2011 Second Harvest North Florida Annual Report

Second Harvest North Florida 2011 Annual Report

Second Harvest North Flori da

food and gro cer y pro ducts to hu ng ry peo ple and

the publi c abou t the causes and poss ible s olutions to p roblem s of dom es tic hung er.

Hunger is one of the biggest issues facing our community. It’s the first need. We have the answer.

Second Harvest impacts many nonprofit organizations that do great work in our community. We enable their work.

Finding food isn’t our challenge. Growing our capacity and network is the most important thing we can do.

Bruce Ganger

Executive Director

Food is the first need we have every day. When we wake in the morning, we look for something to eat. When we are hungry at noon, we take a break and eat again. Now imagine what it is like to wonder how you will find that next meal.

For thousands in our community that stress is a daily reality. They do not know where their next meal is coming from or when. At Second Harvest North Florida, our mission is to end hunger across the 17 counties we serve.

I am proud to report that in 2011 Second Harvest distributed more than 20 million pounds of food – the equivalent of nearly 17 million meals. Yet it was only enough to meet half of the need in north Florida. Despite tripling the amount of food delivered to the community in three years, there are still thousands – working people, children, homebound elderly – who are hungry every day. According to studies, we need to distribute 40 million pounds of food just to meet the current need. Each day that need is growing, and we’re peddling as fast as we can.

It seems simple – we get food, we sort food, we distribute food. But to move more of it we need to increase our capacity, with more trucks, a larger warehouse, more mobile distributions into struggling neighborhoods and to assist our agencies in increasing their capacity as well. We have a plan to create upstream solutions that address the issue of hunger rather than just treat the symptoms. We are marching toward a capital campaign to build a new facility that will play a key role in helping to create a sustainable food system. We can improve the standard of living in north Florida one family at a time. We are excited about where we are headed, but we need your help.

Last year nearly 4,000 volunteers donated more than 24,000 hours of their time at the food bank. During the same time frame we raised $1.55 million in private contributions from generous individuals, companies and foundations.

Without these resources, our work would stop and people would lose hope.

I just cannot accept that, and neither should you.

To those of you who helped us attack hunger in 2011 – thank you! Because of your investment, we were able to give hope to thousands who were hopeless.

If you have not yet, please join us. Together – as a community – we will end hunger in north Florida.

The food bank is, in many ways, a logistics business. Second Harvest has established a network of 450 agencies including feeding sites, food pantries and civic groups that directly serve those who are hungry on a daily basis.

It is the partnership with us that allows them to maximize their resources.

In today’s economy, every dollar saved counts.

No one stretches a dollar like us. For every dollar donated, we are able to generate seven meals, much more than if you purchased at a store.

To see more on the impact your donation makes, visit wenourishhope.org/onedollar

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2011 was a pivotal year.

Second Harvest distributed 20,044,625 pounds of food into the community in 2011, the equivalent of nearly 17 million meals.

Since 1979, Second Harvest North Florida’s mission has been providing food resources to hungry people. Second Harvest works within a vast network of resources and partners – including food and financial donors, a dedicated staff, volunteers that help manage the work load and agencies that distribute meals to families and individuals in need.

Since 2008 (7,650,409 pounds), Second Harvest has increased its distribution by 162 percent.

Second Harvest North Florida is a proud member of Feeding America – the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. It has a network of 205 member food banks and food-rescue organizations serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The Feeding America Network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually.

3,770 volunteers contributed more than 24,000 hours – the equivalent of 11.5 full-time employees.

Geographically, the area served by Second Harvest represents more than 10,000 square miles, including nearly 3,000 square miles served by the Second Harvest facility on Jessie Street.

Local donors supported the food bank like never before in response to the ongoing crisis – donating a record $1.55 million. Second Harvest’s premier special events – Jacksonville FOODFIGHT and the Empty Bowls Luncheon – enjoyed record years totaling more than $180,000 raised.

Second Harvest rescued more than 20 million pounds of surplus food in 2011, and all but 25,000 pounds was distributed.

