Senior Programs

Seniors

NTFB partners with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to facilitate the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP, also known locally as People and Nutrition/PAN) for older adults. NTFB and its partners feed over 7,000 seniors monthly. Seniors receive a monthly shelf stable box of pantry staple foods and a block of refrigerated cheese. When available, produce bags are also provided.

To be eligible for the CSFP Program, older adults must be 60+ years of age and at 130% of the poverty level. See the Senior Programs page for more income details, participants do not need to provide documentation of income and can simply self-declare their income. Citizenship is not a requirement of participation, but a government ID must be provided for program enrollment. The program is free for seniors and open to any eligible participant residing within NTFB’s 12 counties – Dallas, Collin, Grayson, Fannin, Lamar, Hunt, Delta, Hopkins, Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Navarro. Please Note: Because of TDA policy, there is sometimes a waitlist for participants.

Criteria

  1. Organizations with a 501c3 status can partner with NTFB to store and distribute CSFP food.
  2. There is no fee to be a distribution partner, but partners must have clean/secure food storage, cold food storage, access to low-income older neighbors, appropriate staffing or volunteers to facilitate distributions without NTFB staff onsite, Wi-Fi to utilize NTFB’s Link2Feed.com intake system, distributions open to the public, and complete training logs for annual compliance visits.

Organizations or corporate entities without a 501c3 can also support CSFP in the community by acting as proxies for older adults who don’t have transportation or providing volunteer support at existing CSFP distributions, among other support activities.

Our team can be contacted at CSFPTeam@ntfb.org.