The Work to Lift Food-Bank Wages is Ongoing
Dec 4, 2024 · In New York City, perhaps the most expensive place in the U.S. to rent an apartment, Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, ensured that everyone in its organization was earning a …
More Food Banks Lift Wages, Setting an Example
May 10, 2022 · Food banks across the country and in Canada report undertaking compensation studies and/or instituting wage increases to ensure employees are getting fair pay and can afford basic costs …
Boosting Farmworker Wages to Cut the Food Line
May 19, 2023 · The Fair Food Program from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers offers a way for food banks to show their support for farmworkers.
Strategy Archives - Page 4 of 9 - Food Bank News
Food banks across the country and in Canada report undertaking compensation studies and/or instituting wage increases to ensure employees are getting fair pay and can…
Does the Pantry of the Future Involve Payment? - Food Bank News
Mar 2, 2022 · Around 2018, Scott Rumpsa started noticing that a majority of people coming to the food pantry and resource center that he runs had steady incomes. But higher rents and living expenses …
What Equity Looks Like Inside the Food Bank
Jul 28, 2020 · Through that lens, the food bank has better understood how it might be exploiting bi-lingual cultures by indicating a preference for foreign-language speakers in its hiring, but not …
Food Banks, Pantries Identify Wages as Hunger’s Culprit
Oct 28, 2019 · A survey of food banks and pantries released earlier this month underscores the difficulty of beating hunger using current methods. The good news is that 90% of the nearly 300 food banks …
What the People Say - Food Bank News
Sep 21, 2024 · Feeding children, making SNAP easier to access, and promoting food as medicine all bubbled up as high priorities for nearly 1,500 adults with lived experience of food insecurity who …
NC Food Bank Expects $24M in ‘Food is Medicine’ Revenue
The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina expects to be earning $2 million a month for its Food is Medicine efforts in three years.
“We Need Money.” Food Banks Scramble for Funds
Apr 16, 2020 · The quest for funds is on, as food banks seek to aid millions of Americans stricken by economic fallout from the coronavirus. With donated food slowing to a trickle, demand skyrocketing …