February 11, 2025

Katie had the opportunity to talk with David Calzi, the CEO of St. Vincent de Paul Louisville, for their monthly podcast. Listen to the episode here where Katie and David discuss various ways that food pantries are reinventing how they tackle hunger to offer more than food.

November 20, 2024

College food pantries have come a long way since their beginnings, but are they really helping to address the root causes of food insecurity among college students? This article discusses what additional support is needed for students and highlights higher education institutions that are thinking radically about college food and economic security.

May 15, 2024

Katie Martin was featured in this Columbia Missourian article exploring the new market launched by the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri to address root causes of hunger.

June 12, 2023

Letting food pantry clients choose their own food is widely accepted as a dignified way to distribute charitable food. But for pantries that have always packed up bags, moving to that “client choice” model can be an intimidating prospect.

September 26, 2023

Listen to Katie Martin join the Executive Director of the Franklin Food Bank, Derek Smith, speak about success in anti-hunger work and how even the model of client choice as the premiere example of food assistance can be fine tuned, adjusted, and improved.

August 23, 2023

Food innovations that are changing the way people eat

In case you missed it, CEO Katie Martin spoke on Connecticut Public’s Disrupted program about trends in food security initiatives.

August 18, 2023

In 2020, when Healthy Eating Research introduced nutrition guidelines designed to be easy for food banks to adopt and use, it hoped that Feeding America members would move toward the new framework over the next five years.