The Need

Food Arrives

More than 342,000 individuals in the Second Harvest North Florida service area are deemed to be “food insecure” – which means they might not be hungry, but they also don’t know when they will eat again. Of that total, more than 117,000 are children. In the 17-county area we serve, 136,269 people are in a class of working poor with no access to federal or state benefits.

From Donations Local grocery store partners, regional food wholesalers, local food drives, individuals, farmers & farmers markets From Government Resources TEFAP (from USDA) Feeding America Network CHOICE system, national donor relationships As Purchased Resources

Food is Distributed

Food is Sorted/Stored

To 450+ Member Agencies Ministries, church pantries, medical clinics, senior citizen centers, after-school programs, summer programs, shelters & feeding sites

Food is sorted/stored in our 33,000-square-foot warehouse facility

Through Mobile Pantries Through Special Programs Kids Cafe, Summer Lunch feeding sites, BackPack Program, healthy food distribution programs, SNAP outreach

Perishable foods are stored in freezers or refrigeration units Non-perishable foods are sorted and shelved for distribution Second Harvest staff includes 24 direct operations employees 3,770 volunteers worked 24,000+ hours in 2011

At Second Harvest North Florida, we see the hunger problem in our community each day. Many factors contribute to its existence – from rising gas prices, to pricier trips to the grocery store, to skyrocketing utility costs and the collapse of the housing market. Any way you measure it, life is more expensive today than it was three years ago when the current recession began.

Data is now showing us how many people are affected. The statistics are alarming.

More than 342,000 individuals wake up each morning not knowing when they will find their next opportunity to eat. Among that total is more than 117,000 children under the age of 18.

While these families and individuals might not be hungry, they are considered to be food insecure, a term used by the federal government to describe lack of access, at times, for enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The fastestgrowing population in this food-insecure group is the working poor – households that have working members but can’t make ends meet, often times forced to substitute other bills and expenses for money that would have been used to buy food.

In the 17-county area served by Second Harvest North Florida, 136,269 people are in this class of working poor with no access to federal or state benefits and often limited means to buy food, according to a national study released by Feeding America, Map The Meal Gap 2011. The study indicates that 342,600 people are food insecure in the Second Harvest service area, a total that represents 17.5 percent of the area’s population. Of that total, 39.7 percent (136,269 people) make too much money to qualify for federal assistance like food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

One in six adults and one in four children are at risk of hunger in north Florida.

Even more troubling is that 25.6 percent of the area’s children under the age of 18 are food insecure (117,040) – including 41,117 whose families are considered to be working poor and don’t qualify for federal help.

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*Produce totals have increased from less than 500,000 pounds in 2009, to 2 million pounds in 2010, to 2.5 million pounds in 2011

Current Food

Types of food: Bakery 7% Dairy 8% Cans/Dry 57% Meat 13% Produce 12%* Other 3%

Second Harvest needs to distribute 40 million pounds annually by 2015 to adequately meet the need The fastest-growing type of food available is produce, which must be tripled by 2015

Extend facility operations outside of warehouse (mobile pantries)

One small industrial cooler and one small industrial freezer Member agencies lack freezer/cooler capacity to accept perishable goods Fleet of 13 vehicles covers 5,000 square miles (5 counties)

Secure offsite storage for additional capacity within existing warehouse

Current Logistics

Current 30,000-square-foot warehouse facility with limited storage, areas for volunteers, parking and loading dock bays

SHNF paid staff is 24, with almost 4,000 volunteers in 2011

17.5% of the population – which includes children, homebound elderly, pregnant mothers, the unemployed, the working poor, disabled adults and others 17 counties (10,000 square miles) 170,000 people are currently being served by Second Harvest each year Second Harvest’s goal is to end hunger in north Florida by 2015!

Current Need Met

342,600 people are food insecure in north Florida

Extend operating hours and create multiple shifts for operation Automate warehouse processes, inventory system and mapping capability Secure industrial freezer and cooler space for member agencies More fleet trucks, more drivers, more funds for maintenance, increased coverage area Increased food distribution will require more staff, and a force of 10,000 volunteers is projected for 2015

Need to be Met

In many ways, it’s a perfect storm.

