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What emerged as an essential service to address food insecurity during the start of the Covid-19 global pandemic, our Community Relief program will position our community of volunteers with partner schools and nonprofits to ensure access to food. Organizations who typically have not worked with food packing or distribution are being forced to expand as our community sees less access to food programs.

Hands On Atlanta has stepped in to provide direction and organization on best practices to efficiently pack and distribute food to families safely, and recruit and manage volunteers. Since March, our team has managed over 150 projects and recruited over 2000 volunteers.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Food banks across the country are pursuing major expansion projects driven in part by their experiences during the pandemic, when they faced an explosion of need.

“So many people who had never had to ask for help found themselves in a position of needing it and not knowing where to go,” said Ginette Bott, president and CEO of the Utah Food Bank. “It was like somebody flipped a switch.”

Even though demand for fresh and packaged provisions has dropped from pandemic peaks, the need remains far above pre-pandemic levels.

Feeding South Florida is planning a large new plant to increase its produce supply. Two North Carolina food banks flush with cash from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott are set to build new structures that will double their capacity to store food. The Utah Food Bank is adding space in Salt Lake City and is also set to erect new food atlanta community food bank moving elsewhere in the state.

And in Georgia, the Atlanta Community Food Bank moved into a 345,000-square-foot (32,000-square-meter) warehouse billed as the world’s largest food bank. The move preceded COVID-19, but officials say it was a boon during the pandemic.

“We have never, ever, including during the pandemic, been able to touch everyone who needs (help),” said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, a national network of most food banks in the U.S. “But what we’ve come to understand better than we ever have before is what we’re capable of and how do we think through the long game.”

In Utah, one of two new warehouses will be near a Native American reservation that was a challenge to serve during the pandemic, said Bott. The second site will offer free dinners to kids, a population that suffered acutely from food insecurity when schools that provided meals went virtual.

Overall, the food bank will more than double its storage capacity after it incurred additional costs for extra space needed during the pandemic, Bott said. She estimated the new projects would cost credit one capital one logo $40 million.

As part of its own expansion, the Food Bank of the Albemarle in northeast North Carolina is making sure it has enough generators in case a hurricane or tornado knocks out power, said Executive Director Liz Reasoner.

Meanwhile, Feeding South Florida is planning to build a 50,000- to 80,000-square-foot (4,600 to 7,400-square-meter) plant to freeze and package produce. The goal is to take in more crops during the growing season and then make them available year-round, said CEO Paco Velez.

“There’s still a lot of produce that goes to waste,” he said.

The projects come amid persistent food insecurity in the U.S. despite the country’s slow crawl back from the economic fallout of the pandemic. Feeding America’s food banks provided a record 6.6 billion meals between July 2020 and June 2021, up from 5.2 billion the year before, the organization said.

On a recent weekday, a dozen cars lined up well before opening time at the Toco Hills Community Alliance, a food pantry in a well-off suburb northeast of Atlanta. Volunteers in masks waited under a white tent to load canned fruit and vegetables, fresh produce and meat and other groceries into trunks as drivers came through one at a time.

Helen Moody, a 60-year-old disabled U.S. Army veteran, has relied on the pantry for groceries since 2017. Moody said she and her husband live off $2,000 a month and do not qualify for federal food assistance.

“We’re on a real tight budget,” she said. “When we come over here, then we’re able to have just a little bit for other things, just a little leeway because other than that you have no breathing space.”

The community alliance buys some of its food from the Atlanta Community Food Bank at deeply discounted prices. The food bank’s expansion has given it access to a wider variety of food products, said Lisa Heilig, the alliance’s executive director. A few months ago, she was able to offer guava, a fruit familiar to some of the Hispanic immigrants who use the pantry.

The Atlanta Community Food Bank’s new facility near Atlanta’s international airport has a food storage area equal to roughly five and a half football fields. A tour of the facility last month provided a glimpse of the advantages a larger site provides.

