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A Letter from Feeding Tampa Bay Executive Director and Board Chair It’s been another year of significant growth for Feeding Tampa Bay, and our progress has resulted in serving our community in more ways – a standard we continually strive for.
Thomas Mantz Executive Director
It would be impossible for us to discuss the fiscal We’d like to Four years ago we year without recalling our efforts to support close with an started the Hunger Hurricane Irma. Now a year past the storm – though example of Ac t i o n A l l i a n ce only a few months past relief efforts as we know how we see with USF and other the wake of devastating storms cause months our work leading partners in of rebuilding – we recollect its effects and our moving ahead. the community. Our response. It was a defining moment for our mission goal: to create better and offered us, and the community, a really good research and education processes understanding of the size, scope and capability of that leads to transformation for Todd Wickner Board Chair Feeding Tampa Bay. During the storm we deployed those we serve. We’ve deployed more than 100 additional tractor trailer loads of many studies but one in particular food, ensuring our ten-county service area had the suggests why this model is so important. One of vital resources it needed. To accomplish this we our first case studies was to analyze our Backpack were gratified to have the support of so many great Program – a program that delivers bags of food organizations in our community. They helped us to children on Friday’s to address hunger over rent more trucks and warehouse space, hire temp the weekends. There were several key findings, workers and add other resources one of which was that most of It’s this type of thinking to support the effort. From our the food taken home by children and innovation we believe perspective we were proud of our was being eaten by the entire will carry us into the future – staff, our partners and our board, family. Knowing this, we changed a future that is healthier all of whom rallied to the cause. our model to include more family for all we serve. oriented items. Still, we studied For the second year in a row we also expanded our more, which led us to conclude that a better way service model as we sought to better respond to to deliver food to children and families was to open the challenges in our community. We increased the pantries right on school campuses. Instead of a distribution of meals in both our children and senior child carrying a backpack home, the family could programs, our fresh produce deliveries rose by more stop by the school pantry (really a store) and take than 15%, and our benefits connections programs home items they need. Thanks to Hillsborough (i.e. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program County Public Schools and Publix Super Markets (SNAP)) helped deliver additional resources that Charities for helping us get started, by the end increased household capability for those we serve. of 2018 we’ll have 10 more Feeding Minds School If we can help close the gap between income and Pantries open and operating. expenses in a family, we’ve created a more stable situation – and taken someone out of a food line.
Total Pounds Procured 62,388,901 lbs
Manufacturers/Processors 3,626,002 lbs Miscellaneous 4,284,055 lbs Total Produce 6,000,018 lbs 3,437,540 lbs From Local Sources
2,562,478 lbs From Feeding Florida
Retail/Wholesale 27,775,565 lbs
Feeding Tampa Bay Foods to Encourage Foods to Encourage is Feeding America’s approach to estimate the nutritional value of food within each food bank in the network.
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2017/2018 Food Donors 5 Million LBS.+ Publix Supermarkets Walmart 1 Million - 4,999,999 LBS. Gordon’s Food Service Sam’s Clubs Sunset Growers US Foods Winn-Dixie (Southeastern Grocers) 300,000 - 999,999 LBS. Bimbo Bakeries C&S Wholesale Grocers Costco Inmar/McClane & CVS Carolina Logistics JGL Produce Pennrose Farms RMS Southeast Farms Sprouts Target Trader Joe’s Tropicana
Food Waste/ Food Recycler
100,000 - 299,999 LBS. Aldi Amazon BJ’s Wholesale Cooseman Produce L&M Farms Fresh Point Generation Farms Jones Potatoes Kellogg Perdue Performance Food Services Riviana Sanwa Produce Save-A-Lot Tomato Thyme Townsend Farms Voyager Farms Whole Foods
Feeding Tampa Bay is the largest food rescuer in West Central Florida
In the United States, 72 billion pounds of food are wasted every year. Perfectly edible food is disposed of while others struggle to put food on their tables. To combat food waste, the Feeding America network of food banks collects excess food from manufacturers, rescues products nearing use-by dates from retail stores, and gathers imperfect fruits and vegetables from local farmers. As part of this network, Feeding Tampa Bay is the largest food rescuer in West Central Florida, keeping more than 62 million pounds of good food out of landfills and placing it on the tables of those in need of a meal.
