John van Hengel ✓
(1923–2005)
social reformer
United States
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John van Hengel (1923–2005) was a United States social reformer.
About John van Hengel
John Arnold van Hengel was a grassroots activist and entrepreneur credited as being the "Father of Food Banking". In 1967, van Hengel founded St. Mary's Food Bank, the world's first food bank in Phoenix, Arizona. He would later go on to create Feeding America, helping to spread the food banking concept across the United States, and eventually the rest of the world.
Notable works:
World Religions : a Canadian Catholic Perspective
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