Every day in the Free State, 120-thousand people who might otherwise be hungry get a meal through the Maryland Food Bank. The nonprofit has been distributing food for 45 years— it was the first food bank on the East Coast — and a lot has changed. These days it’s serving more working families, children and older adults. It’s paying more attention to nutrition, distributing millions of pounds of fresh produce. And beyond distributing food, the Maryland Food Bank works to fix what puts people at risk for hunger. The root causes.
Many of these changes have come under the leadership of Carmen Del Guercio, who has been President & CEO of the Maryland Food Bank for eight years. He’s stepping down at the end of this month, so we talked with him about what’s improved as well as the challenges ahead.
