North Texas Food Bank

In fy22, North Texas Food Bank (ntfb) distributed roughly 136 million meals through a diverse network of over 400 feeding partners that provide Food assistance and other wraparound services, helping neighbors in need find Food assistance programs and make a lasting change to address the underlying barriers to Food security. Generous contributions of Food products, funds and volunteer service support multiple programs of the North Texas Food Bank. These programs benefit approximately 1,000 feeding and education locations in 13 North Texas counties, including Food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, after school programs, senior citizen centers, and other social service centers. These feeding partners receive Food from the Food Bank and distribute it to North texans in need through their pantry and on-site meal programs.

The Food 4 kids program feeds hungry students when they are the most vulnerable on the weekends when school feeding programs are closed. Food 4 kids provides children with backpacks of nutritious Food every friday throughout the school year. Each backpack contains kid-friendly snacks carefully selected by our nutrition services manager to provide two-thirds of a child's weekend nutritional needs. In the 2021-2022 school year, Food 4 kids operated in over 300 schools and provided 11,223 children with 296,000 backpacks, the equivalent of roughly 1.1 million meals. After participating in Food for kids, children improved significantly on these measures: exhibited fewer behaviors associated with Food insecurity, talked less frequently about issues related to Food insecurity, were judged to be more emotionally healthy, and performed better academically.

The first commodity supplemental Food program (known locally as people and nutrition, or pan) provides monthly Food packages to low-income senior citizens who meet certain requirements. In 2022, roughly 7,100 participants received monthly an estimated 32 pounds of usda commodities at over 100 pan distribution sites in dallas, collin, delta, denton, ellis, fannin, grayson, hopkins, hunt, kaufman lamar and navarro counties. Pan is a partnership of the u.s. department of agriculture, Texas department of agriculture and ntfb.

The school pantry program provides

Eligible students and their families

Access to non-perishable items, as

Well as fresh produce, through

Participating schools. Distributions

Occur once a month, typically after

School. Students who visit the

School pantry leave with 20-25 pounds

Of shelf-stable Food items and 15

Pounds of produce.

School pantry programs operate in

Schools with at least 90% of

Students qualifying for free/reduced

Meals, within close-knit neighborhoods.

In the 2021-2022 school year,

Provided 1.7 million meals through

This program.