Our recent blog posts have featured articles dealing with issues related to seniors, hunger and waste that were produced by other organizations and reprinted here by permission. This blog, written by Alexandra Ashbrook, Director of Special Projects and Initiatives at...

This blog is republished with permission from the Natural Resources Defense Council by  Andrea Spacht Many of us now realize that food waste is a big problem in the U.S. But did you know that a lot of that food is wasted in our homes—probably more than 40 percent in...

A recent issue of the The Nutrition Source published by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health contained a thoughtful article entitled "The Plate and Planet." It examines the issue of shifting to a "planetary health diet" for the benefit of both the people who...

by Peggy Ingraham Here in the Mid-Atlantic we have just experienced one of the most significant snowfalls in the past few years. It was the type of snow that left the trees dressed in what looked like frosting on a cupcake – the kind of scene captured in pictorial...

What would each and every one of you respond if you were all asked simultaneously “what time is it?” Chances are the chorus of answers would be pretty cacophonous, given the fact that you reside across a number of time zones. But there is a universal answer to such a...

by Tom Marullo “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” It’s an iconic line from the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy and her companions discover the true identity of the Wizard and get a glimpse of how he performs his “magic.” Needless to say, Dorothy was...

Last Thursday would normally have been the day for our blog post to appear in this space but we knew folks would not be sitting in their offices checking their emails. Last Thursday was, as we all know, Thanksgiving Day here in America. And Thanksgiving Day in America...

by Matthew Levine We’ve been fighting senior hunger as an organization for many years. And I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to be involved for about ten of those years. Unfortunately, as I look back, many of those years blend together. Of course, there are some...

When we or people we care about are injured or ill, we often ask the questions, “will they recover and, if so, when?”  Needless to say, the answers – and the outcomes to which they refer – vary widely. Some folks recover rapidly and fully; others do not recover at...

From time to time in the past, we used this space to report on the progress of the first nine congregate nutrition programs (CNPs) in Georgia that participated in NFESH’s What A Waste program. The results, although varying in degree from one CNP to another, were...