Meet Terri “Most people tend to focus on what they don’t have, while there are endless opportunities waiting for us just around the corner.” – wise words from our friend, Terri. This Philadelphia native believes that tapping into community resources and programs can offer the ability to regain footing in your life after suffering a serious setback. After the tragic loss of both of her parents, Terri moved to Florida to reinvent her life and find a new “normal.” Her curious mind and nurturing nature have set her up for a new path. With a Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Masters in Theological Seminary under her belt, Terri has decided to pursue her Doctorate in Ministry. Her knowledge, combined with her passion and life experience, has prepared Terri for her new career path – a life coach for individuals facing difficult times. Terri began visiting the Woodland Church Pantry in Bradenton, FL as a means to an end, but now volunteers in hopes of spreading more warmth and generosity into the community.
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à Donated Food/ Household Items: $85,010,589 à Contributions: $ 4,587,369 à Government Contracts: $ 1,502,589 à Shared Maintenance: $ 668,292 à Premier Product Program: $ 495,575 à Programs (grants): $ 407,260 à Special Events: $ 294,428 à Assets: $ 233,425 à Other Income: $ 96,776
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à Food Distribution Programs: $91,680,974 à Fundraising: $ 741,486 à Management and General: $ 368,707
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Three years after receiving food assistance, Henry became a regular volunteer at his pantry. On the days he felt the most defeated, he found hope in this place that was previously unfamiliar. He learned to ask for help and discovered that his battles were normal and experienced by everyday people, every day. He remained loyal to his faith and never forgot the kindness demonstrated to him by the members at his food pantry. His efforts to alter his life course caught the attention of pantry director, Pastor Clayton. Nearly one year ago, Henry was entrusted to lead this pantry in a new direction and showcase prosperity, stewardship, and gratitude. Today he pursues this work to provide his neighbors with the same warmth and love he received many years ago when he first visited the pantry. “It’s never too late to challenge old habits and take charge of your life.”
Meet Henry
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2017/2018 Financial Donors $100,000+
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Bank of America Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Joy in Childhood Foundation Melody and Gary Johnson Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Rick and Nancy Moskovitz Foundation The Spurlino Foundation The USAA Foundation, Inc. Walmart Wawa
Aflac Aldi Campbell Soup Capital One Cargill Incorporated Church Communities Foundation Costco Danielle Hintz First Presbyterian Church Jackson Family Enterprises, Inc. Kraft Foods Group Mabel and Ellsworth Simmons Charitable Foundation Macy’s Foundation Major League Baseball Players Trust Omni Hotels and Resorts PepsiCo PNC Bank Red Nose Day Robert Hogan and Jane Imboden Russell and Jeannette Harms SEG Smart & Final Charitable Foundation Sodexo, Inc. and Affiliates Speedway LLC Steve and Nancy Westphal Sysco Corporation T. Rowe Price Foundation, Inc. Taste of the NFL Tech Data The Estate of Sandi Dykes The New York Yankees Foundation, Inc. The Rotary Club of New Tampa Foundation Third Lake Capital United HealthCare Services, Inc.
$50,000-$99,999 BJ’s Charitable Foundation Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDs, INC EFSP Hillsborough Enterprise Holdings Foundation HM Insurance Group HSBC Humana Junior League of Tampa Bay Morgan Stanley Southeastern Grocers Volunteer Florida
$25,000-$49,999 AARP Adventist Health System C&S Wholesale Grocers ChappellRoberts ComDesign/CompuLink Conagra Brands Foundation Disney ESPN Florida Blue General Mills Foundation Hillsborough County Kellogg’s Company Kevin and Jeanne Milkey Kiwanis Club Of Greater Brandon Lightning Foundation MetLife Mosaic Company Foundation Norfolk Southern Foundation Produce for Kids Rays Baseball Foundation Steve and Cindy Shevlin Sykes Enterprises, Inc. TECO Energy The Benevity Community Impact Fund The Triad Foundation TJX Todd and Rita Wickner Wells Fargo Foundation
$5,000-$9,999 AmFund Anthem Foundation Axiom Bank Berkeley Preparatory School Brawny Buckeye Terminals, LLC Carlton Fields Christine Miller Coca-Cola Refreshments Combined Federal Campaign Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLP Crate & Barrel David Freitas David Lee David Weekley Family Foundation
