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Here I am, the self-styled “King O’ The Yams.’ Standing on the prow of the Titanic, Leo was “King of the World.” Well I’m sitting on a pile of boxes of yams in a drafty warehouse, and so I’m ‘King O’...
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Healthy School Pantry creates a Community of Winners
Here is it, a hunk of glass, that says the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s Healthy School Pantry program is the best Children’s nutrition program in the nation. The award was presented at the 2012...
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Bike Blenders: The Perfect Vehicle for Food Bank Outreach
It’s not refrigerated, it can’t carry ten pallets of food. In fact, it won’t even get you anywhere. No matter how hard you peddle. It is the ‘Fender Blender’, a blender that mounts on the back of an...
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Going Beyond SNAP: Food Bank Nutrition Advisors and Advocates in the Community
We are hopefully past the days when human services programs are ‘done’ to people via a one-way transmission of goods or services by well meaning and sometimes efficient program staff. Yet we do still...
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The Backpack Program: Sacred Cow or Fatted Calf?
Everybody loves backpack. It is one of the maxims of food banking. BackPack provides emergency supplemental food assistance to children to ease hunger over the weekend. The backpacks (in reality...
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Essential New Guide to Nutrition Education Resources from Why Hunger?
It’s great to have a nonprofit’s name in the form of a question. It is a good way of having the conversation with the community already having begun before you open your mouth. In the case of Why...
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Food Pantries with Case Management build both Measurable Food Security and...
Some of the themes that have been bubbling up in recent posts have concerned food banks searching for ways to impact client’s lives for the longer term, and then how we might be able to measure that...
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Restarting the SNAP discussion in your community – by utilizing a ‘Food...
At last, a Foodbank CEO shuts up long enough to actually sling some groceries! Talking about SNAP to many of our traditional supporters can be like talking to our teenage kids about sex. We know we...
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Sick of Crunching Gears? How can you restructure your organization around...
People are doing new things in the food banking world. In our search to ‘shorten the line,’ we are getting involved in areas that we had not been involved with in the past – educational programs,...
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Building Food Security Street by Street
Hunger is always perceived as a hyper-local issue. Smaller scale cash donors within a city or town in your service area are often very concerned that their dollars are spent for food within that...
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Game of Thrones: Keeping your Zest for Leadership over Time
The E.D. had sacrificed a lot to get to sit in the big chair, though maybe it was time to trade it in for an Aeron. This one gave him a crick in the back. Or was it a dagger?? Three years ago, I...
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