Following are highlights of media coverage concerning the Food Bank’s ongoing work to end food poverty throughout the five boroughs. Included here are feature stories, Letters to the Editor, Op-Ed pieces and television, radio and Web coverage

For more information, including copies of available articles, please contact Carol Schneider, Associate Director, Media Relations.

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DECEMBER

• Food Banks Prepare for Unemployed. CNN, 12/29/2013
• New Yorkers of the Year: Food Bank For NYC Takes Fresh Approach as Demand Grows. NY1, 12/27/2013
• Longer Lines at New York Food Banks. CNN, 12/23/2013
• Up Close with Diana Williams. WABC-TV New York, 12/15/2013
• Bright Ideas: These Savings will Fund Community Health Centers. 12/15/2013
• 13 Celebrities on the Charities Closest to Their Hearts. Oprah.com, 12/2013
• Feeding New Yorkers With Maximum Efficiency. Wall Street Journal, 12/13/2013
• Kyra Sedgwick Burns Calories for a Good Cause by Hosting Flywheel’s Holiday Ride. RYOT News, 12/12/2013
• New York Viewpoint: Toyota and Food Bank For NYC. WABC-TV New York, 12/11/2013
• How to Give Back By Tweeting, Shopping & Celebrating. Gotham Magazine, 12/11/2013
• The War on the Poor – All In with Chris Hayes. MSNBC, 12/10/2013
• 5 Reasons Cash, Not Cans, Helps the Hungry. Care2.com, 12/4/2013
• Bank of America and Bryant Park Support New York Families in Need Through Cherished Holiday Event. EIN News, 12/2/2013
• Another Reason Charity is Good for Your Health. Huffington Post, 12/2/2013

NOVEMBER

• Finding Comfort and Food on Lines. (Featuring photos from around Food Bank’s member network by Joey O’Laughlin) The New York Times, 11/27/2013
• Demand as much as doubles at NY food pantries. Crain’s New York Business, 11/27/2013
• Kevin Bacon Joins Celebrity Chefs at Thanksgiving Food Bank. Food World News, 11/27/2013
• A Warm Meal, a Helping Hand. Manhattan Times, 11/27/2013
• Rich Homie Quan Serves Thanksgiving Dinner At NYC Food Bank. HiphopWired.com, 11/27/2013
• Food Stamp Cuts, Holidays Stress Food Banks. USA Today, 11/26/2013
• Lots of Turkey, Food Giveaways this Thanksgiving in New York City. Metro.us, 11/26/2013
• Ed Reed ready to face Mike Wallace when NY Jets take on Dolphins: Reed spoke while helping to give out food in West Harlem with Food Bank for New York City. NY Daily News, 11/26/2013
• Brooklyn Pantry Struggling to Help Fill Gap Left by Federal Cuts to Food Stamps. The New York Times, 11/25/2013
• Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Prepare 1,000 ‘Thanksgiving To-Go Meals’. People.com, 11/25/2013
• Vanities, and Hungry New Yorkers. The New York Times, 11/21/2013
• The Math of Thanksgiving on Food Stamps. US News and World Report, 11/21/2013
• Toyota Gears Up Efficiency at Soup Kitchen. NBC Nightly News, 11/13/2013
• NYC Food Bank Head: 40% of Veterans Need Food Assistance. WCBS New York, 11/10/2013
• New Yorkers Must Join Forces with Mayor-Elect de Blasio to Stamp Out Hunger and Poverty in the City. NY Daily News, 11/10/2013
• Hunger Grows in a Snap. NYCity NewsService, 11/9/2013
• Cut to Food Stamp Benefits Hitting New Yorkers. WCBS New York, 11/8/2013
• 47M Americans Hit by Food Stamp Cuts Starting Today. USA Today, 11/4/2013
• City Educators Get Lesson in Healthy Eating. NY1, 11/2/2013
• Slashing the Food Stamps Program. The New York Times, 11/1/2013
• The Austerity Agenda Strikes Again. All In with Chris Hayes, MSNBC, 11/1/2013
• Hunger Cliff. WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, 11/1/2013
• US Emergency Food Providers Brace as $5bn Food Stamp Cuts Set in. The Guardian, 11/1/2013
• Food Stamp Recipients See Cuts. CNN, 11/1/2013
• ‘Our Members are Panicking’: Families Brace as Billions in Food Stamp Cuts Kick in. NBCNews.com, 11/1/2013

OCTOBER

• 47M+ Brace for Food Stamp Program Cuts. CNN, 10/31/2013
• Food Stamp Cuts’ $10B Effect Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story. CNBC, 10/31/2013
• New Yorkers Brace to Lose $36 in Food Stamps Each Month. NY Daily News, 10/31/2013
• Millions on Food Stamps Facing Benefits Cuts. CBSNews.com, 10/31/2013
• America’s New Hunger Crisis. MSNBC, 10/30/2013 (See also: One Family, Trying to Keep Food on the Table.)
• Food Stamp Cuts will Swamp Food-Relief Programs. Crain’s NY Business, 10/30/2013
• The Poor Take Another Hit. MSNBC, 10/30/2013
• “Riots Always Begin Typically the Same Way”: Food Stamp Shutdown Looms Friday. Salon.com, 10/28/2013
• Fresh Cuts in the Food Stamp Program will Make Life Worse for New York’s Hungry. NY Daily News, 10/27/2013
• In Boehner’s backyard: A ‘perfect storm’ for hunger. MSNBC, 10/8/2013
• Mobile Couch: Gourmet Rice Krispy Treats From Treat House On UWS. CBS New York, 10/1/2013

