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
More Seniors Facing Hunger Today Than Before the Great Recession
Two-thirds of Food-Insecure Seniors Have Incomes Above Poverty Line
7 Million Hurricane-Impacted People Were Food Insecure
Map the Meal Gap 2017 Reveals High Populations of Individuals Already Facing Hunger Before Hurricanes Made Landfall
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