Brian Greene
President/CEO
First and Foremost…
Thank you!
For your commitment
For your patience
A Map Of America's Future:
Where Growth Will Be Over
The Next Decade
By 2023, Houston will be
widely acknowledged as
America’s next great
global city.
Some Are Left Behind
Texas food insecurity up 1%
Now 18.4%
1 in 4 children are food insecure
66,000 people are hungry on a
typical day
Thanks To You…
137,000 people are fed weekly
New data in early 2014 from the
Hunger Study
875 clients interviewed
90 agency locations
Mission
Leading the fight
against hunger
Vision
Food access for all
Strategic Goals
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Quantity
Capacity and efficiency
Social services
Child hunger
Customer service
Allocation Priorities
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
More nutritious food
More food per person
Client choice
Evening, weekend hours
Link to social services
Provide social services
Allocation for Change
Board committee
Use food to help break the cycle of
poverty by adding social services to
food distribution
Agency Assessments
Tier system
Evaluate agencies based on
allocation priorities
Determine who gets additional food
based on social service provision
Measurement System
Based on estimated dollar value
of outcomes
e.g., the amount of money clients
save by receiving free food that
can be used to buy other necessities
Creative Partnerships
New
Including non-traditional agencies
Existing
Brighter Bites
SER Jobs for Progress
Client Choice Pantry Partners
Pantries + high impact programs
e.g., Project Grad
Encourage existing partners to
transition
Collaborative Partnerships
Regional collaboratives with
specific focus areas
e.g., job readiness, housing
Strategic Goal One
Distribute 100M nutritious meals
and 2.48M pounds non-food items
annually by 2018.
64M in FY13
FY14 Goal: 69.7M
What’s Nutritious?
YES!
NO!
Nutritious Meals
÷ 1.2
+ SNAP meal equivalents
SNAP Meal Equivalents
Factors
Approval rate (70.3%)
Avg benefit ($297/application)
Avg certification period (9.5 mos.)
Local economic impact ($1 = $1.79)
Non-Food
1.8M lbs FY13
FY 14 goal: xx lbs
Terence Franklin
Director, Agency Services
Strategic Goal Two
Build agency capacity and efficiency
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Larger quantities nutritious foods
More meals per person
Client choice
Open evenings, weekends
Guidelines for New Agencies
Pantries
Open 3 times per month
Once during evenings or weekends
Once with social services
Guidelines for New Agencies
Mobile Units Only
With social services
Build Your Capacity
Mobiles and social services
e.g., health insurance sign-up
Infrastructure Grants
Year Three
Applications available early October
Reach-in or walk-in freezers, coolers
Award letters early 2014
Retail Pick-up
242 stores
Red Barrel
Nearly 70 agency partners
Client Choice
Emergency Food Pantry
For working families
Individuals
Employed
June
2,933
70%
July
4,794
71%
August
5,404
76%