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Nate Feltman: Food insecurity is a solvable problem

March 7, 2025 | Nate Feltman

The hunger challenge among our youth and the associated health consequences affect academic performance and achievement, leading to tremendous societal costs.

Marc Hackett: You can help ease the troubles from food insecurity

January 19, 2024 | Marc Hackett

Twenty-five percent of Marion County residents are food-insecure and struggle to put food on their table, which can mean choosing between food and utilities, food and transportation, or food and medical care.

Nate Feltman: We must address root causes of food insecurity

November 24, 2023 | Nate Feltman

This holiday season, consider volunteering or contributing to an organization that is working to help those who need a helping hand and a bridge to food and economic security.

Pacers, Colts team with city on Drive & Dish initiative to reduce food insecurity

November 16, 2023 | Taylor Wooten

The new program aimed at several city neighborhoods has a $530,000 fund, which includes donations from Carlisle, Pacers minority owner Steve Simon, Pacers Sports & Entertainment, and the Indianapolis Colts.

Hunger and health panel highlights creative solutions to food insecurity

October 31, 2022 | Taylor Wooten

At a forum Monday morning, much of the conversation involved partnerships between localities, not-for-profits, and health systems and their efforts to offer resources and solutions.

Vlad Bora and Linda Broadfoot: Rising prices are increasing food insecurity—again

August 5, 2022 | Vlad Bora and Linda Broadfoot

Food impacts every part of our health. If children and adults don’t have consistent access, they can’t concentrate, learn or work, and their bodies can’t grow properly.

High-profile coalition is taking aim at food insecurity

November 6, 2020 | John Russell

A group of prominent corporate, not-for-profit and government organizations is launching perhaps the most ambitious food-relief and sustainability program here in years.

Council easily passes mayor’s $580K strategy to fight food insecurity

July 16, 2019 | IBJ Staff

The Indianapolis City-County Council on Monday voted 20-4 to approve Mayor Joe Hogsett’s plan to “test strategies” to combat food insecurity in Indianapolis.

Merritt calls Hogsett’s food insecurity plan ‘complete waste of money’

July 12, 2019

Republican mayoral candidate state Sen. Jim Merritt on Thursday criticized Mayor Joe Hogsett’s plan to spend about $580,000 on programs to combat food insecurity in Indianapolis and said it “will likely make the problem worse.”

Council panel OKs $580K in programs to confront local food insecurity

June 6, 2019

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s new initiatives to combat food insecurity were advanced by a vote at an Indianapolis City-County Council committee Wednesday. The overall plan involves spending $580,000 on four programs.

Hogsett pledges 25-year plan to fight food insecurity, hunger in Indianapolis

May 30, 2019

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett outlined plans to tackle food insecurity in his state of the city address, stating that he would soon submit to the Indianapolis City-County Council a “significant investment for programming.”

GREG MORRIS: Gleaners leads fight against food insecurity

May 8, 2019

Your help is needed in the battle against hunger, a problem that observes no boundaries.

GREG MORRIS: A continuing fight against food insecurity

October 17, 2018

Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana and IBJ partnered this month to share the urgency of hunger and its many side effects.

Hunger, food insecurity continue to vex Indiana residents

October 10, 2018

In Indiana, one million people face food insecurity, and in Indianapolis the number is approaching nearly 175,000—or more than 18 percent of the population.

Q&A: Fishers firm uses plants in pods to battle food insecurity

August 16, 2018

Jonathan Partlow is founder of Fishers-based ag-tech company Aggressively Organic, a company focused on ending food insecurity by innovating agricultural practices.

Food insecurity, hunger vex large swath of Indianapolis residents

October 20, 2017

Nearly 175,000 food-insecure people live in the city. About 47,000 of them are children, whose ability to learn and thrive can be hampered, according to panelists at a local hunger summit on Friday.

City-County Council plan would fight food access, insecurity issues

December 4, 2020 | Samm Quinn

Proposal 337 could move the needle forward on food insecurity and access problems by creating a structure that brings together and guides stakeholders already working on solutions.

Indianapolis mayoral candidates compete over food-insecurity plans

June 20, 2019

Jim Merritt on Thursday proposed his own initiatives to tackle the issue of food insecurity in Indianapolis, and he criticized those recently made by Mayor Joe Hogsett as “Band-Aid” solutions.

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