David Weissner Ernest and Judith Lisi Feeding America, thanks to 7-Eleven Feeding America, thanks to BoxLunch Feeding America, thanks to IKEA Gleason Family Foundation Gray Robinson, P.A. Greystone Healthcare Management Helios Education Foundation IBEX, LLC James O’Rouke Janet Waite Jewish Benevolent Society of Greater Tampa Bay John and Deborah Johnson Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Johnson Cassidy, P.A. Keri Higgins Bigelow Lawyer’s Protector Plan Leslie Peter Foundation Mel Klinghoffer Michael and Phyllis Corr Morrison, Inc. Network for Good New York Life Giving Campaign Pampered Chef Panera Bread and Covelli Family Limited Partnership Patricia Boyce PulteGroup Raymond James Sandy Mackinnon Simply Healthcare Foundation Society of St Vincent de Paul Steve and Vicki Heiser Steve Dehmlow Subway Tamara Shumate Brown Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc. Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, Inc. The Caspers Company TriMark United Methodist Cooperative Ministries Suncoast US Raceworks, LLC WellCare Health Plans, Inc. Whole Foods Market William Draeger YourCause, LLC
Volunteers Volunteers are crucial to our mission and as our operations have grown in size and scope, our need for volunteers has expanded. Working to inspect and sort donated food is one of the most important volunteer opportunities we offer as it dictates what our hungry neighbors will find on their plates days later. Learn about food insecurity and make an impact on hunger in Tampa Bay.
Warehouse Sorting –
21,269 Volunteers
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500+ Hours Bank of America The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Girl Scouts JPMorgan Chase & Co. Liberty Mutual Suncoast ADT University of South Florida University of Tampa WellCare Health Plans
Produce Packaging –
inspect, separate, and pack produce into familysize portions
375-499 Hours Hillsborough Community College: Au Pair Humana Junior League of Tampa King High School Pricewaterhouse- Coopers
Winn Dixie Charity Market –
stock shelves at the agency grocery store and help agency partners shop
250-374 Hours Alonso High School DTCC MacDill Air Force Base MetLife The Mosaic Company
Mobile Pantries –
pack boxes of groceries and distribute directly to families in need
100-249 Hours Academy of the Holy Names Academy at the Lakes Busch Gardens Carrollwood Day School Dover Boys & Girls Club Esurance Grace Family Church Grow Financial HandsOn Hillel Academy of Tampa King of Kings Lend a Hand LOUD Runners Macy’s Ready 4 Work Tampa Preparatory School TECO Energy Tampa General Hospital VT Seva Young Men’s Service League
Dollar value impact
$1,467,921
Family Night –
an educational volunteer experience for children of all ages: take a warehouse tour, learn about hunger, and join a sorting shift
Skilled Volunteer –
share your skills with the food bank and complete projects on a flexible basis
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Eric Piburn - This 7-year-old hunger hero saw the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma and wanted to take action. A fan of peanut butter, he put together a peanut butter drive with the help of his friends at the Cheesecake Factory so those in need of a meal could have protein to eat. Eric raised over a pallet of peanut butter for our hungry neighbors – that’s 1,700 jars! Heroes at any age can take an idea and grow it into real change.
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AMA Marketer of the Year Award In 2017, Feeding Tampa Bay launched our first awareness campaign called Don’t Label Hunger in collaboration with our partners at ChappellRoberts. Don’t Label Hunger aimed to dispel the stereotypes surrounding food insecurity in Tampa Bay. This campaign delved into the lives of the individuals we serve, stripping the labels society had created for them and revealing the truth of hunger.
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The campaign gained significant traction in the media and was awarded various local and national honors for its content and creativity, including the American Marketing Association Marketer of the Year Award. We are proud to share the success of this campaign in drawing awareness to the stigmas surrounding hunger and in gaining recognition for its unique and creative flair.
Bolts Blue Flame Cookbook The Bolts Blue Flame cookbook allows fans to eat like their favorite hockey players and make a dent in the fight against hunger. Created in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Blue, the cookbook provides fans with delicious recipes and insights into the hockey player’s eating habits, favorite foods, and family traditions. Good food and healthy recipes nourish our bodies and bring a sense of comfort to our homes – an opportunity food insecure families can experience too from each cookbook sale.
