Platform Changelog
Recent updates to Feed America's free public food-assistance directory. 23 surfaces shipped recently. For donors, journalists, and partners tracking momentum.
Corporate giving + matching gifts landing (/sponsors)
New page targeting corporate-giving program managers and CSR officers. Lists 8 matching-gift platforms (Benevity, YourCause, Bright Funds, etc.) where Feed America is searchable by EIN. 4-tier sponsorship pyramid ($25K-$250K+).
OpenAPI spec expansion: 11 new endpoints documented
AI agents (Custom GPTs, Claude Tools, Perplexity Actions) now discover /api/submissions, /atlas.json, /donate.json, /snapshot.json, /api/leaderboard.json, etc. via /api/openapi.json.
10 ready-to-write hunger story angles for journalists (/story-pitches)
Citation-ready story-pitch library with hooks, supporting data URLs, suggested experts, and follow-up sources. Each angle has a stable anchor URL.
Public security policy + RFC 9116 security.txt
Required for enterprise partner adoption. Auto-discovered by responsible-disclosure tooling. Safe-harbor commitment + acknowledgments program.
Footer expanded with 12 new surface links
Every SSR page now exposes Atlas / Research / Calendar / Glossary / Submit / Badges / Partner Leaderboard / Embed Catalog / JSON endpoints in the shared footer nav.
Federal food-assistance program calendar (/calendar)
12 calendar entries with stable anchor URLs covering SNAP issuance, school year (NSLP/SBP), SFSP summer meals, WIC recertification, TEFAP, CSFP, FMNP/SFMNP, D-SNAP, IRS deadlines, SNAP COLA. Schema.org Event JSON-LD per entry.
51 per-state FEMA disaster pages (/disasters/<state>)
Real-time FEMA disaster declarations + D-SNAP eligibility + nearest food assistance per state. Daily refresh from OpenFEMA. GovernmentService JSON-LD.
Embed catalog (/embed/catalog) for partner discovery
9 embeddable Feed America surfaces in one catalog: search widget, per-pantry card, verified badge, OG cards, JSON APIs, HSDS feed, WordPress plugin, MCP server.
Public pantry submission form (/submit + POST /api/submissions)
Crowdsourced missing-pantry submissions. Validates input, dedups by name+zip, rate-limits 5/hr per IP. Goes into a moderation queue.
Academic research landing (/research) with Dataset JSON-LD
Citation-ready dataset documentation for academic researchers, journalists, foundations. Eligible for Google Dataset Search indexing.
Per-pantry live-status embed widget (/embed/pantry/<id>)
Iframe-embeddable live-data card for partner pantries to embed on their own websites. Theme support, postMessage auto-resize, JSON API at /api/embed/pantry/<id>.json.
/snapshot.json AI-agent single-pull + /press/feed.json regression fix
Comprehensive snapshot endpoint saves AI clients 5-6 round-trips. Also fixed a routing regression in /press/feed.json from the per-state press release route.
/og/press/<state> + /og/atlas/<state> branded OG cards + /about.json
Per-state social-share cards with proper "PRESS RELEASE" / "ATLAS" framing. Machine-readable About endpoint pairing with /donate.json.
51 per-state press releases (/press/<state>)
NewsArticle JSON-LD on each. Press-release format with FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, founder quote, About boilerplate, citation block.
25-term DefinedTermSet glossary (/glossary)
Comprehensive food-assistance acronym dictionary with stable anchor URLs. SNAP, WIC, TEFAP, CSFP, NSLP, SBP, SFSP, FQHC, D-SNAP, HSDS, SDOH, etc.
/donate.json machine-readable donation metadata for AI agents
Single-pull JSON with org identity, 10 donation channels, sister entities, disambiguation, IRS verification. AI agents can answer "how do I donate to Feed America" without HTML scraping.
Partner-verified leaderboard (/partner/leaderboard) + /api/leaderboard.json
State-by-state ranking gamifies the claim flow. TX leads with 137 PV. JSON API for AI clients.
Hunger Atlas (/atlas + /atlas/<state>) + /atlas.json
52 new SSR pages — national overview + per-state stats with Dataset JSON-LD. Machine-readable companion at /atlas.json.
robots.txt: 14 new AI crawlers explicitly allowed
ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, meta-externalagent, YouBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot + more.
Per-resource Open Graph cards (/og/resource/<id>)
Every /resource/<id> social share now generates a custom 1200×630 SVG with pantry name + city + type. Industry benchmark: 3-5x social-share CTR vs. generic logo.
Verified Badge program (/badges + /badge/<id>.svg)
Embeddable trust badge for claimed pantries. SVG, 240×60 default, scales cleanly. Yelp Sticker / GuideStar Seal playbook applied to food-help.
Pantry-outreach email enrichment scraper
Unlocks Channel D (bulk email) for the pantry-claim outreach campaign. Concurrent web scraper with politeness throttle, scoring, and aggregator-domain skip.
Bilingual EN/ES LLM-search at /api/llm-search
Captures ~20% of Spanish food-help queries that previously hit English-only models. 3-tier Spanish detection (accented chars, strong signals, weak indicators).
Older updates
For platform-update history older than this list, see our public commit log on the production worker. Each shipped surface includes a corresponding entry in /sitemap.xml with a lastmod stamp.
What's next
Active development priorities (subject to change):
- Pantry-claim welcome email automation (operator onboarding flow)
- Per-county atlas extension
- Foundation-officer state-grant pipeline pages
- Volunteer matchmaker
For roadmap input or partnership opportunities: partners@feedam.org.
Last updated: 2026-04-29 · This page is regenerated on each deploy. Transparency · Methodology