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Food Assistance & Distribution Services

See also: Food Policy

Selected Books

All You Can Eat
Berg, Joel
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
HV696.F6 B453 2008
Kerr (executive director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger) explores the politics of hunger in the United States. He describes the scope of the problem and its societal impacts, examines the existing hunger safety net and the impact of welfare reform on hunger in the United States, and explores the reasons hunger in the United States doesn't receive greater attention.
 
Growing up Empty
Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta
Growing up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America
HC110.P6 S327 2002
Growing Up Empty is a study of a hidden epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels. This is a followup twenty years later to her Starving in the Shadow of Plenty. Little has changed.
 
Closing the Food Gap
Winne, Mark
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
HC110.P6 W53 2008
Winne points out that poor people don't eat right because all the supermarkets abandoned poor neighborhoods and poor Americans have lost access to good food. Whatever efforts individual and communities make, he finds, a change in public policy is needed that makes supporting poor people as important as subsidizing farmers.
 

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Web Sites

  • USDA Nutrition Assistance Programs
    Information on federal programs such as Food Stamps, WIC, school breakfast and lunch programs, summer food programs. From the Food and Nutrition Service of the US Department of Agriculture.
  • FAO: The Right to Food
    The Right to Food is the right of every person to have regular access to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food for an active, healthy life. It is the right to feed oneself in dignity, rather than the right to be fed.
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Pittsburgh Region

  • Allegheny County Department of Human Services: Food Assistance Programs
    Lists government food programs and nonprofit food assistance organizations.
  • Allegheny Valley Association of Churches
    a 32 church member association that serves the community through a food bank, a hospitality network and other services.
  • East End Cooperative Ministry (EECM)
    an interfaith coalition of 46 congregations, parishes, and institutions united to minister to the human needs in the East End of Pittsburgh. The people served are the frail, homebound elderly, the hungry, the homeless, and children and youth in underprivileged neighborhoods.
  • Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
    Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that distributes over 1 million pounds of food and grocery products each month to 350 agencies in the 12 county region of Southwestern Pennsylvania, including soup kitchens, food pantries, women's shelters, homeless shelters, and other agencies serving those in need. Their 2006 Hunger Report: "Hunger and Food Insecurity in Southwestern Pennsylvania" is also online.
  • Just Harvest
    An Allegheny County-wide membership organization which promotes economic justice and works to influence public policy and to educate, empower, and mobilize the citizens of our community towards the elimination of hunger
  • Lutheran Services Society of Western Pennsylvania
    The Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania, more commonly referred to as LSS, is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian, community-based provider of social services that enhance the quality of life and promote the dignity and independence of persons in need. It serves persons with the greatest needs and the fewest resources in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, western Maryland and eastern Ohio. LSS maintains food and nutritional service programs; Meals-On-Wheels programs; and food distribution to low income families.
    • Meals on Wheels
      Through its 78 affiliated kitchens, LSS is the largest single provider of MOW in southwestern Pennsylvania, serving 2.2 million individual meals to over 8,000 recipients each year.
  • Rainbow Kitchen Community Services
    Provides support for low-income families through programs that address hunger, childcare and job training and placement.
  • Salvation Army, Western Pennsylvania Division
    Literally thousands of families apply to The Salvation Army annually for food, clothing, shelter and financial assistance.

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