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Food Finders Food Bank

Food Finders Food Bank. Food Finders works to minimize hunger in mid-north Indiana by locating excess and damaged food and nonfood items and redirecting these otherwise wasted items to nonprofit agencies that serve low-income Hoosiers.

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Food Finders Food Bank

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  1. Food Finders Food Bank Food Finders works to minimize hunger in mid-north Indiana by locating excess and damaged food and nonfood items and redirecting these otherwise wasted items to nonprofit agencies that serve low-income Hoosiers.

  2. Food Finders works with local, state and nation networks to bring the best food and supplies possible to those in need.

  3. Programs Food Distribution Backpack

  4. OUR SERVICE AREA Benton Carroll Cass Clinton Fountain Fulton Howard Jasper Miami Montgomery Pulaski Newton Warren Tippecanoe Tipton White

  5. THE NEED • 13.2% of all Americans now live in hungry and food-insecure households. • Of the 600,000 Hoosiers in need, nearly 20% are children who are not receiving sufficient food to remain healthy, grow and learn. • All Lafayette School Corporation elementary schools have more than 50% free and reduced eligible.

  6. Lafayette Backpack Programs

  7. Major Funders • Greater Lafayette Community Foundation • Alcoa Foundation • Lafayette Noon Rotary • Cargill, Inc • Lafayette Life Foundation • Old National Bank • Harrison Kiwanis • Various churches, groups and individuals

  8. Who do we help?

  9. CHILD HUNGER STRATEGY • How Great is the Need • · There are over 18 million children who receive free or reduced price meals through the National School Lunch Program and this number continues to grow. • · It is assumed that children in need are accessing multiple programs to help meet their food needs – resources must be available at the times when children need them most: in the summer, over weekends and school vacations, afterschool and at home.

  10. Strategy Development • · Over the course of 5 months, an interdepartmental team of Feeding America staff, Network members, and stakeholders met to develop a 5-year Child Hunger Strategy to address the gaps in service to children. • · This team assessed challenges, weighed potential solutions, and developed a set of recommendations for how to best serve children in need. • · The team recommended a shift in focus to addressing needs in 4 key time periods:

  11. Summer At Home Strategy Development Weekends and Vacations After School

  12. The Goal • By 2014, increase access to meals for children in need by 20% through integration and expansion of emergency and programmatic services.

  13. Be part of the solution Donate food, donate funds, donate time.

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