At Central MA Food Rescue, we're purchasing and distributing farm fresh produce to food banks and food pantries in MA. We're in the midst of a hunger crisis and we need all hands on deck to ensure that no person goes to sleep hungry. Learn more about how you can help our cause by...
Use of food pantries growingMary Ann Ford
Office Snack Gourmet are recipes designed to turn even the most disgusting of office snacks into delicious gourmet meals. Since a lot of these ingredients are laying around a typical office (or vending machine), there's no better time to get creative, save money, and still treat yourself to ...
Feeding a need Rising prices have food pantries in the region seeing an increase in first-timersMary Ann Ford
Food pantries typically operate in a partnership structure where they are primarily supported by a larger food bank. However, the ability to execute that mission through cooperative arrangements greatly depends upon accountability, a key dynamic that ensures partners are fulfilling expectations and key ...
Short-term emergency solutions, such as food pantries, may be useful, butupstream solutions to address basic needs are imperative.Aydin NazmiSuzanna MartinezAjani ByrdFood Science and Nutrition Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo USAJournal of Hunger and Environmental ...
The most common food-specific services were referrals to food pantries (16.9%; 704/4166) and food delivery programs (14.1%; 585/4166). The most common non-food-specific services were a stipend for financial assistance (43.2%) and resource navigation with tailored referrals for patients' needs...
31.1% (23) of those contacted were no longer interested in food resource referrals, 10.8% (8) were signed up for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and 59.5% (44) were referred to local food pantries. Conclusions : Through hospital-community partnership in an initial attempt to ...
Phenomena of interest:Impact of COVID-19 on food insecurity and use of micro-pantries to mitigate it; benefits of, suggested improvements to, and adoption and administration of micro-pantries. Analysis:We transcribed the data verbatim and performed deductive qualitative content analysis. Results:...
Food acquisition and shopping habits measures including travel distances between residential location and each of the used stores, shopping frequency, store type, transportation, and utilization of community food resources, such as food banks or pantries and church or social services were used. Latent...