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Causes: Food, Food Programs
Mission: To reduce the incidence of hunger and its detrimental effects upon individuals, families, the community and the region. In addition to providing hunger relief, we have developed programs designed to alleviate the causes of hunger.
Programs: Food rescue: conducted a food rescue program in collaboration with local supermarkets, retail vendors, and community members which provided 175,794 lbs of food available for distribution. Our goal was to provide quality, nutritious food to the community members we serve, by providing fresh produce and dairy items every week.
emergency food distribution: project mana provided food to 2,086 individuals (896 households) through our four weekly emergency food distributions and face program. Of those people served, 66 home-bound community members received weekly food delivery through our food and companionship exchange program or face, and nearly 625 children and 254 seniors living in our community received nutritious food, and 274 families received a delicious turkey and all of the fixings for thanksgiving through our let's talk turkey program. The average number of meals distributed annually was approximately 193,633 meals. .
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.