Abington Foundation Application



Abington Foundation Application

Organization Information

Organization Name Cleveland Foodbank Inc.

Address 15500 Waterloo Road

City Cleveland

State Ohio

Zip Code 44110

Phone 216-xxx-xxxx

Website

Federal Tax ID xx xxxxxxx

Tax Status 501 (c)(3)

Organization Background

Provide the mission and a brief history of the organization, including the year it was founded and how it has evolved since it was founded.

Established in 1979, the Cleveland Foodbank's mission is to alleviate hunger by providing food and support to community organizations that feed the hungry. The Foodbank operates a food distribution center where fresh and nonperishable food is delivered, repackaged and inventoried. We either distribute that food to local hunger centers to be prepared by their staff or the family that receives it or as prepared meals to hunger centers that serve complete meals to their clients. In the Foodbank's first year, we distributed 400,000 pounds of food to 100 hunger relief organizations. We now serve over 480 hot meal programs, food pantries, children's programs and other nonprofit agencies in Cuyahoga, Richland, Ashland, Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula Counties. In FY2009, we distributed 27.3 million pounds of food, a 26% increase over the previous year. The Foodbank has also taken a leadership role in streamlining the local hunger system, completing a merger with Food Rescue of Northeast Ohio in 2001 and the Greater Cleveland Committee on Hunger in 2003. We are currently seeking ways to foster closer collaboration with the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland.

Staff Information

How many staff members do you have in each of these categories: full-time, part-time, interns and volunteers?

The Cleveland Foodbank currently has 80 full-time staff members. Two of these are seasonal, helping in the development department from November 2009 through June 2010. We operate a robust volunteer program, engaging over 10,000 different volunteers in our work annually.

Programs and Services

Without repeating the information in the Organization Background field, list the organization’s programs, along with a brief description and number served in each during the last fiscal year. For example, XYZ operates the following programs (with 2009 service figures):

• child care-full day program for infants and toddlers 6 weeks to 5 years (40 served)

• senior lunch program-congregate meals and activities 5 days a week (120 served)

• community garden-planted and maintained by seniors and teens (50 participated)

(250 word limit)

The Cleveland Foodbank operates the following programs (FY2009 figures):

• Cleveland Community Kitchen--uses donated food to provide complete meals to hot meal programs and other organizations that do not have the resources or staff to prepare meals on site (5,000 meals per day)

• Kids Cafes--in partnership with local community organizations, provides daily hot meal and nutrition education to at-risk youth (1,985 meals per week)

• Summer Feeding Programs--provides meals to at-risk youth during summer months when they lack access to free meal programs through school (4,335 meals per week)

• BackPacks for Kids--provides food to low-income children at the end of the week to travel home discreetly in a back pack for use over the weekend when they have access to fewer resources (1,421 backpacks per week)

• Mobile Pantry Initiative--a food pantry on wheels that, on a regularly scheduled day and time, distributes a three day supply of food to individuals in need in underserved communities (840 households per month)

• Agency Academy--provides training in best practices for member agency staff to build their capacity to serve clients (715 participants in FY2009)

• Fresh Produce Initiative--provides fresh fruits and vegetables to local hunger centers and residents in low-income housing facilities (7,181,072 pounds of produce distributed to 139 sites in FY2009).

Client Demographic Information

The information in this section should be reflective of the total clients served by the organization. First enter the total number of clients served and then enter the percentage of clients served in each category. Enter whole numbers only and do not enter a % sign with the number. If you do not have a percentage to enter for the category, enter 0.

Fiscal year for Data (start date)

Provide the start date for the fiscal year for the client data provided below

October 01, 2008

Fiscal year for Data (end date)

Provide the end date for the fiscal year for the client data provided below

September 30, 2009

Total number of clients served

List the total number of clients served by the organization during the fiscal year entered above. Enter a whole number, not a range.

223,700

Percentage African American 74

Percentage Asian 3

Percentage Caucasian 17

Percentage Hispanic/Latino 3

Percentage Native American 2

Percentage categorized as other 1

Total

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Percentage female

Whole number only, no percentage 62

Percentage male

Whole number only, no percentage 38

Percentage of low income clients served

If you collect income information about your clients, give the percentage of clients served that are below 150% of federal poverty level based on the health and Human Services Poverty guidelines. Whole numbers only, no percentage. If your organization does not collect this information, enter zero here.

100

Description of Clients Served

Provide any other detailed information not reflected in the numbers above about the population you server.

Contact Information

Executive Director/President/CEO

Prefix

Example: Mr., Ms. Ms.

First Name Anne

Last Name Goodman

Title President and CEO

Office Phone 216-xxx-xxxx

Extension

E-Mail xxxxx@

Primary Contact for Request

Same as above

Prefix: Ms.

