Map the Meal Gap Study released by Feeding America shows more kids and families impacted by lack of nutritious food. Just as the U.S. House of Representatives is considering devastating budget cuts to SNAP and Medicaid – programs that help older adults, children and hard-working families, the newly released Map the Meal Gap report shows [...]
The U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s proposed spending cuts to SNAP and Medicaid would increase food insecurity, reduce access to health insurance, and lead to poorer outcomes.These cuts will present states, including Texas, with a financial burden and choices between funding education, other important government responsibilities, and the increased cost of nutrition and health services. They [...]
On Thursday, May 8th, as part of their Fighting Texas Hunger Campaign, Mrs. Baird’s volunteers came to Houston Food Bank to donate and assemble meals for our Kids Café meals program. The volunteers packed 3,601 lunches that included Mrs. Baird's bread, turkey and cheese sandwiches, baby carrots with ranch dressing and pears. That’s 7202 individual [...]
Food Allergy Action Month May is Food Allergy Action Month and although food intolerances and food allergies may get mistaken for each other, they are completely different things. So you might be asking then, what is the difference? A food intolerance is when a person has difficulty digesting a particular food, and involves [...]
On April 23rd, 24th, and 25th of 2025, the Houston Food Bank honored its most outstanding corporate volunteers with the President’s Volunteer Service Award. A grand total of 193 corporations attended the three-day awards — The cumulative hours/meals donated for the corporations that attended the 2024 award ceremonies: 72,025 hours donated in 2024 (facilitating a [...]
Houston Food Bank is facing an $11 million cut in federal funding, which equates to about 500 fewer truckloads of nutritious food like produce, dairy, and protein for our neighbors facing food insecurity. As mentioned on Houston Public Media, ABC 13, Hoodline, and KHOU 11, these cuts will significantly impact our services. Despite having to [...]
Recently Policy Analyst Amanda Pope with Houston Food Bank and Associate Program Manager Jordan Pacelli Everett with Prevention Institute published an Op-Ed in the Houston Chronicle on the upcoming legislation HB 32 and SB 38. You can read the piece here. Houston Food Bank strives to address the root causes of food insecurity, we [...]
While the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo has packed up and the last of the animals, cowboys and cowgirls, and carnival rides and vendors have gone, the impact of the event is still being felt. RCS Carnival Midway, who operates the food concessions in the popular carnival area, helped coordinate donations from his company [...]
Houston Food Bank's Community Health team hosted its annual Community Health Summit recently with guests from all over to discuss various factors that affect nutrition of our neighbors. Sessions were held to discuss state and federally funded services, Healthy Eating Research Nutrition Guidelines, Food Prescription (FoodRX) program, Medically Tailored Meals, factors of food insecurity [...]
Learn more about Empty Bowls with Houston Food Bank’s Sean Crowl and ABC channel 13. Empty Bowls is Saturday, March 22, from 10am to 3pm at: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 4848 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002