The North Texas Food Bank has a new plan to fight hunger and is asking the community for $ 500 million in food and funding.
“We are very excited to announce Nourish North Texas. It’s an ambitious campaign. It’s about how we can help the North Texas Food Bank raise $ 500 million so we can change the way we fight hunger here in North Texas, ”said Trisha Cunningham, North President and CEO the Texas Food Bank.
The three-year campaign is divided into three parts.
$ 150 million in monetary donations:
- Supports the core task of procuring, collecting and transporting food to more than 200 partner agencies in the 13 counties served.
- Extends the ability to deliver groceries directly to children, seniors and families through mobile pantries, “Food 4 Kids” and school pantry programs and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.
- Allows NTFB to forge new and expanded partnerships that address the root causes of food insecurity and help our neighbors become more self-sufficient. This includes helping NTFB partner agencies build capacity to serve more people more effectively.
$ 300 million in donated food:
- Offsets the largest expense for the NTFB – the cost of food purchased – by sourcing nutritious groceries from community donors, retail partners, and food manufacturers. The prices of groceries bought have increased six times compared to pre-pandemic levels.
$ 50 million for a foundation:
- Provides a permanent, sustainable source of income to supplement the dollars raised annually. It holds permanently invested cash gifts and temporarily limited funds for emergencies. This provides a safety net to feed hungry neighbors during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, and allows the NTFB to invest in growth capacity.
The 13-county North Texas Food Bank Region is the sixth highest in the nation for people living with food insecurity. Still, the community helped the nonprofit distribute record 125 million meals in the past fiscal year, helping it meet its strategic goal of 92 million meals five years ahead of schedule.
The board stands ready to build on that success with a strategic plan that it believes will provide food for today and hope for tomorrow.
“Our number one core competency is food distribution, and we have aligned this strategic plan with that core competency, but we feel we have a responsibility to take on our core competency in nutrition and to help others who are trying to combat these causes of hunger and help them accelerate their progress, “said Cunningham.
The $ 500 million campaign is the largest social organization campaign in North Texas history. It is also the greatest effort of any member of the statewide Feeding America.
Nourish North Texas quietly started in July 2020 in the middle of the pandemic and raised nearly $ 53.4 million for the $ 150 million public support goal, nearly $ 84 million for the food donation goal and in the first year $ 13 million in foundation funds.
NTFB believes that after a three-year campaign, it can meet the needs for the years to come.
“We know it will take years for our community to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic. But what we want to do is be there to support them. Our team, our North Texas Food Bank family and the feeding network have worked so hard for the past 18 months to get food into the hands of those in need seven days a week and now we want to make sure we move on can move forward. And our community that has supported us, they are the wind under our wings. And that’s exactly what this Nourish North Texas campaign is all about, helping us have the resources to keep fighting hunger so that we can have a healthy, hunger-free North Texas, “said Cunningham.
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