Food For Families As awareness of food insecurity increases across Tampa Bay, so does community support. This past summer, ABC Action News and Seacoast Bank teamed together to host the first Food for Families food drive. During the summer months, family budgets that are already stretched thin are stressed even further while school is out. When school closes for the summer season, child care expenses increase and food budgets are divided more than usual since children no longer receive free meals on campus. Throughout the food drive, ABC and Seacoast team members educated the public on the causes of food insecurity and rallied the community to donate nonperishable goods to their various collection sites. This month-long push brought in 35,181 meals for hungry families in Tampa Bay, alleviating some of the burden experienced this time of year.
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On the surface, Epic Chef seems like a regular cooking competition, but its underlying aim is to draw attention to the important role food plays in our lives. This 7-week cooking competition pits some of the Bay area’s top chefs head to head to create tasteful concoctions in 30 minutes or less. Mystery ingredients are revealed at the beginning of each round, adding to the stress of the timed, live performance taking place in the Epicurean Theatre. At the end of each round, the judges taste the dishes the chefs have prepared and select a winner. Many come to compete, but only one can make it to the top. T
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During Epic Chef 2017, Chef Colin Reinsmith from Noble Crust fought his way through three rounds of steep competition to become Tampa Bay’s Epic Chef. With the help of Chef Colin and the other competing chefs, a new audience gained insight into the struggles of hunger in our community. As awareness spread, conversations started, and new supporters were inspired to act.
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Fork Fight was a night of exquisite dining, fine wine, and craft beer from some of Tampa Bay’s best restaurants and breweries. On May 3rd, food lovers and food bank supporters united to enjoy the food and fun along with some premier silent and live auction packages. Guests also learned that a meal holds more meaning than just food on a plate. In one night, our community raised 3 million meals for our neighbors in need – that’s 3 million steps toward health, and 3 million more moments shared around a table.
Christine Campbell, Van Buren Middle School Social Worker, shares the negative impacts of hunger on her students.
3 million meals... 3 million steps toward health
No event changes perceptions and shifts perspectives like the Hunger Dinner. This past February, guests were invited to Feeding Tampa Bay’s warehouse to enjoy a meal together, but it wasn’t a usual dining experience. Guests were challenged with a food insecure experience - being given a small budget to decide what they could eat that evening. Throughout the night, guests learn about the circumstances surrounding food insecurity, the tough choices those in poverty often have to make, and the programs in place to help alleviate this issue. This unique experience leaves a long-lasting impression and takes the conversation of food insecurity to a new level.
Feeding Tampa Bay supports more than 500 agency and community partners
Feeding Tampa Bay is the f hunger relie leader in 10-counties
Feeding Tampa Bay distributes more than 4 million meals every month
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Reaching Counties Citrus Sumter Hernando Pasco Pinellas Hillsborough Polk Manatee Hardee Highlands
Meet Wayne After his honorable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corp, Wayne traveled the world in search for a place to call home. His passion for entertaining others transpired into a 15-year long career in the carnival industry. As a retired disabled veteran on a fixed income, Wayne relies on his local food pantry to eat and live a healthy life. He regularly shops for vegetables that help him make soups that last him through the week. With no one in the world to call family, his relationship with his neighbors has helped him continue to touch people’s lives and maintain a positive outlook on life.
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Feeding Tampa Bay serves have jobs and are trying to make ends meet. With time already being a barrier for these individuals who are working, it has become more critical for Feeding Tampa Bay to make food resources convenient for those we serve. The Mobile Pantry Program brings nutritious foods into neighborhoods where access to these foods is low -- food deserts. Last year, to address this need and in response to an increased need from Hurricane Irma, Feeding Tampa Bay significantly increased the frequency of mobile pantries across our service territory. Another upgrade to this program we made was timing. We started offering mobile pantries at night and on the weekends to accommodate the hard-working families who cannot access food during the day while they are at work. Over the course of the year, Feeding Tampa Bay executed 194 mobile pantries that distributed 1.6 million pounds of food and impacted 127,331 people (49,156 of whom were children). S H O
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Feeding Minds School Pantry
Opened 8 school food pantries
Every day 1 in 4 children go hungry in Tampa Bay. In Hillsborough County alone, 63% of students receive free or reduced cost school lunches, and typically do not eat when school is not in session. Child hunger doesn’t just affect these young individuals, it affects our entire community. Without access to healthy, nutritious foods, children struggle behaviorally and academically.
Public Schools to create a program called Feeding Minds.
