The Neighborhood Food Champion program is an opportunity to address food security in Indianapolis.

Planning has been underway for the Mozel Sanders Foundation's annual Thanksgiving Day meal this week. Volunteers will feed thousands of people around Indianapolis.

More than 200 food pantries, distribution sites or meal programs are set up across Marion County any given week, and all reported a spike in need this year.

A new study measures how hunger has increased in Marion County because of the COVID-19 crisis.

Grants are now available for local initiatives that connect Indianapolis residents with long-term food and nutrition resources.

The Indianapolis City-County Council's Community Affairs Committee will consider a proposal Wednesday night to create a commission to help families without regular access to food.

The Community Compass app, that helps people in Marion County find food assistance, is getting an update.

The Indiana National Guard deployed members to the state's 13 regional charitable food distribution sites around the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But their temporary, six-month deployment ends Sept. 30.

St. Vincent de Paul Boulevard Place Food Pantry will double the size of its building, at 42nd Street. It will also receive renovations. The pantry saw an estimated 30 percent increase in out-of-boundary shoppers during the COVID-19 crisis -- people living outside their typically serviced neighborhoods.

The state says people don't have to do anything to get the benefits; they should have received a new card in the mail or had them added to their existing food stamps card.