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1 Hope United Methodist Church 1108 Steel Road Havertown, PA 19083 Gigi Tevlin-Moffat Director Narberth Community Food Bank

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3  Unemployment rate: 8.1%  Food insecurity rate: 12.5% Child food insecurity rate: 20.3%  Poverty rate:12.4% Child poverty rate: 17.3%

4  Identify community need  Clarify response to need  Type of pantry  Guidelines, expectations, policies  Community awareness, outreach  Volunteers  Resources  Funding

5 Meals Groceries Clothing Training and education Other gaps in public services

6  Shopping pantry  Shopping list pantry

7  Establish hours Define emergency responses (outside established hours)  Guest Sign-In (image)

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9  Example: no cash gifts, but provide access to community representatives (utilities)  Frequency of non-food items  Office hours and documentation

10  Recruit outward from your organization  Reach out to political leadership  Local religious institutions  Local public and private schools and universities  Local businesses  Community groups (Lions, Rotary, etc.)  Publicity (local paper, civic association, social media)

11  Take every volunteer  Find their niche  Flexible about hours (set up, clean up, office hours, deliveries, outreach)

12  Local generosity, while sincere, can experience fatigue  External funding will become necessary  Balance sheet: resources in vs. expenditures out  Pros/cons of becoming a separate 501c3

13  Community Action Agency of Delaware Country (http://www.caadc.org/)http://www.caadc.org/

14  Darby District 845 Main Street Darby, PA 19023 Phone: 610-461-3800 FAX: 610-461-3900 LIHEAP 610-447-3099

15  Delco Interfaith Food Assistance Network (http://www.co.delaware.pa.us/humanse rvices/emgfood.html)http://www.co.delaware.pa.us/humanse rvices/emgfood.html Many other resources at the country site above  Philabundance (www.philabundance.org/ ‎ )  Local and state grants

16  Recap


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