OUR PARTNERS

Tarrant Area Food Bank depends on community support to fight hunger. Corporations, foundations, churches, small businesses, clubs, and government organizations all contribute the volunteers, food, and funds the Food Bank needs to distribute food to 300 hunger-relief charities each month. While we cannot adequately thank all of the organizations that make the Food Bank’s work possible, below is a small sample of recent donors.

Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, Bank of America Trustee

The Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust made its first gift to Tarrant Area Food Bank in 1991 to help pay for our current warehouse. Since then, the Trust and Bank of America have been consistent partners in the fight against hunger, providing money for food and supporting events such as Empty Bowls which, thanks to the Trust’s support, raised more than 834,000 meals in February 2010.

The Sid W. Richardson Foundation gave one of the first gifts to establish the Food Bank in 1982. Since then, the Foundation has helped purchase a new warehouse, renovate the warehouse, provide emergency food, enhance distribution, and most recently to establish a new Community Kitchen. While these gifts total more than $1 million, the food they have helped provide neighbors in need is more valuable than that.

Alcon is not only committed to eye care, they are committed to the fight against hunger. Since 1985, Alcon Foundation donations have contributed more than 800,000 meals to the fight against hunger while employees have also participated in food drives and volunteered in the Food Bank’s quality control room. During 2010, Alcon employees raised nearly $28,000, equivalent to nearly 111,000 meals worth of food.

Bank of America provided funds in 2010 equivalent to 100,000 meals worth of food.  The year before, 4,600 employees in Tarrant County skipped lunch and donated their lunch money to Tarrant Area Food Bank. The effort, called “Let’s Not Do Lunch,” raised enough money to provide 40,000 meals to the community. That same day the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, recognizing the dramatic increase in the need for food, presented Tarrant Area Food Bank a $100,000 Safety Net grant.

The Morris Foundation

In December 2010, The Morris Foundation gave Tarrant Area Food Bank $65,000, which will help provide 260,000 meals to our partner agencies. Since 1995, The Morris Foundation has been one of the Food Bank’s most consistent donors, providing more than $340,000 to the fight against hunger in Tarrant and surrounding counties.

Exelon Power continued their support of the BackPacks for Kids program in 2010 with a grant of $10,000. Since 2008, their gifts have provided more than 2,600 packs of weekend food to children in the Food Bank’s 13-county service area. Exelon has also been an active partner in the fight against hunger by supporting Food Bank events since 2006.

In August, Dannon awarded its second $30,000 Next Generation Nutrition Grant to the Food Bank’s Operation Frontline nutrition education program. This grant has helped Tarrant Area Food Bank teach low-income families how to prepare the most nutritious meals possible on a limited income. Dannon has been a long-time supporter of Tarrant Area Food Bank, donating yogurt and sponsoring events as well as sending employees to volunteer sorting, inspecting, and repackaging food and holding food drives. The Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant program supports childhood nutrition education.

XTO Energy has committed $75,000 over the past three years to feeding children through the BackPacks for Kids program. During that time their donation has helped provide roughly 15,000 packs of weekend food to children who otherwise would not get enough to eat. In addition to food for kids, XTO Energy has been an Empty Bowls sponsor five times, volunteered in the Food Bank’s quality control room, and consistently held food drives since 1995.

Rees-Jones Foundation

Over the past two years The Rees-Jones Foundation has contributed more than $100,000 to feeding hungry North Texans through the Tarrant Area Food Bank, supporting both the BackPacks for Kids program and Kids Café. In August 2008, as food and fuel prices spiked, The Rees-Jones Foundation responded with a $25,000 emergency food and fuel grant, which provided much needed resources during a lean summer.

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