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Greater Boston Food Bank CEO Catherine D’Amato on the challenges of feeding the food insecure amid the challenges of COVID, supply chain delays and inflation.

A sight that’s harder to find these days could be seen Monday in Boston: Thanksgiving turkeys were handed out to more than 100 families in Roxbury. That’s thanks to a pair of Guys — New England Patriots Defensive Tackle Lawrence Guy and his wife, Andrea Guy, paid it back at the 11th annual Guy Family Thanksgiving Giveaway at the Orchard…

About one out of every six Rhode Island households struggles to put enough food on the table, significantly lower than during the height of the pandemic last year, but higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released Monday. Black and Latino households were particularly hard hit this year, with 34% percent each unable to meet basic food needs, according…

It is an annual tradition and this year — the need is greater than ever. What makes this United Way’s largest Thanksgiving Project ever is the fact it is being held across 30 locations in eastern Massachusetts and providing meals to over 18,000 families. On Columbia Street in Dorchester, 3,0000 meals were packed and given out to those in need….

The goal: to make sure nobody goes hungry this Thanksgiving

A tight supply chain and rising prices mean Thanksgiving will be 10% to 30% more expensive this year. It’s putting a lot of stress on food banks that are trying to meet rising demand for assistance as the holidays approach. The demand always spikes this time of year, but the current environment is especially difficult. The Vine Food Pantry in…

Elon Musk tweeted he would sell Tesla stock to fight world hunger — if the the head of the UN’s World Food Programme could publish a detailed spending proposal.

Increasing costs and supply shortages are impacting communities in Massachusetts.

A program that has helped food-insecure Vermonters access nutritious meals, while directing revenues to local restaurants, has been extended through the end of 2021. Vermont Everyone Eats operates in each of the state’s 14 counties, and announced the extension on its website. FEMA is currently covering chef-made meals $10 at a time, with the concept addressing people’s food needs and…

Communities have found creative ways to help deal with food insecurity since the pandemic began.

When schools in Massachusetts and across the country shut down in March 2020, one of the biggest concerns was figuring out how to feed children who might otherwise go hungry. “So many families during normal times face food insecurity, and it really became even more so during the pandemic,” said David Semenza, the nutrition services director of Fitchburg Public Schools….

A project in Burlington, Vermont, is using art to uplift a hard-working charity, while helping that nonprofit with a job its own tight budget wouldn’t otherwise have had room for. “It’s popping out now,” said Midhat Hadzic of Feeding Chittenden, Vermont’s largest provider of direct emergency food support, referring to how the nonprofit’s formerly drab and gray building is...

Art is being used to help a hard-working charity in Vermont.

Advocates in Vermont are promising to keep the pressure on policymakers, with a goal of sharply reducing and eventually ending hunger in the communities they serve. The issue came into sharp focus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains a problem for many people. Chereyl Raffuse, who was getting food Thursday from the Upper Valley Haven in…

Advocates are pushing to reduce and end hunger in Vermont communities.

When the coronavirus pandemic hit and schools shut down, in-person learning wasn’t the only thing children were missing out on. Many families in Massachusetts and across the nation relied on school breakfasts and lunches to keep their kids from going hungry. “The pandemic occurred abruptly, we had to pivot abruptly into numerous different feeding systems based on USDA waivers,”...

The Biden administration is expanding a program to feed up to 34 million schoolchildren during the summer months

While the number of Americans going hungry and unable to pay their bills fell last month, new data shows that millions are still struggling. 

Congress approved major food assistance initiatives in the latest Covid-19 relief package signed Thursday by President Biden, including extending SNAP benefits.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will help restaurants partner to provide food assistance.