In place of Summer EBT, which put $40 per month on a family's SNAP or EBT card, Iowa's pilot program provides a pre-packaged ...

Food pantries across Iowa are taking part in the Healthy Kids Iowa pilot, which gives $40 worth of food monthly to 65,000 ...

Iowa’s largest provider of food for the needy has a new leader. Tammi Nielsen took over this week as the CEO of the Des Moines-based Food Bank of Iowa, which serves 55 of the state’s 99 counties.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ summer food program for children that is meant to replace Summer EBT got off to a rocky start this month, according to food bank and pantry officials tasked with ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Iowa is launching a new state-run summer lunch program called Healthy Kids Iowa, aimed at keeping students fed during the break from school. In August 2024, Gov. Kim Reynolds ...

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - The Agriculture Department’s decision to halt half a billion dollars in deliveries to food banks across the country is now being felt in Eastern Iowa.

Recently, the Food Bank of Iowa was set to receive 16 truckloads, or 400,000 pounds, of food. After the federal funding cuts, those truckloads were canceled.

Hundreds of Iowa farmers, schools and food banks planned on federal dollars this year to support local food purchases. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut both programs in March.

Apart from the families served at the pantry, the food bank provides meals to Northeast Iowa residents in 16 counties. In 2024, this included 942,000 meals at 14 mobile food pantries; 45,000 meals ...

A January poll conducted by the Iowa Food Bank Association found strong public support for SNAP in its current form, with 68% of Iowans in favor, including 50% of respondents who identify as ...