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Creating and implementing a nutrition policy can be a daunting task, but it’s possible to do it step by step, taking advantage of the many tools available to make it easier.

HER Guidelines
The most important of these may be the Healthy Eating Research guidelines. Released in 2020, the guidelines are like the nerve center ...

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When Mid-Ohio Food Collective opens its Eastland Prosperity Center in the fall, it will be a fitting capstone to the career of Matt Habash, who recently announced his retirement from the food bank after 42 years.

More than four decades ago, Habash decided to forego law school to instead work at a community hub based in Columbus, Ohi...

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At the Food Club Network in Michigan, patrons are not “clients” or “neighbors,” but “members,” highlighting a novel way of doing food banking that is about to expand.

Seeking to create an experience that resembles typical grocery shopping, the Food Club Network

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Food banking may be fueled by very tangible, non-artificial things – like food and relationships. But it turns out that there is also plenty of room for artificial intelligence to play a role in the fundamental act of feeding people.

As with any organization, the functions of a food bank include a variety of administrative, routine ...

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GUEST POST FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant promise for the charitable food system. It is arriving now — in donor segmentation tools, demand forecasting pilots, automated grant drafting, and logistics optimization experiments across food banks of every size. But what does the next three to five ...