Chris Costanzo

Food banking may be fueled by very tangible, non-artificial things – like food and relationships. But it turns out that there is also plenty of room for artificial intelligence to play a role in the fundamental act of feeding people. As with any organizat... See more

GUEST POST FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant promise for the charitable food system. It is arriving now — in donor segmentation tools, demand forecasting pilots, automated grant drafting, and logistics optimizat... See more

Food banks broke the record books in 2025 in terms of raising funds and growing donors, outperforming even Covid-era results. The government shutdown during the fall, combined with ongoing reductions in SNAP funding, drove a year-end surge in crisis-drive... See more

Many food banks operate agency co‑op purchasing programs, but few fully optimize them. One mid-sized food bank recently demonstrated how much untapped potential these programs hold. Without adding warehouse space, hiring staff, or investing in new infrast... See more

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is proving that people with lived experience of hunger have a multitude of expertise to lend to food banks. Like a growing number of food banks, it already taps its clients to tell their personal stories to legislators to adv... See more