SEPTEMBER

• Time Short, House Says It Seeks a New Farm Bill. The New York Times, 9/24/2013
• NYC Dumpling Festival and 10th Annual Dumpling Eating Contest Announced. BoweryBoogie.com, 9/23/2013
• House Republicans’ vote to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program was ‘heartless’. NY Daily News, 9/22/2013
• Census Shows NYC’s Median Household Income At $50,895. Yeshiva World News, 9/22/2013
• The real outrage. Idaho Mountain Express, 9/20/2013
• Census shows NYC poverty rate up, inequality high. The Wall Street Journal, 9/19/2013
• Food Bank: Go Orange. Super Chef, 9/19/2012
• Anti-Hunger Advocates Put Pressure on Lawmakers Over Food Stamp Bill. The New York Times, 9/18/2013
• Charities Decry Food-Stamps Cuts as House Vote Looms. The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 9/16/2013
• The Difference Between the Numbers and the Effects of Cutting Food Stamp Funding. Atlantic Wire, 9/16/2013
• Get Involved: Fight Hunger in NYC. amNew York, 9/11/2013
• The squeeze: House GOP might double food stamp cuts. MSNBC, 9/10/2013

JULY

• In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity. The New York Times, 7/26/2013
• Cronuts Fighting Hunger? Creator Dominique Ansel Wants To Use Success To Give Back. Huffington Post, 7/10/2013
• The ‘Change One Thing Truck,’ filled with healthy snack choices, will be on Staten Island on Friday. SI Live, 7/10/2013
• Food Bank For NYC takes healthy eating on the road. Brooklyn Spectator, 7/9/2013
• Flavor Factory (OddFellows Ice Cream Co. donates 5¢ of every serving to Food Bank). Brooklyn Daily, 7/2/2013

JUNE

• Food Bank Fights Food Stamp Cuts. Crain’s NY Business, 6/12/2013

MAY

• Scott Stanford talks to President and CEO of Food Bank for New York City Margarette Purvis about the latest cut backs on food stamps and what this means for our community. NBC New York, 5/17/2013
• Food Bank for NYC Raises $2 Million at “Can Do” Awards Dinner, New York Nonprofit Press, 5/2/2013
• Food Bank for New York City’s 30th Anniversary Can Do Awards, Lifeminute.tv, 5/2/2013
• Last Night’s Parties, Guestofaguest.com, 5/2/2013
• Jon Bon Jovi Performs At The Food Bank For NYC’s Can Do Awards!!, Perezhilton.com, 5/2/2013
• What We’re Reading, New York Times Diner’s Journal, 5/2/2013
• Jon Bon Jovi Rocks Food Bank For New York City’s Can Do Awards, LooktotheStars.org, 5/2/2013
• Chelsea Clinton Owes Everything to Mario Batali, Grub Street New York, 5/2/2013
• Bill and Hillary Clinton met Chelsea’s husband at Mario Batali’s Babbo, New York Post, 5/2/2013
• Mario Batali and Mariska Hartigay at the 30th Annual Can Do Awards, InStyle, 5/1/2013
• Food Bank Gala with Bon Jovi Raises $2 Million, Wall Street Journal Blogs, 5/1/2013

APRIL

• Model Selita Ebanks Reveals her Tough Childhood, ABC News Blogs, 4/30/2013
• Fortifying the Food Bank for NYC, Crain’s New York Business, 4/28/2013
• Albor Ruiz: The city’s hunger crisis stands to worsen as funding cuts to the food stamp program loom, NY Daily News, 4/28/2013

FEBRUARY

• Hunger In New York: One City, Two Realities, Amsterdam News, 2/7/2013

JANUARY

• 1 in 3 New Yorkers Having a Harder Time Affording Food, amNY, 1/15/2013
• Hunger a Growing Problem for Some New Yorkers, Crain’s New York Business, 1/15/2013
• Many Low Income New Yorkers Are Being Confronted with Starvation, Examiner, 1/15/2013
• NYC Hunger Experience 2012: One City, Two Realities. New York Nonprofit Press, 1/15/2013
• The Food Bank Releases a Report Showing the Struggle Many People Have to Afford Food, WBAI, 1/15/2013
• City Food Banks Still Recovering From Sandy, The Wall Street Journal, 1/15/2013
• The Growing Gap Between Low-income New Yorkers and City’s More Prosperous Residents is Forcing Many to Skimp on Food, NY Daily News, 1/16/2013
• New York City Food Banks Still Recovering From Superstorm Sandy, Philanthropy News Digest, 1/27/2013