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

Leading the fight against hunger Mission Leading the fight against hunger

Vision Food access for all

Strategic Goals 1. Quantity 2. Capacity and efficiency 3. Social services 4. Child hunger 5. Customer service

Allocation Priorities 1. More nutritious food 2. More food per person 3. Client choice 4. Evening, weekend hours 5. Link to social services 6. 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 64M in FY13 FY14 Goal: 69.7M 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

Director, Agency Services Terence Franklin Director, Agency Services

Strategic Goal Two Build agency capacity and efficiency 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 Individuals Employed June 2,933 For working families Individuals Employed June 2,933 70% July 4,794 71% August 5,404 76%