With the demise of the USDA's household food security report, should more food banks be collecting data on food insecurity?

Vermont Foodbank is getting more strategic in how it makes grants to partner agencies, by directing funds toward specific ...

Students who succeeded in securing a total of $1 million in the Michigan state budget to address college food insecurity achieved their goal in part by placing their fellow students’ stories at the ...

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 ...

After decades of relying on donated food, food banks are starting to place more emphasis on purchasing food. The trend appears to be an outgrowth of Covid, which forced food banks to purchase food by ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. By introducing the dashboard, we hope to ...

“Oftentimes, as food banks, we find ourselves trying to serve everyone in the biggest capacity we can,” said Stephanie Jung Dorfman, Executive Director of Feeding Wisconsin, which was awarded a ...

When it comes to countering stigma, it’s the little things that matter. Food banks and pantries are striving to convey greater respect to clients as a way to combat the stigma that either prevents ...

It’s fair to say that the biggest expenditure in a food bank’s budget is food, especially now, as ongoing demand continues to outstrip the amount of food coming in via donations and federal aid. But ...