The Good Food Box is really interesting. It's usually through housing or workplace groups. It draws on social marketing, marketing techniques to educate people to empower them rather than to manipulate them. The main person is Mary Lou Morgan, who is a brilliant marketer. The Canadian Auto Workers donated a truck with a beautiful logo on the side.
People come to volunteer to pack it.
At first the City subsidized the non-food costs, but no more. Food Share has to write a lot of grants, even with all the individual donors and volunteers. The cost of food is recovered by the payment for the food. The timing is now twice a month, and they are up to 4000 boxes. You pay at the beginning of the month and towards the end of the month you get a beautiful basket of fresh fruit and vegetables, about the time that welfare checks would be running out and people would be either going to food banks or to fast food.