Ohio Association Of Foodbanks

Programs: The ohio food prog. And agriculture clearance prog. Provides an extensive, nourishing selection of food to families and individuals who are eligible to receive food through ohios emergency food network. Through a statewide partnership, this prog. Recovers surplus and unmarketable agricultural products from more than 100 ohio producers to a network of 12 foodbanks to ensure that ohio families have a source of nourishing, ohio grown, and produced foods. The state of ohio, through the odjfs, provides funding to purchase these products. Further, this prog. Reduces and prevents waste by providing nutritious food to hungry people while simutaneously minimizing the financial loss ohio farmers face when product rots on their fields. This prog. Provided over 54m lbs. Of food to ohio foodbanks. Additionally, funding was provided through an e. O by governor john r. Kasich for the summer weekend meals prog. Which provided 100,000 backpacks to children at sfsp site across ohio.

the ohio benefit bank (obb) is an online service that helps ohioans access a wide variety of public work support benefits and tax credits. The obb connects low and moderate income ohioans to programs such as snap, medical benefits, voter registration, student pell grants, child care support, veterans support and heating assistance. Additionaly, obb provides income tax filing for ohioans with a household income of $60,000 or less. This program is operated in partnership with four federal agencies, the ohio department of job & family services, and eight other agencies. The ohio benefit bank aims to support ohioans to become economically stable and to maintain employment. The ohio benefit bank has more than 8,000 trained counselors at more than 1,000 local sites in all of ohios 88 counties, and to date, obb has helped ohioans access nealy $1. 75 billion in work support benefits and tax credits.

the ohio association of foodbanks partners with the corporation for national and community service to carry out national service programming including americorps vista, americorps state and americorps vista summer associates. Vista members perform a wide variety of activities depending on the program in which they participate. Some of these activities include supporting summer foood service program sites, foodbanks, and sites of the ohio benefit bank, and all vista contribute to capacity building at the organizations in which they are placed. To date, the ohio association of foodbanks has placed more than 1,000 national service members; those national service members have recruited 35,700 volunteers who have served more than 3. 3 million summer meals and raised $2. 9 million in cash and in-kind donations.