Consumers are focused on their nutritional needs and looking for opportunities to get fresh fruits and vegetables. More of that is available to us than ever before. But we and our agencies have to modify our business practices to operate in a new way.

20.1 million pounds distributed in 2011

Logistics Needed

To effectively handle this evolution of food donations, more freezer and cooler space is needed. And, as importantly, our member agencies need to have adequate cooling and freezer space of their own to safely handle and store what we are delivering. Historically, food pantries have only had to receive dry and shelf-stable goods.

Second Harvest is on target to distribute 40 million pounds of food by 2015, but we are confronted by a logistics bottleneck. We know where the food is, how to get it, how to sort it and how to distribute it. We also know where the hungry people are who need our help. To achieve success, we must widen this bottleneck and effectively pair food resources with families experiencing need.

Food Needed

Retail donations to Second Harvest reflect what consumers are seeing in grocery stores – fewer shelves and more space dedicated to fresh produce, meat and dairy around the outside of the store, and more coolers and freezers in the middle.

Why? Consumers are demanding it.

In addition, retailers are doing a better job of managing their inventories of canned and boxed products. As a result, fewer of these “shelf stable” items trickle down to the food bank. More donations are from the dairy, bakery, meat and produce sections. That’s good for nutrition, but it causes challenges.

172,000+ people currently not being served – a significant gap to be filled by 2015 Increase education about healthy eating Increase total number of member agencies Increase number of mobile pantries Grow children’s programs to reach the 117,000 in our service area who are food insecure

Second Harvest hosted a Wine In A Warehouse event for the Jacksonville Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, sharing the organizational vision with key leaders in the logistics industry.

Florida’s Dixie Egg

The 10th Annual Canstruction

Company donated 32,400

event was held at the Jacksonville

eggs to Second Harvest

Landing, resulting in 2,892 pounds

North Florida to help

of donated food by the design, construction and

families in need, just in

engineering communities – helping the event reach

time for the Easter holiday.

a 10-year total of more than 100,000 pounds donated to Second Harvest.

April

February Local business leaders were invited to explore

May

The Church of Jesus Christ

the issue of childhood hunger and its impact on

of Latter-day Saints (LDS), in

academic success at the River Club in downtown

partnership with Second

Jacksonville at an event organized by Second

Harvest North Florida, the

Harvest North Florida. Featured speakers were

Northeast Florida Red Cross

Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding

and The Blood Alliance, hosted

America, and Dr. John Cook, professor of

its Third Annual Day of Service.

pediatrics from Boston University and the author of Child Food Insecurity: The Economic Impact on our Nation.

Second Harvest North Florida and Publix Supermarkets, Inc.,

Stamp Out Hunger, the nation’s largest annual food

announced the roll-out of a

drive sponsored by The National Association of

store donation program that

Letter Carriers, resulted in more than 250,000

will generate millions of

pounds of donated food, the equivalent of more

pounds of important food

than 200,000 meals for people in need.

resources annually.

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Chick-fil-A at Roosevelt Square and Second Harvest teamed up for the fifth straight year to feed hungry children during the summer through the Nourishing Kids Summer Meals Program. More than 1,000 meals for children were generated through in-store donations.

The Second Harvest North Florida Kids Cafe Program operated 42 sites during the 2011-12 school year as part of the Afterschool Snack Program, a subcomponent of the Child Care Food Program provided through the Florida Department of Health.

The 21st Annual Jacksonville FOODFIGHT, presented by EverBank, raised a record of nearly $100,000 for

Bank of America sponsored a

Second Harvest North Florida while

back-to-school mobile distribution in St. Johns County,

attracting more than 1,200 attendees.

providing important food

Jacksonville

resources for low-income

businessman Bruce

children at South Woods

Ganger was named

Elementary School.

executive director

Second Harvest held the annual Member Agency Conference at Household of Faith Church.

