"USDA eliminates two local food programs that help the NH Food Bank and local schools"

"Two weeks into Elsy Cipriani’s new job as executive director of the New Hampshire Food Bank, onboarding has not been easy. 

Earlier this month, the food bank lost nearly $1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement, which is designed to help food banks buy fresh foods from local growers. The program was, until now, administered locally through New Hampshire Feeding New Hampshire, and its untimely end cancels $420 million in funding for food banks nationwide.

In her 20 years of nonprofit work, most recently as the director of New Generation, an emergency shelter for women and children facing housing insecurity in the Seacoast, Cipriani said she has never seen such an abrupt change." Read more