MFBN's Public Policy Division works on an ongoing basis with legislators, government officials and the hunger-relief community to make ending hunger in Montana a priority. We help inform policy at the state and federal levels by providing data used for public policy reports and testimony to legislative bodies.

Our policy initiatives are instrumental in MFBN's ongoing efforts to raise public awareness and ignite legislative action around policy issues that affect food assistance programs and the people they serve. The Food Bank engages in research at the federal level in collaboration with America's Second Harvest, The Nation's Food Bank Network.

In addition to supporting access to government food assistance programs, MFBN supports long-term solutions to ending hunger. We encourage Montanans to make the hunger issue a priority and establish an ongoing dialogue with elected and community leaders about ways to end hunger in our communities.