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Informationen zum Autor Katie Martin, PhD, is the CEO of More Than Food Consulting, LLC whose goal is to advance organizational and systems change in the charitable food system to ensure people have economic and nutrition security. She is recognized as a thought leader on food security issues and has over 25 years of experience developing and evaluating programs to promote health, stability and financial wellbeing. She earned a Ph.D. in Nutrition Science & Policy from Tufts University. Katie is happily married, is the proud mom of two sons, and blessed to be a host parent for an exchange student from Nigeria. Klappentext In the US, food banks and pantries provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries , Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed. The key is shifting our focus from a lack of food to strategies that build empathy, equity, and political will. Martin shares solutions in a warm, engaging style, with simple steps that anyone working or volunteering at a food bank or pantry can take today. Solutions range from providing client choice, where individuals select their own food with dignity, to offering job training programs and joining the fight for a living wage. As Martin writes, it takes more than food to end hunger. Picking up this insightful, lively book is a great first step. Zusammenfassung Anyone working to end hunger can learn from these innovative, proven strategies and inspiring success stories.
