Running a food bank is incredibly challenging work — financially, physically, emotionally — during even the best of times. And that’s because food banks are engaged in what is essentially impossible work.
Even when they’re operating at peak efficiency — and most do work miracles on shoestring budgets — food banks can only address a small fraction of the hunger problem that plagues our country. Like tiny sponges trying to soak up a river of need, food banks do remarkable and important work for thousands upon thousands of people, but in the end, there is only so much they can do with the limited resources they have.
And things have gotten much worse of late, just in time for the holidays…