Forklifts carrying large pallets of food moved freely around the expansive floor, their drivers beeping gently to warn passersby. Nearly three dozen docking doors allowed trucks to deliver and pick up food with no wait times. In a separate area, volunteers in masks checked the expiration dates of cereal boxes, canned soup and other groceries.

Food banks rely heavily on volunteers, but many could not safely accommodate them during the pandemic and had to find alternate sources of help.

The new location has allowed the food bank to distribute tens of millions atlanta community food bank moving additional pounds of food.

“There’s just a large number of our neighbors, who by virtue of rising housing costs, rising health care costs and other pressures that they face, need help meeting all their basic needs,” said Kyle Waide, president of the Atlanta Community Food Bank. “And we think that pressure is going to be here indefinitely even without the pandemic.”

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Our Timeline

1979

As Director of the Community Kitchen at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church downtown, Bill Bolling saw the need to move beyond what one church and program could provide. He promised to secure enough food if other organizations would join him in the work, and the Atlanta Community Food Bank was born. In its first year, the Food Bank distributed 15,279 pounds of food to 25 partnering organizations.

1983

Movin’ on up! The Food Bank relocated from the basement of St. Luke’s to its first warehouse on Whitehall Street, which facilitated the distribution of more than two million pounds of food. The new space provided room to grow, but not for long.

1984

In 1984, The Food Bank moved to the facility at 970 Jefferson Street. Over the next 20 years, the former Anheuser-Busch warehouse was our central hub for the distribution of millions of pounds of food and grocery products to hundreds of agencies serving the hungry across metro Atlanta.

1984

The annual Hunger Walk, now the Hunger Walk Run, was born as a small grassroots project. The walk took its first steps with approximately 1,000 participants of every race, age, gender and religion sharing a core belief that no one should go without such a basic need great western bank omaha ne routing number food.

1987

The Food Bank’s prepared and perishable food rescue project, Atlanta’s Table, hit the ground running with strong support from Atlanta’s hospitality community. Food was picked up at participating restaurants, how does premier financial services work and caterers, then delivered to partner agencies serving hot meals for the hungry. As one of the first of its kind in the country, it served as a model for many other cities.

1992

On January 21, 1992, the Food Bank hit a big milestone, distributing its 50 millionth pound of food since opening in 1979 to partner agency Rainbow Pantry of Royston, Georgia.

1995

The Food Bank’s Hunger 101 project got underway with the goal to raise awareness about hunger and poverty on local and national levels through interactive workshops, shared curricula and other creative tools. Thousands of people of all ages have participated through their schools, corporations, civic groups and congregations.

1995

The Food Bank’s Community Gardens project took root, helping to establish and maintain gardens in communities across metro Atlanta. By providing everything from seeds to volunteers, the Food Bank empowered neighbors to help neighbors—growing not only food to share, but also growing their communities.

1996

Atlanta hosted the Olympic Games, and the Food Bank’s “Summer Harvest” Food Recovery collected hundreds of thousands of pounds of excess prepared food from Olympic venues. Throughout the duration of the Games, food was delivered daily to Food Bank partner agencies.

2000

The Food Bank’s Kids In Need project had its unlikely beginnings when the School, Home and Office Product Association show came to town. The Food Bank rescued tractor-truckloads of product after the close of the show and thousands of low-income students began receiving brand new school supplies through the Food Bank’s free store for educators.

2001

The Food Bank’s first-ever capital campaign to build a new facility began. The goals for the new building were many: an expanded warehouse, energy efficiency, space to host community meetings and much more. Ultimately, the campaign aimed to empower the Food Bank to better serve its partners in hunger relief so that more people would have access to enough food for a healthy life.

2004

Construction at 732 Joseph E. Lowery was completed and the Food Bank moved into its new home in December of 2004! The new 129,000 sq. ft. atlanta community food bank moving was one of the first LEED certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) food banks in the country. With more warehouse space and docks, as well as brand new operational systems, the Food Bank was equipped to step into atlanta community food bank moving future.

