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The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is ending hunger and transforming the health of Santa Barbara County through good nutrition.

The Foodbank's mission is to provide highly nutritious food to the community's hungry citizens and to ensure that no individual go hungry, not even for a single day. 68% percent of the food recipients are hungry children, 19% are hungry seniors, and 13% to hungry adults. The Foodbank has been providing food to impoverished children, families, and seniors residing in Los Angeles County since 1975, with a dominate focus on the poorest of the poor neighborhoods including downtown Los Angeles, Compton, San Pedro, South Central, Watts, and North Long Beach. The Foodbank solicits wholesome donations of nutritious food from the food industry and channels these products to charitable community organizations supporting low income individuals. The Foodbank of Southern California is a principal front end food provider to hundreds of community-based agencies who feed the hungry children, families and seniors. The Foodbank aids community-based organizations who are independently be unable to handle the logistics of transportation, space and refrigeration. The Foodbank's network receives food for emergency and non-emergency food programs such as shelters for abused children and women, crises centers, day care centers for children and seniors, senior centers, emergency box programs, soup kitchens, and food pantries. The agency is a vital link in the continuum of care that facilitates the needs of low-income people in our community. There are over 700 community-based agencies in The Foodbank's network. The small agencies may each feed 20 to 50 people, 5 days a week, while the larger agencies may each feed up to 1,500 people, 1 to 5 days each week. Hunger exists in every corner of Los Angeles County, exacting a physical, psychological, social and economic to afflicted children, families, and seniors. Unfortunately, the demand for emergency food assistance in Los Angeles County has increased every year during The Foodbank's 35-year history. Despite the growth in provision of services, as a feeding agency, The Foodbank is faced with providing increased service delivery to more people than was ever anticipated. Meanwhile, there is a continuous decrease in the already limited government support to transport and distribute food to our disadvantaged constituency. Impoverished families typically have enough money for only one week worth of food for the entire month. A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that an average American family spends 13 percent of their income on food. For a family of five, with an income of $22,000, after taxes, this would leave them with $178 for their monthly food budget. That's just a little more than a dollar a day per person. In contrast, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's most conservative suggested food budget, The Thrifty Food Plan, proposes that a family of this size should be spending at least $149 a week on food. The Living Wage project, based out of Penn State University, believes that number should be even higher. According to their formula, a family of this size should have a weekly food budget of $172.

Food, immunizatons, Christian education, water purification and self help programs for children and their families in Africa and Christian orphange support, as well as providing aid for single, black working mothers in the U.S.

To prepare and equip men and women in agriculture for more effective leadership. California agriculture must continue to find those individuals who are equipped to respond to the major challenges facing our state.  

With experience running poverty alleviation programs in Haiti since 1989, Hope for Haiti has emerged as one of the most trusted non-profit organizations working to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children, in southern Haiti. The organization’s team and network of partners provide people with better access to education, healthcare, water, and economic development opportunities. Hope for Haiti is a 4-star charity by Charity Navigator and a participant at the Platinum Level through the GuideStar Exchange, two leading independent evaluators recognizing the organization’s transparency and careful stewardship of donor resources. To learn more: www.hopeforhaiti.com. 

The Center For Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living.

“IDES exists to meet physical and spiritual needs of suffering people throughout the world in the name of Jesus Christ."

Clemmons Food Pantry, a 401(c)(3) non-profit organization, is committed to reducing hunger by providing supplemental groceries to residents of Forsyth County, NC and surrounding areas.

HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK COLLECTS, STORES, AND DISTRIBUTES NUTRITIOUS FOOD PRODUCTS TO NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, WHICH PROVIDE FREE FEEDING PROGRAMS THAT SERVE BOTH ILL AND NEEDY FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN MONROE, MARTIN, OWEN, ORANGE, BROWN, AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES IN CENTRAL INDIANA.

The Well Outreach exists to be the hands and feet of Jesus by serving those in need through supporting spiritual, emotional, and physical growth.  This outreach includes a food pantry that is open 4 mornings and 2 evenings per week, a weekend backpack food program in area schools, "snack stash" bins full of snacks provided to area schools, and mobile food pantries held several times a year serving the larger community.

TO SUPPORT CENTRAL FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL FOOD PANTRIES

Mission Agape is devoted to demonstrating God's love on earth. We strive to Love People, Meet Needs, and Build Relationships. We do so through multiple programs benefiting 6 counties in the Permian Basin.