Peter Bronez

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Abstract of https://conference.nber.org/confer/2015/MDf15/Prendergast.pdf Food banks throughout the U.S. provide nutrition to the needy. Yet the food that is distributed through food banks often originates with donors - large manufacturers or distributors - far from those needy clients. How that food is distributed to food banks across the country is the subject of this essay. An informal description is given of an innovation introduced in 2005 by Feeding America (at the time the organization was called America’s Second Harvest) that would better allow food bank preferences to be reflected in their allo- cations. Specifically, Feeding America transitioned from the centralized allo- cation process, where they would make decisions based on their perception of food bank need, to one where local affiliates would bid for food items. To do so, Feeding America constructed a specialized constructed currency called “shares” that are used to bid on loads of donated food. The process by which this change came about, its necessary idiosyncrasies, and its outcomes are described.
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Photograph of a tabletop wargame set in World War II. An enemy tank appears around a tree up the road while friendly infantry huddles behind wooden fences
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