Houston Food Bank has been recognized by the Better Business Bureau of Greater Houston and South Texas with a 2025 BBB Award for Excellence, honoring businesses that demonstrate superior commitment to ethics, integrity and trust in the marketplace. Houston Food Bank was recognized in the category of Large Non-Profit Organization with a Pinnacle award, [...]
Backpack Blast is Houston Food Bank’s annual clay shooting tournament with a powerful purpose. This isn’t just a day of friendly competition, it’s a vital effort to support children who lack enough food when school meals aren’t available. Over the past ten years, thanks to generous supporters like you, Backpack Blast has raised over [...]
KRBE, Houston’s #1 Hit Music station, will be reaching out to for community donations again this year with the 3rd Annual Turkey Tour With Kevin & Audrey, sponsored by Kroger. All donations collected will go to Houston Food Bank to help people in communities across the Houston area struggling with food insecurity. The Turkey [...]
The Houston Food Bank’s Operation: Hunger Relief is a four-week competition in which groups of all sizes compete against each other to support hunger relief in our community. Groups compete to raise the most meals by donating time, food, and funds. This year the Operation: Hunger Relief competition was held from سبتمبر 1, 2025, [...]
On سبتمبر 18, members of the Community Assistance Program (CAP) attended the Feeding Texas Conference in San Antonio, TX alongside other Texas food bank SNAP program staff. The Houston Food Bank’s Community Assistance Program was given recognition for the food bank with the highest number of total referrals to partner organizations in the Referral [...]
How is it possible that food banks are providing exponentially more meals to the community each year, but food insecurity is still growing all across the country? Brian Greene, President & CEO of Houston Food Bank, sat down with Feeding Tampa Bay and dove into the problem in eye-opening detail. Tune in [...]
Understanding how Houston Food Bank can assist with a possible government shutdown One of Congress's responsibilities is to approve and pass the national budget. As it was not passed by the deadline, the government has gone into a shutdown. We want our neighbors to be informed about the services and resources Houston Food [...]
Would you be able to eat enough nutritious foods for $6.00 a day? Our Community Assistance Program (CAP) team takes on the SNAP Challenge. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, is a government program that is designed to help low income people buy enough nutritious food when they need it. Qualifications to participate include [...]
Protein is a highly requested food bank item – that's why Houston Food Bank is excited that dry black beans will be added to the TEFAP catalogue for food banks to purchase. The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) provides shelf-stable, nutritious, and American-grown foods to low-income children, seniors, and families facing hunger across the [...]
Houston Food Bank would like to thank the estate of Don Arnold and Dan Electro’s for the charity art auction on أغسطس 24 to benefit the food bank. Don was a long time collector of the work of Houston artist and musician Beans Barton, and his family auctioned off a large portion of his [...]
