Food bank grant program aims to close a gap in healthy food access.

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The Food Bank and its Partner Agencies are united in the belief that anyone who needs food assistance should be able to receive help. To support our Partners in their service, the Capital Area Food Bank created a capacity building grant program to provide matching funds for the purchase of equipment to store fresh and frozen foods.  Partner Agency requests can range from a large industrial-sized walk in freezer and cooler to a smaller chest freezer.  The Food Bank awarded nearly $100,000 in capacity building grants to 27 Partner Agencies this year.

For our partners, new space for cold storage can mean more food and variety to offer their clients.

New freezer = happy chef. Thank you to @CAFBTX for making it possible! pic.twitter.com/YxKvcIK5j5

— Caritas of Austin (@caritasofaustin) August 5, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Love of Christ Food Pantry is honored to receive a donation from the Capital Area Food Bank.  Having the donated Kolpak unit will help us to provide more food for the hungry in the Temple area. Both the workers and the recipients of the Love of Christ Food Pantry thank you for your generosity.   I am overjoyed with the opportunity to help more people.  We are truly blessed.

- A. C. Blunt Director


 

This grant program helps the Food Bank close the gap between clients’ requests for more healthy fresh fruits vegetables meats and dairy and the Agency’s ability to afford to distribute these types of food safely. It also improves the Food Bank’s capacity to accept more fresh healthy foods donations.  In the last fiscal year the Food Bank rescued more than 13 million pounds of perishable food and the program continue to grow year after year.

 
 

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