2007

The Food Bank’s Atlanta Prosperity Campaign (APC) was launched to connect working families across metro Atlanta to economic support systems through benefit screening and application assistance services. During its first six years, APC would also lead the growth of metro Atlanta’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, offering free tax preparation to qualifying families.

2010

In an effort to provide more food for the growing numbers of people in need, the Food Bank made capacity-building for our partner agencies a focal point of the 2010 Strategic Plan. By 2013, with support from a major foundation, the Food Bank began distributing capacity grants. The first round of grant recipients generated 35% growth in distribution, soundly surpassing the 10% increase goal established.

2013

With support from more than 15,000 volunteers, a staff of 130 and thousands of food and fund donors, the Food Bank’s distribution surpassed 45 million pounds of food and grocery products in just one year. From 2009-2013, largely in response to the growing need during our country’s economic crisis, distribution increased by 125%.

2014

As the Food Bank moves forward, nutrition and wellness are key priorities. We are not only securing more healthy food items for distribution to our partner agencies, but we are also participating in community initiatives and collaborations to generate greater awareness about nutritious options and to make those options affordable and accessible.

2015

After 36 years of running the Food Bank, founder Bill Bolling retired, handing amazon digital music reins to Kyle Waide, the Food Bank Vice President of Partner Operations.

2016

The Food Bank unveiled its new strategic plan with a bold goal that all hungry people across Greater Atlanta and North Georgia will have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them. In addition, the Food Bank got a new look to reflect the future and focus on healthy food.

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Kyle Waide, Atlanta Community Food Bank President and CEO on NonProfits Radio

Kyle Waide, President and CEO
Atlanta Community Food Bank

As President and CEO of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Kyle Waide oversees the distribution of nearly 70 million pounds of food and grocery products each year through a network of 600 local and regional partner nonprofit organizations that feed those in need across 29 Georgia counties.

Prior to being named CEO in Atlanta community food bank moving of 2015, Waide served for three years as the Food Bank’s Vice President of Partner Operations, leading the organization to record-breaking years of food distribution to the hungry. Through Waide’s collaborative efforts to improve distribution best practices, the Food Bank dramatically increased the nutritional quality atlanta community food bank moving its product offerings, including fresh produce.

Currently the Food Bank distributes more than 14 million pounds of produce each year. Prior to joining the Food Bank, Waide held several management roles at The Home Depot Inc. in disaster relief, corporate responsibility, community affairs and store operations. He also previously served as part of the management team that created and launched Charity Navigator, the nation’s premier charity evaluation service. Waide is a graduate of Harvard University and serves as the Chair of the Southeast Regional Cooperative, the Vice Chair of the Georgia Food Bank Association and is a member of the Ending Hunger Advisory Committee and the Policy, Atlanta community food bank moving and Advocacy Committee for Feeding America. In our local community, Waide is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2015, the Rotary Club of Atlanta, the Community Advisory Board for The Junior League of Atlanta, Inc., the Super Bowl LIII Host Committee Advisory Board and the Committee For A Better Atlanta. Waide resides in Decatur with his wife, Christina, and their three children.

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1. The Atlanta Community Food Bank + their vision, mission and Bold Goal. The Atlanta Community Food Bank distributes enough food for over 60 million meals each year and distributes to more than 600 nonprofit partner agencies serving families and individuals in 29 metro Atlanta and north Georgia counties.

2. Every day, one in seven Georgians struggle with hunger. We are asking you to join us in supporting the Atlanta Community Food Bank today to make a donation, visit acfb.org

3. The Atlanta Community Food Bank’s strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency has earned another 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. The 4-star rating is the highest grade awarded by Charity Navigator. For eight consecutive years, the Food Bank has earned 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator.

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Other details about the Food Bank’s service area – 1 in 7 Georgians struggles with hunger in metro Atlanta and north Georgia. These folks include children, seniors, and hardworking families. Each year, an estimated 755,400 (or 1 in 7) people in metro Atlanta and north Georgia turn to Food Bank partner agencies for food. Clients visit agencies an average of 8 times a year.

Web Site / Linkedin / Social Media Links:
http://www.acfb.org
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