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Mid-Ohio Food Collective's Eastland Prosperity Center will be five times as large as any of the food bank’s current Mid-Ohio ...
Second Harvest Heartland has come up with a brand new way of defining and measuring hunger and food insecurity.
The state of Massachusetts recently reached a milestone in its Food is Medicine journey. At the beginning of this year, 43 ...
The state of Massachusetts recently reached a milestone in its Food is Medicine journey. At the beginning of this year, 43 community-based organizations in the state, including many food banks, became ...
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 ...
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, ...
Feed More of Virginia recently disclosed the results of a Food is Medicine pilot that delivered significant improvements in health outcomes. The low-cost pilot resulted in an average decrease in blood ...
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 ...
Food banks are keeping calm and carrying on amid uncertainty around directives from the new administration that could threaten federal hunger relief programs. The federal government foots the funding ...
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 ...
Two years in the making, Second Harvest Inland Northwest recently unveiled an initiative aimed at sourcing way more food, while ensuring absolutely none of it goes to waste. The name of the program ...