{"id":17358,"date":"2021-07-28T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/target\/combating-food-insecurity-with-googles-newest-search-tool\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T15:12:43","slug":"google-launches-new-tool-to-combat-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/google-launches-new-tool-to-combat-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Launches New Tool to Combat Food Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\r\n<p>&#8220;For the food insecure, finding a place to access free food options locally can be a challenge. But now thanks to Google and a trio of partners, getting food assistance will hopefully be easier than ever.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Find Food Support website (<a href=\"https:\/\/findfoodsupport.withgoogle.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findfoodsupport.withgoogle.com<\/a>) is designed to be a one-stop resource for those in need of food to quickly find and access the food services they need. At the core of the new resource is a locator tool built on Google Maps allowing users to search for the nearest food bank, food pantry or school lunch program pickup site. Using location listings and data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/meals4kids\">USDA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/find-free-meals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Kid Hungry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/foodfinder.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Finder<\/a>, the tool has 90,000 listings across all 50 states.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[&#8230;]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17419 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/food-veggies-pantry.jpg\" alt=\"food-veggies-pantry\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/food-veggies-pantry.jpg 640w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/food-veggies-pantry-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/426;\" \/><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For the food insecure, finding a place to access free food options locally can be a challenge. But now thanks to Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/google-launches-new-tool-to-combat-food-insecurity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":17359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,8,26,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17420,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358\/revisions\/17420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}