Audiobook8 hours
Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger
Written by Katie S. Martin
Narrated by Amanda Ronconi
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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 organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing 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.
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.
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Reviews for Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is full of helpful and practical ways to address food security. There is a dearth of literature (at least in my limited experience) about this issue, but specifically, *how* to address food security. I am now better informed about this subject and energized to make our church food pantry be more far-reaching, sustainable, and accessible (regardless of how one defines accessibility).
The narrator for this book, Amanda Ronconi, was engaging and conversational in her approach, which is a definite asset with an audiobook. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A fairly good narrative. I feel it could have been much more concise and meatier. For example mentions offering job training but absolutely no direction on how to set that up.