Feeding America Case Study

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Overview/Background Feeding America is a nonprofit organization based in the Unites States whose goal is to take on the hunger crisis in America. Their beginnings start in the 1960s by a man named John van Hengel. Being retired, he spent his time volunteering at a soup kitchen. He met a woman who would go through the garbage bins behind the grocery stores. She mentioned to him that she wished there was a place where food that is going to be thrown out but still good, can be sent so people like her could have access to. This was the beginnings to Van Hengels idea for a food bank was born. The first food bank was established in Phoenix, Arizona and was called St. Mary’s Food Bank. The success of St. Mary’s spread and other food banks were

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