2. Brian Greene
President/CEO

3. First and Foremost…
Thank you!
For your commitment
For your patience

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Thanks To You… 137,000 people are fed weekly
New data in early 2014 from the Hunger Study
875 clients interviewed 90 agency locations

7. Leading the fight against hunger
Mission
Leading the fight against hunger

8. Vision
Food access for all

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

10. 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

11. Allocation for Change Board committee
Use food to help break the cycle of poverty by adding social services to food distribution

12. Agency Assessments Tier system
Evaluate agencies based on allocation priorities
Determine who gets additional food based on social service provision

13. 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

14. Creative Partnerships
New
Including non-traditional agencies
Existing
Brighter Bites
SER Jobs for Progress

15. Client Choice Pantry Partners
Pantries + high impact programs
e.g., Project Grad
Encourage existing partners to transition

16. Collaborative Partnerships
Regional collaboratives with specific focus areas
e.g., job readiness, housing

17. 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

18. What’s Nutritious?
YES!
NO!

19. Nutritious Meals
÷ 1.2
+ SNAP meal equivalents

20. SNAP Meal Equivalents Factors Approval rate (70.3%)
Avg benefit ($297/application)
Avg certification period (9.5 mos.)
Local economic impact ($1 = $1.79)

21. Non-Food
1.8M lbs FY13
FY 14 goal: xx lbs

22. Director, Agency Services
Terence Franklin
Director, Agency Services

23. Strategic Goal Two Build agency capacity and efficiency
Larger quantities nutritious foods
More meals per person
Client choice
Open evenings, weekends

24. Guidelines for New Agencies
Pantries
Open 3 times per month
Once during evenings or weekends
Once with social services

25. Guidelines for New Agencies
Mobile Units Only
With social services

26. Build Your Capacity Mobiles and social services
e.g., health insurance sign-up

27. Infrastructure Grants
Year Three
Applications available early October
Reach-in or walk-in freezers, coolers
Award letters early 2014

28. Retail Pick-up
242 stores

29. Red Barrel
Nearly 70 agency partners

30. 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%