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When Tom Nardacci, CEO of New York State’s Regional Food Bank, considers opportunities for sourcing more food, he sees limits to the amount of food that can be donated, rescued, or government-supplied. He also sees plenty of farms. 

That landscape is the reason behind a new strategy putting much more emphasis on farm-sourced fo...


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A new program at Community Food Share of Colorado underscores the value of listening to community members with lived experience of food insecurity. 

The program, about to be expanded, never would have come into fruition if not for the input from people living in low-income, low food-access communities. Their viewpoint came thro...


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Food banks and farms have long had a special bond, which is proving to have staying power, even without the help of federal funding.

Building ties with local farms was made easy for many food banks during the Biden Administration, thanks to targeted funding from the


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Creating and implementing a nutrition policy can be a daunting task, but it’s possible to do it step by step, taking advantage of the many tools available to make it easier.

HER Guidelines
The most important of these may be the Healthy Eating Research guidelines. Released in 2020, the guidelines are like the nerve center ...


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When Mid-Ohio Food Collective opens its Eastland Prosperity Center in the fall, it will be a fitting capstone to the career of Matt Habash, who recently announced his retirement from the food bank after 42 years.

More than four decades ago, Habash decided to forego law school to instead work at a community hub based in Columbus, Ohi...


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