSTANZO Founder and Editor chris.costanzo@foodbanknews.org 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…

Jan 20, 2025 · During the pandemic, the Minn.-based hunger relief organization Open Cupboard gained two key insights that helped guide the opening of its newest free-food market. The first was that people don’t want to have to answer a lot of questions to gain access to food. The second was that a community’s ...

Dec 4, 2024 · Coming out of Covid, many food banks that benefitted from pandemic-era giving and extra government aid directed more funding toward employees, particularly to lift the pay of low-wage workers (see our story here). A few years later, outside aid is now harder to come by, but the work to ensure a more equitable wage structure and better employee benefits goes on.

Oct 23, 2024 · Our latest look at the top 300 food banks by revenue shows that 1) the very biggest food banks are getting bigger, and 2) most food banks are relatively small.. As in years past, two food banks that operate outside of the Feeding America network emerged as the largest food banks in the country, in terms of revenue.

Mar 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 …

Oct 22, 2024 · Our dashboard of the top 300 U.S. food banks is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data.

May 3, 2024 · By all accounts, a program that the USDA introduced in late 2021 to help local farmers grow nutritious food for underserved communities has worked out exceedingly well (Food Bank News first wrote about it here.). The Local Food Purchase Assistance program has resulted in nearly $700 million of funds going to farmers and ranchers nationwide, helping to get food to people who need it and ...

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 …

Sep 10, 2024 · What if you could tell your donors that your efforts in food rescue removed the same amount of greenhouse gas as emitted annually by 900 cars?