First Name Julie

Last Name Simmonds

Title Director of Fundraising

Office Phone 216-xxx-xxxx

E-mail xxxxxx@

Request Information

Request Amount

Whole numbers only 20,000

Type of Support Project

Project/Program Title

Please briefly describe your project/program in 10 words or less. You will have an opportunity to fully describe your project below. Examples; to provide counseling services to teens; to increase capacity at the health clinic; for a job training program for low-skilled individuals

Fresh Produce Initiative, distributing nutritious food to families in need

Project Start Date October 01, 2009

Project End Date September 30, 2010

Length of grant

(in whole months) 12

Project Description

Please summarize the overall program/project to be funded by this grant, including the number of clients served.

Through the Fresh Produce Initiative, we provide fresh fruits and vegetables, the most nutritious foods we have available, to individuals and families in need. Their limited financial resources, which might otherwise be used to purchase nutritious food, are often used for rent, medicine, or other necessary expenses, forcing them to settle for inexpensive foods that are high in calories and low in nutritional value. They risk creating an ongoing cycle of poor health and nutrition. We distribute fresh produce through free Farmer's Markets, through which we partner with a member agency and bring free fresh produce to their outdoor site on a regular schedule. We also make regular weekly deliveries of produce to member agencies including low-income housing sites, senior high rises and community centers. Our Mobile Pantries--essentially a food pantry on wheels--also bring produce to underserved communities on a regular basis. We make fresh produce available on our daily inventory of available food items and for pickup on site. The Foodbank focuses on distributing produce to residents in urban neighborhoods, which often lack grocery stores that carry a variety of produce, as well as rural areas that do not have adequate hunger relief resources.

Goals and Objectives

List the goals and objectives for the program/project, i.e., what do you hope to achieve? Select the three most significant and enter them into the fields below.

1. Goal/Objective

Increase our distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables from 7,181,072 pounds in FY2009 to 7,836,207 pounds in FY2010.

2. Goal/Objective

Expand the reach and effectiveness of our free Farmers Markets by increasing the number of Farmers Markets we operate and expand the training we offer to our partner sites.

3. Goal/Objective

Expand our efforts to educate member agencies regarding the nutritional value of fresh fruits and vegetables, to increase their distribution of fresh foods.

Activities

List the activities for the program/project, i.e., what will you do? Please be specific and include numbers to be served, services provided, locations and timeframe.

In FY2010, we are working to increase our distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables in a variety of ways. We completed GIS mapping of our service area and are analyzing the results to identify new locations for Farmers Markets this summer, prioritizing underserved areas in need, and developing efficient delivery routes to maximize our distribution. This year, we will also increase our training for community partners that will serve as produce distribution sites. We will conduct an informational session for agencies wishing to start new Farmers Markets, at least one site visit to all existing Farmers Markets during the summer, and hold training sessions for all volunteers on site for new Farmers Markets. We will seed 60 sites, up from 46 in FY2009, by the end of September.

We will also educate our partners to help them overcome cultural barriers that prevent them from selecting produce for their clients. We will host a Growing Solutions to Hunger session, which provides an overview of how to start and maintain an agency garden. We are currently working with a consultant to update the Foodbank's website, which will feature an agency resource section. This will include a number of resources for our member agencies, including recipes on storing and preparing the produce we have to offer to increase their distribution of fresh foods to their clients.

Outcomes

List the outcomes you hope to achieve with the program/project, i.e., how will you measure success? Please be specific, including what staff, tools or other resources will be used to measure outcomes.

The primary goal of our FPI is to increase our distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables to individuals and families in need, prioritizing underserved communities that lack access to fresh foods. We intend to hold 300 distributions through the Farmers Market program by September 30 and to seed those in all six of the counties we serve. By the end of the year, we will see at least a 9% increase in our produce distribution.

We track our produce distribution monthly via our organization dashboard, a two-page report that contains information about the number of pounds and nutritional quality of foods donated and distributed, and the funds we raise to help cover our expenses. Agency Services staff will also track the growth of Farmers Markets and maintain statistics on the number of distributions held. We will also hold an agency feedback session to gather information on the FPI and make improvements as needed.

Evidence of Success

What data or evidence suggests that this approach will be effective? Responses may include information about numbers or clients served in the past by this program/project, use of best practices, evaluation data, or organization or program accomplishments.

The Cleveland Foodbank is the leading hunger relief organization in our six county service territory, and is part of a national network of food banks coordinated by Feeding America, through which we receive guidance and share best practices to continually improve our hunger relief efforts. Our produce program has been growing steadily year-to-year since we took on its operation after the merger with Food Rescue in 2001, and since our move to our new facility, we have grown the program by 133% since FY2005. Over the last two years, developing our Farmers Market distributions have been a main focus for the Foodbank, and they have greatly increased the efficiency of our produce distribution. Previously, our produce distribution entailed a Foodbank truck dropping off a couple of cases of produce to over 100 different feeding programs weekly to distribute to their clients. This took our fleet all over Cuyahoga County and outlying communities, and our distribution was limited to the amount of produce a member agency could store until their service days. Our Farmers Markets improved our efficiency, enabling us to make large loads of produce available to entire neighborhoods at one distribution. Clients have direct access to the produce we distribute, allowing them to choose what their families would eat from the great variety we have available at no cost to them. This has worked well, as it has increased client access to the produce we have donated and allows us to move these highly-perishable foods more quickly.

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