Keeping the Focus on Hunger

Virtual food drives and donor breakfasts help food bank meet the growing demands

The December morning was damp and gray here when the Robin Hood Foundation held a special meeting in a ninth-floor conference room at its Manhattan offices. The principal speaker was Lucy Cabrera, president of the Food Bank for New York City, a charity that supplies more than 1,000 emergency feeding programs throughout the city.

About 30 or so past donors to the food bank and leaders of soup kitchens and food pantries served by the group had come in from the early morning rain to hear

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