United Way of the Bay Area recently awarded Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties a $28,000 grant to provide infrastructure and capacity upgrades for their partner emergency food pantries. As opposed to a soup kitchen, an emergency food pantry is a program which provides non-perishable and perishable food to families [...]
Rising Numbers of Children Living in Poverty
June 8, 2010 by
According to an alarming article in today’s USA Today, “the rate of children living in poverty this year will climb to nearly 22%, the highest rate in two decades, according to an analysis by the non-profit Foundation for Child Development. Nearly 17% of children were living in poverty in 2006, before the recession began.” The [...]
Hunger Could be Closer Than You Think
May 12, 2010 by
Over at the East Bay Express they have a good article about the USDA’s report (which we discussed here) about hunger in which they highlight a few stories of local people who don’t have enough to eat. The piece focuses on food insecurity which is not just a measurement of people who don’t have enough [...]
Stamp Out Hunger on Facebook!
April 1, 2010 by
With an assist from Campbell’s soup, Stamp Out Hunger, the nation’s largest food drive is using Facebook to feed the hungry. If you join Stamp Out Hunger’s Facebook fan page, Campbell’s will donate 1 can of soup ( up to 1 million pounds!) to Feeding America. Organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers, this [...]
Food Insecurity on the Rise
March 5, 2010 by
A report released last month and available on Feeding America details the rise of food insecurity in the country. Feeding America is the nation’s largest network of more than 200 food banks and the largest domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Each year, Feeding America secures and distributes more than 2.6 billion pounds of [...]
10 Ways You Can Fight Hunger In the Bay Area
December 30, 2009 by
Over on our twitter feed, we found out about twitterforfood.com which is using social media to help fight hunger. As we head into the end of the year, there are many people in the Bay Area who won’t have a big traditional meal with family. According to area food banks, demand is expected to be [...]
Living on $4 a Day
October 2, 2009 by
How well would you survive if your entire meal budget was just $4 a day? As part of the San Francisco Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge, for seven days, several notable Bay Area journalists, and bloggers tried to see how well they could manage on the budget of a food stamp recipient. According to the Food [...]
