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SNAP Takes Center Stage In Online Advocacy Efforts
Our annual scan of the website advocacy efforts of the top 100 food banks (by revenue) uncovered a trend toward food banks seeking to provide deeper information and assistance related to SNAP. SNAP...
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One Performer’s Unconventional Call for Change in Hunger Relief
Kristina Wong, a performance artist who also goes by the descriptors comedian, writer, actor and Guggenheim Fellow, has found unlikely inspiration in food banks. In March 2025, she premiered her solo...
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Ten Years In: Neighbor Advocates Still Deliver
The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is celebrating ten years of lifting the voices of people who best understand what it’s like to be food insecure. For ten years, its Speaker Series program has...
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Should More Food Banks be Collecting Food-Insecurity Data?
Not many food banks produce detailed reports about the level of food insecurity throughout their service areas, but the ones that do cite numerous benefits. With the USDA ceasing publication of its...
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Student Stories Drive $1 Million Advocacy Win in Michigan
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...
View ArticleSmall Advocacy Win Would Have Big Impact
San Francisco Marin Food Bank is asking its state government for a very small amount of money that it expects will have a very big impact. It introduced a bill late last month that would restore...
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How the ‘Right to Food’ is Shaping Up in the U.S.
The idea that people have a “right to food” in the U.S. is starting to gain some footing. Perhaps the biggest sign is a resolution passed last month in New Jersey declaring that residents in the state...
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Houston Food Bank’s ‘Civic Hubs’ Push Voting
Houston Food Bank is intent on getting out the vote. In what appears to be a first, the nation’s third-largest food bank is building a network of “civic hubs,” aimed at educating people about the...
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Turning Kids into Hunger Action Heroes
A visit to San Diego’s Comic Con museum has given rise to a social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego that uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting hunger. Feeding...
View ArticleWhat Will Replace the USDA Food Security Report?
Hunger relief advocates are starting to move beyond their dismay that the USDA will no longer be publishing its annual survey tracking food insecurity, and are starting to consider the various tools...
View ArticleWebsite Advocacy Activities Push Voting
Our annual scan of the website advocacy efforts of the top 100 food banks (by revenue) uncovered a noticeable trend toward food banks seeking to engage visitors in activities related to voting. Their...
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Daily Bread of Canada Scores a Big Advocacy Win
Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto scored such a big win for the disabled community recently, that now it’s doubling down on its efforts. In July, monthly checks for $200 began showing up in the...
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What Does it Mean to End Hunger, Really?
When Second Harvest Heartland of Minneapolis gave itself the goal of cutting hunger in half by 2030, it struggled mightily with defining exactly what success would look like. Would it succeed when...
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Food Bank Expands Poverty-Fighting Program
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana is expanding a multi-pronged program it developed that aims to lift people out of poverty. A three-year strategic plan, to be initiated this year, will...
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Who Are Food Banking’s Next Leaders?
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...
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From 7,000 Bills to Eight Priorities: Building Project Bread’s Policy Agenda
One of the most difficult aspects of advocacy for nonprofits is figuring out where to focus the most energy and attention. Boston-based Project Bread, which promotes food security and food access...
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What the People Say
Feeding children, making SNAP easier to access, and promoting food as medicine all bubbled up as high priorities for nearly 1,500 adults with lived experience of food insecurity who responded to a...
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Seven Takeaways on the Federal Funding Cuts
March was not a good month for food banks. 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,...
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Food Banks Carry On Amid Threats to Funding
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...
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Food Banks and Pantries Seek to Welcome Immigrants
There has always been an undercurrent of anxiety among undocumented populations seeking food assistance. Food Bank News noted underground food distributions for the undocumented as far back as 2020,...
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