A01=Katie S Martin
Author_Katie S Martin
Category=JBFC
Charitable food
Client choice
Diabetes prevention
Emergency food
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Food assistance
Food bank
Food hubs
Food pantry
Food security
Food stamps
Hunger
Hunger-relief organizations
Job training
Nutrition education
SNAP
Working poor
Wrap-around services
Product details
- ISBN 9781642831535
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organisations such as food pantries and meal programmes. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. Where are they going wrong?
In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed. The key is to focus on the root causes of hunger. When we shift our attention to strategies that build empathy, equity, and political will, we can implement real solutions.
Martin shares those solutions in a warm, engaging style, with simple steps that anyone working or volunteering at a food bank or pantry can take today. Some are short-term strategies to create a more dignified experience for food pantry clients: providing client choice, where individuals select their own food, or redesigning a waiting room with better seating and a designated greeter. Some are longer-term: increasing the supply of healthy food, offering job training programs, or connecting clients to other social services. And some are big picture: joining the fight for living wages and a stronger social safety net.
These strategies are illustrated through inspiring success stories and backed up by scientific research. Throughout, readers will find a wealth of proven ideas to make their charitable food organizations more empathetic and more effective. As Martin writes, it takes more than food to end hunger. Picking up this insightful, lively book is a great first step.
Katie S. Martin is the Executive Director of the Foodshare Institute for Hunger Research & Solutions. She is recognized as a thought leader on food security issues, and has presented her research at dozens of regional and national conferences.
