Chris Costanzo

Students who succeeded in securing a total of $1 million in the Michigan state budget to address college food insecurity achieved their goal in part by placing their fellow students’ stories at the center of their campaign. In 2024, Michigan State Univers... See more

Our CEO Roundtable this year took place literally hours after the government shutdown that suspended SNAP payments to millions of Americans had ended. But relief was not one of the emotions expressed by the 12 food bank leaders on the call. Every November... See more

A Food is Medicine program at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York is succeeding in helping diabetes patients measurably improve their health. The food bank’s 12-week Food Farmacy program provides patient households with weekly boxes of healthy... See more

A visit to San Diego’s Comic Con museum has given rise to a social enterprise business at Feeding San Diego that uses superhero tales to inspire school kids to get involved in fighting hunger. Feeding San Diego’s comic book and classroom curriculum, Hunge... See more

In a report that Amazon put out earlier this year about charitable meal delivery programs, it identified various ways to make such programs more sustainable. One suggestion, gleaned from focus groups of food bankers, was to have third-party meal-delivery ... See more