Hunger Blog

We had to say goodbye to our summer intern, Dylan Conn as he makes his way back to finish school at Stanford. He wrote about his visit to the Northern Illinois Foodbank in the suburbs of Chicago.

Emergency food from pantries is no longer being used to meet temporary acute food needs. A majority of our clients now visit food pantries as a ���normal�۝ part of their strategy to supplement monthly shortfalls in food.

Sharon Alexander, is the Development Coordinator at Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and NE Pennsylvania and we asked her to write about Pack 'Til They're Back

Today is President and CEO Vicki Escarra's last day in the Feeding America offices before she heads over to Opportunity International. I got a chance to sit down with her earlier this week.

Richard Ray spent the summer with us as a Communication Intern primarily working on SNAP (food stamp) efforts. As his internship comes to a close, we asked him to talk about his time with us.

Meet Briana who like the nutritious food that she gets from the Kids Cafe she visits in Boston.

The federal government is one of many partners in the fight against hunger, and it is uniquely positioned to help us advance our cause. We have a set of public policy issues that we work on, including fighting for funding for programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), child hunger programs, and others. Our policy goals derived from our values as an organization and as a nation.

Today, Tickets-for-Charity's founder, Jord Poster has passed away after fighting a year-long battle with non-smoker's lung cancer. I have had the opportunity of knowing Jord through maintaining Feeding America's partnership with Tickets for Charity but his compassion for those in need runs constant throughout the entire company. Jord founded Tickets-for-Charity in 2005 to create the first and largest free charitable fundraising platforms and pioneering the concept of using a portion of proceeds from sale of events to fund charities.