Food Security Impact Drive

Building Better Responses to Food Security Challenges

We’re exploring the questions, opportunities, and emerging needs shaping the future of food security. That means gathering community insight, research, and collaborative design into a shared body of knowledge that helps practitioners and organizations understand where solutions are needed most.

That shared body of knowledge is the Food Security Impact Drive. We invite you to use and contribute to it to build community-driven solutions that address real challenges to feeding our neighbors.

Food security work in the community

Two ways to engage

Do you or your nonprofit work in food security?

Explore the questions, personas, and design ideas gathered so far. Let us know if they capture your challenges and if the solutions designed by your peers address them.

Start here

Are you a developer wanting to build a solution?

The repository has personas, use cases, and design artifacts. Everything you need to start building.

GitHub repo

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What Questions Are We Trying to Answer?

Food security challenges are complex and interconnected. These questions were gathered through design, research, and community engagement, and represent the problems we’re actively exploring to understand and address.

Get Involved

The Generate + Design Event Philadelphia May 19–20, 2026

Two ideas that took shape in Philadelphia

In May 2026 at Esri’s offices in greater Philadelphia, professionals working in food security came together to collaboratively design technology solutions to address the problems they face. Teams with representatives from food banks, food pantries, and local government sketched out two designs: Food Source and Personal Pantry. Descriptions of these designs and the associated artifacts from the two-day design thinking event are the focus of the Food Security Impact Drive.

See the whiteboard from the session
Participants collaborating at the Generate and Design workshop in Philadelphia.

This Generate and Design session is funded by Esri. Learn more about how Esri works with nonprofits

Help Shape This Work

We’re looking for researchers, developers, nonprofits, and practitioners ready to contribute expertise, validate emerging ideas, or share challenges from their communities.