Questions and Comments Brief Commentary Tammy Leonard

North Texas Food Bank Hunger Center Partnership An example of leveraging our joint expertise.

What we did Observed a puzzle: low income people eating very healthy, but reporting to shop at convenience stores. What was missing?  Non-profit food providers Partnered with NTFB to identify non-profit providers and developed new survey questions to understand food acquisition from both commercial and non-profit sources

Charitable Food Providers 38 Charitable Food Providers serving the Fair Park Neighborhood 33.5% of respondents received food from at least one pantry in the last 6 months

Charitable Food Providers 65% of those who received food from a charitable food source within the last 6 months visited: ▫Community Baptist Church ▫Child Care Group MLK ▫Peoples Missionary Baptist Church ▫Cornerstone Baptist Church ▫Good Street Baptist Church ▫Exline Park ▫Mt. Olive Lutheran Church ▫St. Luke United Methodist Church ▫Dallas Bethlehem Center ▫YMCA NTFB Member Agencies

Some Considerations… What’s next: ▫ How do the results inform what is being done locally? How can we leverage our joint expertise to inform.. ▫New questions? ▫Better interpretation of current results? ▫New solutions coupled with robust analysis?