A few weeks ago, the Vermont Foodbank participated in the Sustainability & Global Health: Connecting Concepts in Development for a Healthier Future GlobeMed at Middlebury Hilltop Conference. There was some great information shared, including the following op-ed written by Hannah Judge. October 11, 2012 Re-thinking the Prescription for American Food Insecurity Here in the United [...]
 The Vermont Foodbank and its network of 270 food shelves, meal sites, shelters, senior centers and after-school programs are experiencing record demand for our services. Thousands of families are finding it harder to make ends meet, struggling with only one wage earner or reduced hours and wages. And as the need for food assistance dramatically [...]
Dollar & Sense: Public Benefits for Economic Gains Hunger's true cost is astonishing. On an individual level, hunger hurts. But hunger in America has a cost far beyond the human suffering. The Center for American Progress estimated that in 2010, hunger cost our country $167.5 billion, or $542 per person -- due to the combination of lost economic [...]
Summer is here, and for thousands of kids in Vermont the meals they receive through school breakfast and lunch programs are the only ones they can count on during the school year. One in 5 Vermont children, under the age of 18, struggles with hunger. Imagine those children during the summer months not knowing when they’ll be able [...]
This is no time for the federal government to be reducing the food available to food banks nationwide, but that is just what's happening. See the update below: Update on Recent TEFAP Purchases Feeding America learned last week that USDA is making $50 million available for the purchase of a variety of canned, frozen, and [...]
A letter to first lady Michelle Obama Written by Melissa Pasanen, Correspondent http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110630/NEWS02/110629043/A-letter-first-lady-Michelle-Obama-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE 8:02 AM, Jun. 30, 2011 Dear Mrs. Obama, Last spring, I spent a couple hours at the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf observing people pick up their weekly allowance of groceries. It was not the first time I’d been to a food shelf [...]