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‘Moonshot’ to End Hunger Gap PRUITT’S LEGACY GROWS AS NTFB PURSUES GOAL COMMUNITY
By William Taylor
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People Newspapers North Texas Food Bank leaders know they can’t feed the hungry with food donations alone. Tackling challenges, creating awareness, and helping people takes ideas, too. Jan Pruitt, who died Jan. 2, led the food bank for 20 years and championed the idea that “it’s everyone’s responsibility to help our food-insecure neighbors achieve what so many of us take for granted.” Residents of Preston Hollow, the Park Cities, and elsewhere assist with old-fashioned ideas, such as writing letters; artsy ideas, such as canned-food sculptures; and entrepreneurial ideas, such as turning nuisance mistletoe into cash for the cause. Agency leaders, prompted by Pruitt, are employing their boldest ideas yet in a decade-long effort to remake the food bank and close the hunger gap in North Texas by 2025, NTFB board chairman Tom Black and interim president and CEO Simon Powell said. “The leadership that Jan Pruitt provided to feeding the hungry must now be replaced by all of us who she inspired to join the cause,” said Joanne Teichman, a Preston Hollow resident who has been involved with the Food 4 Kids Letter Writing Campaign. Pruitt had discontinued treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and stepped down as
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A B O V E : The legacy of Jan Pruitt, who died Jan. 2, is expected to grow as the North Texas Food Bank pursues her goal of closing the hunger gap in 13 counties. B E L O W : Joyce Goss and Joanne Teichman are the North Texas Food Bank’s Volunteers of the Year.
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Food Bank Friends Preston Hollow resident Joanne Teichman credits a letter from friends with bringing to her attention the needs of school children with nothing to eat on weekends. “We just took out our check book and wrote a check, a big check,” Teichman said. “We thought this can’t be happening in Dallas.” Pam Beckert, Diane Buchanan, and Patsy Fagadau started the Food 4 Kids Letter Writing Campaign in 2006. According to the North Texas Food Bank, $5 provides a child with a backpack of nutritious, C O U R T E SY J O A N N E T E I C H M A N
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