Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries

”[Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries] focuses on the kinds of strategies that lend to client empowerment, promoting a new way of designing food banks and pantries to be not just more accessible, but more widely supportive of nutrition and other social services for the needy…. No social issues collection should be without this practical assessment of food distribution choices and their accompanying potential for community support and change.“– “Donovan’s Literary Services”“In her new book, Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger, Katie S. Martin… offers a blueprint for change. She provides a thoughtful guide for transforming food-focused charities into centers of community empowerment that foster long-term stability and advocates for a paradigm shift away from the notion of hunger as a short-term emergency….[The book] provides historical context, data-driven examples of particularly effective organizations, and a clear eye toward the future.”– “Civil Eats”

Katie S. Martin is the Executive Director of the Foodshare Institute for Hunger Research & Solutions. She is recognized as a thought leader on food security issues, and has presented her research at dozens of regional and national conferences.