Written By: Katie Fitzgerald, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Feeding America “1,300 families received food yesterday; more than half were new recipients.” – Akron Community Food Bank, Akron, OH. “Today we provided over 2,100 households with food boxes—four times more than normal.” – United Food Bank, Mesa, AZ.
These phrases, echoed by food banks across the country, give context to what’s happening on the front lines as people face hunger for the first time and food banks face new challenges to meet record-breaking demands.
Feeding America is a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs across the country. It is not an exaggeration to say that this pandemic is creating a food assistance
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