Data and Decision Intelligence for food banks and hunger relief organizations.
Distribution records, community feedback, service availability, and operating costs each tell part of the story. Commonportion connects them all so you can see who was reached, what changed, and where you made the biggest impacts.
Bring community need, service locations, hours, and neighbor feedback into one access picture.
For neighbors, food access means making the trip, finding a time that works, and feeling welcome when they arrive. We connect neighbors’ experiences with your data so your team can design programs and services that feed your community and keep people feeling human.
Preparing your Service Area Assessment, shaping an Operational Response Plan, or ready to implement it? Turn the evidence into a prioritized distribution decision and a practical pilot.
By bringing community need, service availability and neighbor experience together we discover how your team can best uplift your community.
Start with the barriers your neighbors experience.
Increasing your reach can take more resources. Discover your cost per household and how different decisions affect your operating costs.
Now you can show leadership and funders the assumptions behind recommended investments.
Choose your own adventure
Make a food bank investment decision. See what changes with Commonportion.
01 / The situation
You lead Riverton Food Bank. Participation has stalled. Where should your next investment go?
Start with one decision your team needs to make. Agree on the scope, participation, timing and fee before the work begins.
We identify evidence gaps together; you do not need a perfect dataset to start.
At the review, decide what to implement and what ongoing support fits the work.
Get a free readiness report with strengths, evidence gaps, and three priorities to review.
Compare travel, opening hours and one community-reported barrier.
Illustrative rubric · not a benchmark
Illustrative score. Your report follows your answers.
Start with a defined engagement. Keep the support that helps your team make progress. Scope and pricing are agreed together.
For a team ready to improve one part of its distribution network.
Scoped with your teamOngoing partnership · custom pricingFor leaders aligning several programs, locations, or delivery channels.
Scoped with your teamOngoing partnership · custom pricingFor a network that needs ongoing analytical and implementation support.
Scoped with your teamOngoing partnership · custom pricing
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Food bank experience and a commitment to making data useful for all people.
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It is an ongoing consulting partnership. Maps, models, and decision briefs are working outputs we develop with your team. The illustrations show the kind of thinking and deliverables involved; they are not a software product you need to buy.
We can help organize evidence about community need, service access and neighbor experience, then compare responses and develop a pilot plan. Use the current guidance from your Feeding America network for SAA and Operational Response Plan requirements. We are an independent consultancy; the quiz does not replace your assessment. The same approach can support pantries and other food insecurity organizations.
Start with what you have: service locations and hours, program records, distribution volumes, community feedback, and available operating costs. The first engagement identifies what is reliable and what needs to be clarified before making decisions.
It assesses your reported practices across access, data, decisions, implementation, and cost visibility. The report explains its scoring and gives practical priorities. It does not benchmark your organization against other food banks or measure actual impact.
Yes. Financial analysis is tied to the distribution decision: cost-and-reach scenarios, assumptions, implementation resources, and the measures you plan to review. This gives your team material to inform a funder conversation.
Focus centers on one priority; Coordinate connects several programs or decisions; Embed adds an ongoing decision partner across your network. We agree on scope, cadence, deliverables, and pricing after understanding the work.
Use the 30-minute conversation to walk through your assessment, add context the quiz cannot capture, and discuss whether a scoped first engagement would help. You can book through Calendly and bring a printed or saved copy of your report.
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