August

June Second

LSS held its annual volunteer appreciation event at the

Harvest

Haskell Building.

at Second Harvest North Florida.

September

North Florida received 13,000 cans of Campbell’s Chunky

Feeding America promoted the

Soup to celebrate the Jaguars'

Third Annual Hunger Action Month.

second-place finish in the 2010 Chunky Soup Click for Cans competition.

Wells Fargo announced a donation of $20,000 to Second Harvest North Florida

The Feds Feed Families national food drive generated

and three other Florida food

more than 90,000 pounds of food donated by the

banks as part of the company’s

military personnel, families and commissary vendors

brand rollout celebration in

at NAS Jacksonville.

downtown Jacksonville.

Map The Meal Gap study was released by Feeding America, which indicates more than 342,000 individuals are food insecure in the 17-county area served by Second Harvest North Florida, including 117,000 children.

Wal-Mart donated and installed racking and shelving display units in the Second Harvest warehouse, increasing inventory The Jaguars Family Food Drive,

efficiency. It was a generous year by local Wal-Mart stores,

sponsored by Winn-Dixie, netted

which provided 2.08 million meals, volunteers and grant

74,877 pounds in food donations

dollars in support of the food bank.

and $2,500 in monetary donations over six weeks.

The fourth Hero Central Food Drive, presented

by First Coast News and Publix, generated nearly The 27th Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon set record marks for attendance with

37,000 meals for people in need on the First Coast.

1,400 and funds raised with

Community Safety Net Fund at The Community Foundation

more than $81,000.

awarded Second Harvest with $110,400 for the purchase of a mobile pantry truck.

October

November

Second Harvest executive director

December Second Harvest provided

Bruce Ganger was named head

emergency water relief to

of the Jacksonville Food Policy

the Mondex community in

Council, which brings together

Flagler County – delivering

stakeholders from diverse food-

more than 420,000 pounds

related sectors to examine how

of potable water.

the food system is operating and to develop recommendations on how to improve it for the benefit of our community.

Lift Up America and the Jacksonville Jaguars teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc. to distribute 30,000 pounds of protein to more than 30 Second Harvest agencies.

2,500 Thanksgiving meals – complete with frozen turkeys and all the fixins’ – were distributed in less than three hours at a special mobile pantry event at EverBank Field. The

The Jacksonville Jaguars teamed with Second Harvest for the third

event was sponsored by Black

consecutive year to distribute Christmas joy to local families in need

Diamond Performance Reporting.

– delivering 1,000 holiday meal boxes.

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Bishop Lillie Blackshear answers her phone with an emphatic “God bless you.” And she truly means it. As the pastor for True Light of God in Christ Church on the west side of Jacksonville since 1985, she works her ministry by feeding people spiritually and nutritionally.

“Members would say that they have friends in need, and I started collecting clothes and food,” explained Bishop Blackshear. “Then I learned about Second Harvest. I started getting food from them and they helped me qualify for USDA food distribution.”

Today she serves between 300 and 500 families a month including deliveries to the homebound. Many of the people who come to her church for food have jobs, yet they don’t have enough money to take care of all their needs.

“Many people take care of their elderly parents who don’t have Social Security or are raising children,” she said. “They don’t make enough money, so there is a choice between buying food and medication.”

“ We serve a var iety of peopl e. Many of them wor k but do n’t have enough m oney since they are taking care of p arents or child ren. It’s often a choice between buy ing fo od and b uyi ng medication.”

-Bis ho p Bl ackshear

People start lining up as early as 2 or 3 a.m. when she does food distributions on the second Thursday of the month and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon. The fresh food comes in on Friday, and the USDA food is usually canned goods, chicken and ham.

“We teach them how to cook the food, explaining the recipes they can use,” she added. “They may have never seen this type of food, but they’ll come back to us and ask for more saying ‘That was good!’”