To start, the program opened 8 school food pantries over a 2-week period in areas at high-risk for food insecurity. These pantries will serve as a way for students to get food throughout the day when needed, and to take home over the weekends or on school breaks when food is scarce.
To combat this, Feeding Tampa Bay partnered with Publix Super Markets Charities and Hillsborough County
When students don’t receive the nourishment they need, it is difficult for them to learn, perform, and thrive. Feeding Minds aims to serve these children where they are so they can meet their basic need for food. Feeding Minds will nourish our communities and fuel our youth to lead our future.
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Two new trucks! One of the most basic solutions to common health issues is in what we eat. Food is crucial to our growth, development, mental capacity, and well-being. Food is at the intersection of health and hunger. S H O
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Recognizing this, our partners at Florida Blue have taken action to help us provide this most basic need to the hungry neighbors in our community. This past June, Florida Blue donated 2 refrigerated trucks to Feeding Tampa Bay in order to increase the amount of fresh produce distributed to food insecure families in our area. These trucks not only bring sustenance to individuals unsure of where they will find their next meal, but also provide foods high in nutritional content to those lacking essential vitamins and minerals. L
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Disaster Relief Efforts
Feeding Tampa Bay plays a vital role in responding to natural disasters – such as floods, tornadoes and hurricanes – throughout the state. As an affiliate of Feeding America and Feeding Florida, Feeding Tampa Bay accumulates and directs resources to other food banks in our network when national or local disasters take place. The destruction left by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria called the disaster relief plans into action. Responses to Hurricane Harvey were in place just as Hurricane Irma swept through the state of Florida. While some counties were spared, others faced destruction that would linger with long-term effects. Though hurricane season ended, the effects Hurricane Irma continued into the new year. To account for the influx of food insecure individuals brought upon by unforeseen circumstances, Feeding Tampa Bay continues to hold disaster plans in place.
In three months following Irma, Feeding Tampa Bay: Á Supplied
100 tractor trailer loads of MRE’s, water, and fruit
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additional warehouse space, trucks, equipment, and staff to aid in recovery Á Funded
hurricane repairs for 25 food pantry partners Á Held
over 80 mobile pantry distributions across 10 counties Á Distributed
9,339,729 meals
Polk County Transition At the beginning of 2018, Agape Food Bank, the organization contracted to manage food relief in Polk County on Feeding Tampa Bay’s behalf, shifted its mission and closed their food bank doors. As part of Feeding Tampa Bay’s service area, we stepped in to assume full responsibility of direct food relief operations in the county. Through this transition, we saw an opportunity to help build capacity of agency partners in Polk County and secured a grant from Walmart to purchase refrigerators, pallet jacks and pallet scales. These assets were transferred directly to some of our agency partners to enable the acquisition and distribution or fresh, healthy foods to Polk County residents in need.
Board of Directors 2017/2018 Chairman: Todd Wickner Vice-Chairman: Tim Merrick, MetLife, Inc. Immediate Past-Chairman: Jenna Nelson, Sykes Enterprises, Inc. Secretary: Eileen Stuart, Mosaic Company Treasurer: Dave Freitas, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
FTB mission: We change lives one meal at a time by leading our community in the fight against hunger.
FTB brand purpose: Food fuels potential. We passionately believe that access to healthy food is a fundamental human right and the foundation for future prosperity.
FTB brand promise: We are the compassionate connection between hungry individuals, families and seniors and the healthy, fulfilled lives they deserve. We feed the body, while nourishing the long-term potential of those in need.
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Steve Ellis, Publix Super Markets Dr. David Himmelgreen, USF - Anthropology Dana Ludwig, Brown & Brown of Florida, Inc. Amy Maguire Anna Wiand, GrayRobinson, P.A. Bill Abercrombie, Tampa Bay Lightning Bob Bucciarelli, Sodexo Health Care Colleen Chappell, ChappellRoberts Connie Detrick, Detrick Consulting Debra Faulk, Wells Fargo Bob Greenhaulgh, Toshiba Business Solutions Steve Heiser, Harvard Jolly Architectures Clara Lawhead, Pasco County Florida Melissa Powell, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Tom Scott Norwood Smith, Mainsail Lodging & Development Marc Spencer, U.S. Trust Mike Suarez, Tampa City Council Chuck Sykes, Sykes Enterprises, Inc. Rick Bennett, Florida Blue
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