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Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries
Mission: To provide food and quality services to increase the capacity of kentucky's feeding america food banks to end hunger through advocacy, increased public awareness and resource development.
Programs: The farms to food banks program increases access to healthy food amongstruggling kentuckians while increasing cash flow for kentucky farmersthrough the provision of a new market for surplus and no. 2-gradefruits and vegetables. During the 2016 growing season 3,111,000 pounds of fresh produce from 385 kentucky farmers was distributed to struggling individuals in all 120 kentucky counties. This represented 5. 2 million meals supplemented with 28 types of fruits and vegetables.