How We Create Hope

Giving Meals to Those In Need:

Through its partnership with True Light of God Church of God in Christ, Second Harvest North Florida has created hope for thousands of its neighbors in need in west Jacksonville. In 2011 alone, Second Harvest provided 582,199 pounds of food to True Light of God, creating 485,166 meals for families, children and seniors who are experiencing hunger.

Purchasing that same volume of food in a local grocery store would have cost True Light of God $966,450.

How You Can Help A mobile distribution costs $1,000

Sponsoring a mobile pantry is a personal, powerful experience for all involved. Volunteers can engage directly with families in their community that are hungry – and will leave knowing that they have made a difference in those neighbor’s lives. For companies and organizations, it offers an opportunity for community involvement – and positive recognition.

The hope it provides is priceless

A blue Second Harvest truck delivers 8,400 pounds of food (the equivalent of 7,000 meals) to long lines of needy people. An estimated 237 families benefit from each mobile distribution – providing a family of four enough food to sustain them for five days.

Second Harvest is committed to providing relief to communities and neighborhoods where food resources are scarce.

One way we accomplish this is by delivering trucks filled with healthy foods and other key staples to economically challenged areas where residents might otherwise find their dinner tables empty. Second Harvest works with a member agency or a sponsoring group such as a church, school or civic center to identify an appropriate distribution point and to recruit volunteers.

In 2011, Second Harvest coordinated 260 mobile distributions, serving 61,620 families. In order to meet the need in 2012, that number will double to 520 mobile events, two per day Monday-Friday, throughout the year. Distributions like the one featured on the adjacent page at True Light of God help provide a bridge to enable folks to survive difficult times. Mobile pantries feed homebound seniors, expectant mothers and working families who work hard and earn income but simply can’t

For more information about how you, your church, place of business or community group can sponsor a mobile pantry, visit WeNourishHope.org/mobilepantry or call 904.353.FOOD.

find a way to make ends meet. Mobile pantries also ease the transportation barriers that prevent some families from visiting a pantry to receive food assistance.

These rolling food pantries also provide an important tool for Second Harvest to continue growing its This food is very important because it helps me out in meeting my daily needs of food. I am thankful for distribution network the mobile food pantry at True Light of God which is outside of the walls of its staffed by very compassionate people. - John Lineberry, Jessie Street facility. As an 86-year-old veteran of World War II where his claim to fame was that he captured five German soldiers! the food bank searches for ways to maximize the capacity of its 30,000-square-foot warehouse, mobile distributions have become an important tool. More than 4.3 million pounds of food will be delivered directly into low-income neighborhoods through the mobile distribution program in 2012 – almost 20 percent of the organization’s projected output for the calendar year.

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To learn more about mobile food distribution, visit wenourishhope.org/mobilepantry

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“ A l ot o f p atients don’ t hav e access to this food, and it opened the doo r that it tastes good and is relati vely qu ick and conv enient to eat. It gav e them the idea that fr esh fru it and vegetabl es ar e an option fo r them.”

-Mi sha Bi d en, Nu tri tioni st

That’s what Healthy Start nutritionist Misha Biden heard from many women who were part of the Azalea Project. These women, who faced addiction challenges, were pregnant and receiving care from Shands Jacksonville Medical Center. But if they didn’t eat healthy food, even more challenges were likely ahead – gestational diabetes, high blood pressure for the mother and even infant mortality or childhood obesity issues for the child.

Second Harvest North Florida, Shands and the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition – with the help of a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation – combined to offer healthy food to the women when they came in for their obstetric appointments.

At the height of the project, 70 bags of food were given out each day.

“Patients would say they needed a snack, and instead of running to fast food or a convenience store bag of chips, they were eating oranges,” she said. “We brought in Chef Jessica Bright to do cooking demonstrations four times a year. Many of our clients had never had some of the vegetables we were distributing. We had to tell them how to cook them, so we would also hand out recipes.

“A lot of these women want to reach a higher level of education, and it’s about finding that bridge to help them reach those goals,” said Biden. “Many of our patients didn’t have access to this food, and it opened the door that it tastes good and is relatively quick and convenient to eat.”

