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Northshore October 2025
When the COVID pandemic upended the economy in 2020, food pantries and soup kitchens found themselves facing extraordinary surges in demand for their services. In Massachusetts, the number of households experiencing food insecurity rose from one in five in 2019, to one in three by 2021, according to the Greater Boston Food Bank. For the food insecurity organizations of the North Shore, this sudden growth in need offered major challenges. But it also drove them to expand, refine, and innovate their operations in ways that have made them stronger and more effective today as food insecurity continues at historically high levels. The Open D
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