Food/Agriculture/Nutrition
Learn more about the data-sharing, outreach, and collaboration with the departments of Agriculture, Human Services, and Education to create the Summer EBT program.
Information on how COVID-19 is exacerbating food insecurity in New Jersey and how philanthropy can support solutions to reduce hunger in the wake of this crisis.
This annual report reveals results of a research study about food insecurity among older adults in the United States. Released by the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) and Feeding America, the study results offer data from the most recent year for which it is available, 2016, and reveals that more older adults faced hunger at this time than before the Great Recession.
Why is the food system important to philanthropy? Because hunger, food insecurity, nutrition-related chronic disease, the health of resource lands and waterways, wages, and equal opportunity in the food economy all converge in our regional food system.
As older adults are increasingly choosing to age in place, cross-cutting issues are coming to the forefront – the quality of care received by disabled or chronically ill older adults in their own homes, and the quality of the jobs of the caregivers who provide this care.
The FirstEnergy Foundation is making its largest investment in hunger relief to date, awarding $1.3 million to 25 New Jersey food banks and pantries during Hunger Action Month.
In recognition of national Hunger Action Month, the PSEG Foundation announced the first cohort of 2026 grant awardees under its Neighborhood Partners Program (NPP), a long-standing initiative that will distribute over $1 million in grants to nonprofit partners and community organizations in New Jersey and on Long Island this year.
In anticipation of Columbia Bank’s acquisition of Freehold Bank, the bank and its foundation awarded grants to 18 organizations totaling more than $100,000.
The Community FoodBank of New Jersey, the state’s largest anti-hunger and anti-poverty organization, has received a $100,000 grant from Bank of America.
The Devils Youth Foundation recently awarded a $100,000 grant to United Community Corp. to support the agency’s community refrigerator initiative and ongoing nutritional programming.
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