Bring Your Skills to the Table: Help Food Shelves Work Better for Everyone Foundation for Essential Needs (FFEN) is looking for three passionate leaders to join our Board of Directors. If you care deeply about consistent and dignified food access for all and want to...

Rising grocery prices are hitting families and food shelves alike. Still, food shelf leaders keep stocking what shoppers say they need most: fresh produce, protein, dairy and eggs. FFEN's latest Strategic Food Sourcing Analysis, a six-month "health check" for food...

Fifteen Years of FFEN: One Food Shelf, One Question at a Time Fifteen years ago, a few board members at a Bloomington food shelf watched it run short on volunteers, food and money. Every decision was a reaction to the next emergency. They decided there had to be a...

At CAPI Food Shelf, Mayly Xiong said people are talking with one another, sharing stories, sharing updates on their lives, and the interactions have become less transactional. "They become community friends – people who make a difference at the food shelf, not just...

Jodi Donley was once a food shelf shopper. She said she was treated with respect and dignity, never shame, never judgment. "Those moments when you're not treated as less than, they change families' lives, they changed my life," she said. "Those family meals, they...

As Aurea Osgood stocked the shelves of the campus food pantry at Winona State University, she chatted with an international student who bypassed the tuna because she didn’t know how to prepare it. “I grew up with it so I didn’t think twice,” Osgood said. She explained...