<< Food Drive Tips
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DOLLAR GOES A LONG WAY
At Tarrant Area Food Bank,
A DOLLAR GOES A LONG WAY toward feeding families in need
| $1 = |
Enough resources for Tarrant Area Food Bank to provide 4 pounds of food for 3 meals |
| $12 = |
36 meals to a family headed by a low-wage worker whose earnings have been exhausted by day-care and medical expenses |
| $24 = |
6 weekend backpacks of purchased single-serving food for impoverished school children in Tarrant Area Food Bank's backpacks for Kids program |
| $56 = |
168 meals to home-bound seniors subsisting on fixed incomes |
| $112 = |
336 breakfast meals for homeless people at shelters and soup kitchens |
| $250 = |
20 hours of nutrition education from the Food Bank's Choices! program for children and adults |
| $440 = |
One agency phone line for one year |
| $546 = |
Three months of meals for eight children living in special care facilities |
| $780 = |
One digital scale for Quality Control where volunteers pack boxes with foods to be picked up by TAFB's partner agencies |
| $1,000 = |
Weekend backpacks of food for an entire school year for 7 children in the Backpacks for Kids program |
| $1,250 = |
One month's fuel for Tarrant Area Food Bank's trucks |
| $1,500 = |
Transportation for 40,000 pounds of fresh produce from the Rio Grande Valley (includes cost of value added packaging, or VAP fees) |
| $2,900 = |
One month's warehouse supplies |
| $5,000 = |
Weekend backpacks of food all school year for 35 children in the Backpacks for Kids program |
| $8,000 = |
One month's utilities for TAFB's office space and 67,000 square-foot warehouse with four house-sized refrigerators and freezers |
| $15,000 = |
One Kids Cafe for one year serving 50 children with a meal five days a week (Capital One and ConAgra are current Kids Cafe sponsors.) |
| $30,000 = |
One new forklift |
| $96,000 = |
One year's utilities |
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