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December 11, 2007
North Texas Food Bank and Tarrant Area Food Bank to receive $200,000 of $1 million grant to regional Texas food banks
For second year, Beaumont Foundation of America awards $1 million to the Texas members of America’s Second Harvest
FORT WORTH, TX (December 11, 2007) – The Beaumont Foundation of America based in Beaumont, Texas, will award Tarrant Area Food Bank and North Texas Food Bank each $100,000 to provide food assistance in north Texas.
The grant awards will be presented Thursday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. at North Texas Food Bank, 4500 S. Cockrell Hill Rd., Dallas, TX 75236. Special guests will include Frank Newton, CEO, Beaumont Foundation of America, and State Rep. Yvonne Davis (D-Dallas). Present to accept the grant awards will be Jan Pruitt, CEO, North Texas Food Bank, and Bo Soderbergh, executive director, Tarrant Area Food Bank, accompanied by Jenny Moore, president, Tarrant Area Food Bank board of directors.
The grants to North Texas Food Bank and Tarrant Area Food Bank are part of a total $1 million the foundation is dispersing to the 18 regional food banks in Texas that are affiliates of America’s Second Harvest—The Nation’s Food Bank Network. The grants will help each organization expand its capacity to access and provide food to more of the Texans in need of food assistance.
“At Tarrant Area Food Bank,” Soderbergh said, “this generous grant from the Beaumont Foundation will enable us to expand our Community Kitchen to utilize rescued fresh foods and increase the number of meals we can produce for our Kids Cafe feeding program.”
“Here at North Texas Food Bank we are deeply grateful to the Beaumont Foundation for their loyal and generous support,” Pruitt said. “Their gift of $100,000 comes at a time of great need when demand is up 17%. On behalf of all those who face hunger in North Texas, we thank you."
The Beaumont Foundation grant to Texas food banks comes at a time when Texas has the third highest percentage of hungry households (16 percent) and the highest rate of hungry children (24 percent) in the nation. The rate of hungry households is according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on household food security. The rate of childhood hunger is from a newly released study based on the USDA household food security report and sponsored by America’s Second Harvest - The Nation’s Food Bank Network and The ConAgra Foods Foundation.
Together, North Texas Food Bank and Tarrant Area Food Bank provide food to hunger-relief charities in 25 counties of the greater Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. This network of more than 1,100 feeding programs includes emergency food pantries and group meals and/or snacks at senior centers, emergency shelters, low-income daycare facilities, Kids Cafes, and other social service centers. Last year, the two food banks distributed food that provided emergency groceries for 88,000 families and 1 million meals and snacks at feeding sites.
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK (NTFB), a member of America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network, is a nonprofit center for food distribution that procures donated surplus food and transfers it in usable quantities to 764 feeding and education programs in 13 North Texas counties. Last year, 32 million pounds of food were distributed. Each month, agency pantries distributed food to more than 43,000 families, and on-site meal programs served 410,000 meals/snacks. To learn more visit www.ntxfoodbank.org.
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK, founded in 1982 in Fort Worth, serves the counties of Tarrant, Johnson, Parker, Denton, Wise, Cooke, Palo Pinto, Erath, Hood, Somervell, Hamilton, Bosque and Hill. The food bank also sponsors two feeding programs for children—Kids Cafe and BackPacks for Kids, runs a culinary job-training program for low-income adults in its Community Kitchen and provides nutrition education for individuals and families receiving food assistance. Tarrant Area Food Bank is ranked one of the Best in America by Independent Charities of America and meets Better Business Bureau standards for charitable accountability. For more information, visit us at www.tafb.org , or call 817-332-9177.
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North Texas Food Bank
4500 S. Cockrell Hill Road
Dallas, TX 75236 - 2028
CONTACTS:
Colleen Townsley Brinkmann
North Texas Food Bank
Chief Marketing Officer
Office (214) 347-9594
colleen@ntfb.org
Tarrant Area Food Bank
Andrea Helms
817-332-9177, ext. 120
817-657-9175 (cell)
Beaumont Foundation of America,
W. Frank Newton, CEO
C. Edward Keller, COO
1-866-546-2667
