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  • Glendale Community College's mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic

    California’s Glendale Community College normally operates a food pantry, called Food for Thought Pantry, for its students. Forced to close to slow the spread of COVID-19, it partnered with the Los Angeles Food Bank and the Glendale Community College charitable foundation to create a mobile food pantry for students and their families. Collecting food from farmers, wholesalers, grocers, growers, and distributors, they served a line of over 1,000 vehicles in April.

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  • Local fundraisers provide meals to health care workers during pandemic

    Community members in North Carolina are crowdfunding campaigns to help provide meals to healthcare workers who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Working with the hospital, the campaign organizers make sure to deliver enough meals for the number of staff working each day, while also rotating units "to reach as many people as possible."

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  • Daniel Goldberg's Zoomers to Boomers Spreads Across Country

    Zoomers to Boomers, a Santa Barbara-based services offering grocery delivery to senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, has grown. What started as a local service, has grown to serve more than 10 cities across the United States. It’s also changed how it operates – creating relationships with local vendors to directly buy produce, protein, and dairy, to limit the needed grocery store visits.

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  • National Network Emerges to Feed Frontline COVID-19 Workers

    The idea of “feeding the frontline” - donating funds to purchase restaurant food that can be delivered to frontline healthcare works amidst the COVID-19 crisis - has spread like wildfire. In cities from San Francisco to Portland to Boston, individuals have stepped up to coordinate efforts and donations. By partnering with World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit founded by a celebrity chef, and Frontline Foods, “an umbrella effort formed to coordinate similar efforts across the country,” these charitable endeavors have gained legitimacy, funds, and the ability to scale.

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  • What some West Coast brands are doing to keep sales flowing during stay-at-home orders

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, food industry leaders, specifically those in the organic and health food category, are trying to figure out how to keep their businesses afloat. Nature’s Path has increased hourly pay of its workers and donated thousands of cases of food to charitable organizations, while smaller organizations like Down to Cook have shifted to direct to consumer models.

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  • Food banks continue their service during COVID-19

    As the COVID-19 pandemics threatens the livelihoods of people around the country, food banks are finding creative ways to stay open while staying safe to serve people who might find it difficult to continue to buy groceries. In Southern California, one food bank launched a drive-through, contactless food pantry. Others are making door-to-door deliveries.

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  • Restaurants Need Income, Families Need Food. Two Marylanders Are Helping Both At Once

    With businesses and families alike hurting during the pandemic, one nonprofit is helping both by buying meals from local restaurants and delivering them to families in need. People who have been stuck at home but want to help their community nonetheless, have donated enough to provide 3,000 meals and almost $30,000 in revenue for local businesses. While the effort isn't a silver bullet, families and business owners are grateful for the help.

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  • With Nothing To 'Fall Back On,' Santa Monica College Food Giveaway Helps Some Students Survive

    In the midst of the COVID19 pandemic, California community college, Santa Monica College, organized a pop-up, drive-thru food giveaway for its students. The resources were funded with help from the Santa Monica College Foundation, and each student received non-perishables, ready-to-eat meals, and bakery items.

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  • California's Streamlined SNAP App Pivots to Meet COVID-19 Demand

    A state’s digital portals can be ways to reach residents’ needs as well as collect data on the real-time effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In California, the state’s SNAP assistance tool, GetCalFresh, emerged as a vital resources in the COVID-19 pandemic. Code for America originally developed the app to simplify access to federal supplemental nutritional assistance programs and is now relaying the needs of citizens as well as providing additional data on economic trends during the crisis.

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  • With Food For All Poor and Door-to-Door Coronavirus Screening, Pandemic-hit Bhilwara Sets Example for Rest of India

    Bhilwara, India has provided food, masks, hand sanitizer, and door-to-door coronavirus screening to 600,000 residents who are not allowed to leave their houses during a total lockdown due to an outbreak of coronavirus. The generosity of donors from NGOs, charities, and individuals was managed efficiently by local government who handed out food staples to thousands of households.

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