As part of Hunger in America 2014, food banks that participated in the study received local food bank reports outlining the characteristics of clients and partner agencies within their food bank’s service area. Additionally, in states where all food banks participated in the study, a state-level report was also generated. Below are a sampling of these local reports.
Local Reports
Diabetes in the food-pantry line: how food banks can help reach the hard-to-reach
This blog is re-posted from Urban Institute's blog, Urban Wire.On a sunny spring day in 2013, the Redwood Empire Food Bank of Sonoma County, California, set up a mobile food pantry in the parking lot of a boarded-up Albertson’s supermarket. Nearly 85 people—mostly mothers with very young children—came to pick up fruits and vegetables, which can be expensive items for low-income families.
Food Banks Link Diabetics to Healthy Food and Medical Care
In 2010, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation launched a national philanthropic initiative called Together on Diabetes™ with the goal to improve health outcomes of people living with type 2 diabetes, and particularly those who have been most heavily affected by the disease such as the elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, and the poor. In this initiative, the Foundation has provided $53 million in grants to support partners working in over 70 communities in 28 states and the District of Columbia to develop and test innovative ways of expanding access to diabetes self-management education in c