A new study measures how hunger has increased in Marion County because of the COVID-19 crisis.

Grants are now available for local initiatives that connect Indianapolis residents with long-term food and nutrition resources.

The Indianapolis City-County Council's Community Affairs Committee will consider a proposal Wednesday night to create a commission to help families without regular access to food.

The Community Compass app, that helps people in Marion County find food assistance, is getting an update.

The Indiana National Guard deployed members to the state's 13 regional charitable food distribution sites around the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But their temporary, six-month deployment ends Sept. 30.

St. Vincent de Paul Boulevard Place Food Pantry will double the size of its building, at 42nd Street. It will also receive renovations. The pantry saw an estimated 30 percent increase in out-of-boundary shoppers during the COVID-19 crisis -- people living outside their typically serviced neighborhoods.

The state says people don't have to do anything to get the benefits; they should have received a new card in the mail or had them added to their existing food stamps card.

A group of Indianapolis nonprofits on Indianapolis' southside says the impact of the pandemic is still an issue for food insecurity in central Indiana.

Nine 13 Sports normally takes bicycles into learning environments to teach things like the importance of physical fitness. When school buildings closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it switched to food delivery.

According to Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration, about 600,000 children qualify for the pandemic-related benefit.