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Your Guide to Gleaning: Rescuing Food & Fighting Hunger

Food banks work with local farmers to provide fresh, local produce to people facing hunger and rescue food that would otherwise go to waste. Sometimes, food banks go directly to...
By Ash Slupski on
October 13, 2021
Volunteer Food Donations Food Waste
A food bank employee hands a recipe book to a man.

Preserving the ancestral recipes of our Latino neighbors

By Paul Morello on
September 23, 2021
Food and family are often inseparable. Recipes are passed down from generation to generation. It becomes a rite of passage and an honor to learn grandma’s “secret” ingredient to her...
Latino / Hispanic Hunger
Irene volunteering at a food bank in San Antonio.

How Schools and Food Banks Feed Students During Crisis

By Irene Alvarez on
September 17, 2021
During Hispanic Heritage Month, Feeding America is sharing the stories of Latino leaders from food banks and their partners across the country.My name is Irene. I’ve been working at Sul...
Coronavirus
A young woman kneels outside a food bank

How we measure hunger in America

By Ash Slupski on
September 16, 2021
Hunger. Food insecurity. Charitable food participation. What do these all mean?There are many different numbers about how the pandemic affected people's ability to keep food on the table. It isn't...
Volunteers unpacking food from a box.

How Food Banks Fed Louisianans After Hurricane Ida

By Paul Morello on
September 2, 2021
Updated 9/8/21What’s Happening?On Sunday, August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida made landfall about 60 miles south of New Orleans, Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. With sustained winds of up to...
Disaster Response
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Teen hunger, the hidden child hunger

By Ash Slupski on
August 24, 2021
When we think about child hunger in the United States, we often think about hunger that affects the youngest kids. But millions of teens don’t have reliable access to food.And...

Why college students face hunger

By Olivia Thoelke on
August 20, 2021
Many of us remember being “broke” college students with tight grocery budgets and knowledge of all the best student discounts. But for the 39 percent of U.S. undergrads who are...

4 ways food banks are feeding kids right now

By Feeding America Staff on
August 18, 2021
As the COVID-19 delta variant surges, schools and families are continuing to face difficult decisions about how best to keep kids safe in the upcoming school year. School districts are...
Coronavirus
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I volunteer at a summer meals site in Arizona. This is what hunger looks like when school's out.

By Theresa Peters on
July 23, 2021
I know firsthand that for a lot of kids, the summer isn’t fun. It should be an energizing break from school. Kids should hang out, go to the pool, see movies....

Julie Bowen: Summer EBT is one of our best bets for ending child summer hunger

By Julie Bowen on
July 14, 2021
As a mom, one of my greatest joys is watching my kids thrive — it’s something every family deserves. Unfortunately, millions of children are struggling to learn and grow because...

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