How We Create Hope

Distributing Nutitrious Meals:

During the 18-month program conducted at Shands Jacksonville, Second Harvest distributed 222,268 pounds of food to more than 20,000 expectant mothers. That total was the equivalent of 185,223 nutritious meals. In addition to a 10-pound bag of food received each visit, the women also received important information about food preparation and healthy eating. During this program’s existence from November 2009 to June 2011, Jacksonville’s infant mortality rate decreased significantly. The wholesale value of the food provided to this program was $368,965, a return of nearly 300 percent on the funding received from the Wal-Mart Foundation.

Hungry children cannot thrive. Yet more than 117,000 children in the 17 counties served by Second Harvest are at risk of going hungry each day.

They can’t grow, develop and learn like other kids. They have trouble focusing and getting along. They complain often of headaches, stomachaches and other ailments. They fall behind in virtually every way.

Second Harvest is working to reach these children through three unique programs dedicated to child nutrition – Kids Cafe, BackPack and Summer Feeding. All three programs make nutritious meals and snacks available to children from low-income homes – ensuring that they are well-nourished and able to thrive.

Kids Cafe: This program provides nutritious snacks through after-school programs. In 2011, 376,503 snacks were served at 50 sites – helping between 2,500 and 2,700 children each month.

“The bags I got had mostly fruits and vegetables.

This helped me because I had gestational diabetes, and I knew I had to eat better. Other food programs like WIC had some fruits and vegetables but only $10 worth. These bags helped me eat more healthy foods. I liked getting this food every week.” - L.G., a patient who

Summer Meals: During the summer months, when school is not in session, free and reduced-fee lunch programs are not always available. In 2011, Second Harvest’s summer meals program supported 28 feeding sites, serving 106,530 hot meals.

BackPack: BackPacks are filled with child-friendly nonperishable food for children to take home over weekends and holiday breaks during the school year. In 2011, eight sites distributed 167,680 backpacks to 524 children.

SNAP Outreach: The food bank has also joined forces with the United Way and other government and business leaders in Flagler County to help residents – especially those with children – apply for and receive food stamp benefits. The program began in August and has already made a significant impact by securing nearly 200 applications, which have resulted in more than $361,800 in benefits.

The economic impact of those benefits in the county is more than $650,000.

To learn more about children’s programs, visit wenourishhope.org

delivered her baby on March 2, 2011, at Shands

How You Can Help A bag of food per child (for them & their family) for the weekends during the 42-week school year costs only $100 The cost to send home a bag of shelf-stable food per child each weekend for the entire 42-week school year is just $100 per child. The food is intended to supplement the weekend meals both for the child and other members in the household. Currently, we are distributing backpack bags to 600 children for the 2011-2012 school year. But 1,900 other children similarly identified as food insecure are going without due to a lack of necessary funding.

For the 2,500 children who participate in the Second Harvest Kids Cafe Program, nutrition begins and ends with the school day. Breakfast and lunch are available free through their schools, and a nutritious after-school snack is provided by Second Harvest. However, during the weekends or extended school breaks like Christmas, many of these children go for days without food in their stomachs. Recognizing this problem, Second Harvest began the BackPack Program in 2008.

For more information about how you, your church, place of business of community group can support the BackPack program, visit WeNourishHope.org/backpack or call 904.353.FOOD. 2011 Annual Report:

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*This chart does not include $18,856,009, which represents the value of in-kind food donations received.

Second Harvest depends on private support to fulfill our mission to end

Fundraising

hunger in north Florida. Philanthropic dollars are the lifeblood of our overall food bank operation, and at the same time fuel the specific work of our partner agencies to whom we provide food. Gifts enhance our ability to distribute more food in an effort to meet the 40 million pound need in our service area. We hope you’ll partner with us, and believe the $1 = 7 meals (700%) return on investment is one that will make you proud.

Pounds of Food

* This chart does not include $18,760,111, which represents the value of in-kind food donations distributed.

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