Food clubs that require members to pay a small monthly fee represent a new way of doing food banking that is about to expand.

Our Food Drive Resource Hub aims to help food banks take advantage of the massive inclination among Americans to give generously when it comes to food. The hub offers insights on how to maximize ...

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 ...

The Greater Boston Food Bank has always seen itself as a trailblazer in prioritizing health and nutrition in food banking. It has been among the earliest, if not the first, to have a physician on ...

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, ...

CUMAC’s two-story facility in Northern New Jersey has the look and feel of a standard food bank, with a warehouse, a handful of trucks, a client-choice pantry, and even a small garden. In practice, ...

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 ...

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 ...

After seeing clients brace sweltering heat, limited access to bathrooms, and other physical challenges while waiting on pantry lines, The Campaign Against Hunger knew it had to step in. Just before ...

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 ...

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 ...

A framework for hunger relief pioneered in Canada is slowly making its way into the United States. Gather, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based nonprofit founded in 1816 to support the families of fishermen, has ...