You recently received the single largest gift in the organization’s history, a $100 million contribution from the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. A combination of things gave rise to the question of whether that investment would be made through Feeding America. Something that Feeding America did at the beginning of this pandemic was we created our Covid-19 fund. Most of my siblings who joined my family throughout the course of my childhood came into our family having been malnourished. So I witnessed firsthand the devastating implications of a lack of access to a nutritious mix of food on a child.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2020 12:56 UTC