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January 31, 2012
Howard G. Buffett joins Feeding America President and CEO Vicki Escarra in this response to the Wall Street Journal’s recent article, The Myth of the Starving Americans. As of today, this response has not yet been accepted for publication by the Wall Street Journal. To The Editor: The Myth of Starving Americans by Warren Kozak (Jan.30, 2012) [...]
January 10, 2012
Atlanta Community Food Bank’s Executive Director recently received the phenomenal honor of being named GeorgiaTrend’s Georgian of the Year.
December 1, 2011
President and CEO Vicki Escarra contributed to the Huffington Post her response to the negative commments from the piece that ran yesterday in the New York Times about increase free school lunch participants.
November 22, 2011
The holidays, for me, are bittersweet. I love getting together with my daughters and our family and friends, and I particularly look forward to making my grandmother’s cornbread stuffing — but at a time when most Americans are celebrating abundance, one in six of us is not getting enough to eat.
October 12, 2011
Hunger advocate and health expert Dr. Mache Seibel is an expert on matters concerning the hunger-obesity paradox. This educator, author and speaker shared the following video of a speech he gave to supporters of the Connecticut Food Bank, a member of Feeding America.
September 29, 2011
The budget is a scary topic for any organization – non-profit, corporate, local or federal. Nowhere has the infamous word made more news in the past few months than the government. As we close another successful Hunger Action Month, we are asking the country to think about how they can take part in local advocacy efforts to ensure [...]
August 8, 2011
Every year, Feeding America selects one member food bank to receive the Member of the Year Award. This year’s recipient is Harvesters- The Community Food Network. Karen Haren, the food bank’s President and CEO, shared her thoughts on receiving the award with us.
July 29, 2011
We know the startling fact that one in four children struggle with hunger in America. What are hunger-relief advocates doing about it? Feeding America President and CEO Vicki Escarra recently visited Children’s Healthwatch, a Boston non-profit geared towards shaping public policy to help young children in need. She wrote the following piece for the Huffington [...]
May 20, 2011
President and CEO Vicki Escarra recently celebrated her 5-year anniverary with Feeding America. We got the chance to sit down with her and talk about her time with Feeding America.
May 2, 2011
Bill Thomas, the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Feeding America, flew down to Alabama following the horendous tonradoes of late April. He reported back on the work being done by the member Food Banks in the area: I would like to share with you some of the stories and photographs from my experience on the [...]
