REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC
1116 Edgewood Avenue North, Jacksonville, FL 322542393 www.feedingnefl.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Feeding Northeast Florida's mission, through the distribution of food and other essential goods, promotion of healthy living, and advocacy for the well-being of those struggling with hunger, is to address social and health care issues, to educate the community about food insecurity, and to collect relevant data to improve the welfare of our community.

General Food Distribution & Pack Programs: As N.E. Florida's regional food bank, Feeding Northeast Florida collects, stocks, processes and distributes food donated from local and national food industry donors, local farms/cooperatives, community food drives and local gleaning events. We also purchase nutritious food and produce to build warehouse inventory and provide greater selection to our nonprofit agency partners, who receive food from us either without, or at greatly reduced, cost. Our "Pack" programs build both general and customized healthy food packs tailored to meet the nutritious needs and preferences of groups ranging from Title 1 elementary school students to individual adults, families, homebound seniors, military veterans, or Holocaust survivors. Our weekend Snack Pack Program feeds the many children within our service area whose only reliable weekday food source is the free or reduced breakfast or lunch that their household income qualifies them to receive weekdays at school. Designed to help carry them through the weekend, SnackPacks include kid-friendly foods that are nutritious and easy to eat. Brought home on Fridays, these packs help children bridge the weekend meal gap that otherwise might see them eating only one or two meals a day, leaving them hungry, weak and unable to focus on their work when returning to school. For the many adults, seniors and families struggling with hunger, our Nutrition Pack Program can be customized to feed groups with specific dietary or kosher needs. The packs generally contain healthy dry goods, fresh produce, and other pantry staples that can help food-insecure people meet their daily nutritional needs. Regardless of their financial hardships, the availablity of our healthy Nutrition Packs can help ease the difficult financial challenges many face when they have to choose between paying for medicine, utilities, transportation or food.

Grocery Retail Program: This food rescue program fosters collaboration between our team and our designated partner agencies to pick up nutritious perishable and non-perishable food products from over 200 participating retail grocery stores, supermarket chains, and big box "membership" stores throughout northeast Florida. Inspecting the food for quality and safety, approved products are then distributed either at no-cost, or very minimal cost, to more than 160 food pantries, schools, and feeding sites across our 8-county service area. The Grocery Retail Donation Program Manager has developed a comprehensive, multi-county logistics plan that encompasses time saving routes, trained drivers, trained partner agencies and participating retailers.

Food Desert Mobile Pantries and Satellite Food Distribution Centers: A single Mobile Pantry is capable of delivering 8,000-10,000 pounds of dairy, deli, bakery, meat & locally-grown produce to a hosting site or agency location serving hungry people in need, where it is then distributed by trained, compassionate partners and volunteers. Satellite Food Distribution Centers expand our site-based distributions, moving from a centralized warehouse facility to food distribution sites located in the counties we serve. This model brings a refrigerated truckload of food to a safe, accessible location, and puts food in the hands of our trained partner agencies, eliminating costly travel and food exposure time that the agencies would otherwise have traveling to our warehouse and back to their separate pantry locations. Averaging some 35-40 mobile pantries per month, the process is a smart, respectful, and cost effective way to reduce spoilage, waste, time, and funds.

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