Montgomery County Food Bank Inc

Programs: Montgomery county food bank (mcfb) collects, purchases and delivers food to a network of 36 food pantries located throughout a county that covers over 1,000 square miles. Mcfb works with an additional 16 community partners to furnish food through mobile pantries, safe houses, residential programs critical care centers, pet rescue agencies and emergency shelters. Member agencies are accountable for food received and distributed and must qualify as a charitable institution in accordance with texas laws. Montgomery country food bank provides the most cost-effective way for over 50 separate agencies to access the greatest variety of food and necessities in volume, enabling them to use more of their funds to provide additional services to their clients. This method of collaboration, along with mcfbs own programs (see below), allowed the food bank to collect and distribute 11,018,822 pounds of food, providing millions of nutritious meals to an average of 39,715 food-insecure children, adults and seniors each month during 2016. For each dollar donated, mcfb delivered 3. 5 nutritious meals. In its third location, the renovated 72,000-square-foot facility includes 60,000 square feet of warehouse space. Montgomery county food bank enjoys a strong base of community support. In 2016, over 4,000 community volunteers, a volunteer board of directors that includes a founding member, and 21 passionate employees operated the facility in addition to running six mcfb programs as follows: buddy backpack program: provides food-insecure children with nutritional food for the weekends and holidays in an inconspicuous backpack at school. In 2016, mcfb delivered 26,616 backpacks to students attending schools in montgomery county and conroe independent school district areas. Senior care and share: mcfb partners with meals on wheels and local senior living facilities to provide supplemental food on weekends to senior citizens who may struggle either financially or with mobility issues making it difficult for them to provide for themselves. In 2016, this program benefited 2,783 low-income individuals. Mobile and school pantries (combined): these programs seek to increase access points to food in areas that are unserved or underserved due to a lack of social service agencies and/or agency resources. Utilizing a refrigerated vehicle, fresh produce, bread/pastries, and a variety of meats were delivered to 8,532 individuals during 2016. Food fairs: mcfb collaborates with sponsoring organizations in high need areas not only by delivering fresh/perishable, frozen and canned grocery products, but also by providing technical and marketing assistance for each food fair. In 2016, the food bank distributed food to 40,663 individuals through food fairs. Benefit fairs: these educational and interactive outreach events are designed to serve people who are food and service insecure. Mcfb collaborated with 72 partners in 2016 that provided unemployment benefit services, medicare enrollment, health and dental screening, voter registration, snap enrollment, flu shots, educational assistance and pet care (spay/neuter and shots), benefiting 687 individuals. The total number of volunteer hours in 2016 was 32,454. 85.