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Brian Greene President/CEO. First and Foremost…. Thank you! For your commitment For your patience. A Map Of America's Future: Where Growth Will Be Over The Next Decade. By 2023, Houston will be widely acknowledged as America’s next great global city. Some Are Left Behind.
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Brian Greene President/CEO
First and Foremost… Thank you! For your commitment For your patience
A Map Of America's Future: Where Growth Will Be Over The Next Decade By 2023, Houston will be widely acknowledged as America’s next great global city.
Some Are Left Behind Texas food insecurity up 1% Now 18.4% 1 in 4 children are food insecure 66,000 people are hungryon a typical day
Thanks To You… 137,000 people are fed weekly New data in early 2014 from the Hunger Study 875 clients interviewed90 agency locations
Mission Leading the fight against hunger
Vision Food access for all
Strategic Goals 1. Quantity 2. Capacity and efficiency 3. Social services 4. Child hunger 5. Customer service
Allocation Priorities 1. More nutritious food 2. More food per person 3. Client choice 4. Evening, weekend hours 5. Link to social services 6. Provide social services
Allocation for Change Board committee Use food to help break the cycle of poverty by adding social services to food distribution
Agency Assessments Tier system Evaluate agencies based on allocation priorities Determine who gets additional food based on social service provision
Measurement System Based on estimated dollar value of outcomes e.g., the amount of money clients save by receiving free food that can be used to buy other necessities
Creative Partnerships New Including non-traditional agencies Existing Brighter Bites SER Jobs for Progress
Client Choice Pantry Partners Pantries + high impact programs e.g., Project Grad Encourage existing partners to transition
Collaborative Partnerships Regional collaboratives with specific focus areas e.g., job readiness, housing
Strategic Goal One Distribute 100M nutritious meals and 2.48M pounds non-food items annually by 2018. 64M in FY13 FY14 Goal: 69.7M
What’s Nutritious? YES! NO!
Nutritious Meals ÷ 1.2 + SNAP meal equivalents
SNAP Meal Equivalents Factors Approval rate (70.3%) Avg benefit ($297/application) Avg certification period (9.5 mos.) Local economic impact ($1 = $1.79)
Non-Food 1.8M lbs FY13 FY 14 goal: xx lbs
Terence Franklin Director, Agency Services
Strategic Goal Two Build agency capacity and efficiency • Larger quantities nutritious foods • More meals per person • Client choice • Open evenings, weekends
Guidelines for New Agencies Pantries Open 3 times per month Once during evenings or weekends Once with social services
Guidelines for New Agencies Mobile Units Only With social services
Build Your Capacity Mobiles and social services e.g., health insurance sign-up
Infrastructure Grants Year Three Applications available early October Reach-in or walk-in freezers, coolers Award letters early 2014
Retail Pick-up 242 stores
Red Barrel Nearly 70 agency partners
Client Choice Emergency Food Pantry For working families