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.

Kroger

Kroger is supporting the Food Bank’s BackPacks for Kids program this year with a $25,000 gift. An integral partner in the fight against hunger for more than a decade, Kroger has donated more than $250,000 to Tarrant Area Food Bank since 1995. Last year Kroger joined the Store Donation Program with 25 stores donating food each week to the Food Bank. They also contributed to construction of the Food Bank’s new Community Kitchen. Kroger’s annual Bringing Hope to the Table campaign has raised more than $78,000 during the past three years. Kroger is a participating sponsor of Souper Bowl of Caring and for the past three years has been the corporate sponsor for the National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger! food drive, which has provided the Food Bank more than 730,000 pounds of food over the past three years.

Tarrant County Employees

Tarrant County employees raised $27,568 in September for the purchase of 4,000 turkeys to be distributed to hunger-relief charities during the holidays. We don’t have room to list all of the things Tarrant County employees have done over the years to fight hunger, but a short list would include food drives (last year, in addition to turkeys, they held a peanut butter drive), organizing and participating in Kick the Can, stuffing backpacks with food, and serving soups and desserts at our annual Empty Bowls event. Tarrant County employees have been key supporters of the Food Bank since its inception in 1982.

Lockheed Martin AERO Club

The Lockheed Martin AERO Club contributed $55,817 to the fight against hunger in August. The AERO Club (Aeronautics Employees Reaching Out) is one of the many ways Lockheed and its employees give back to the community. Lockheed employees also inspect and sort food for the Food Bank and hold food drives on a regular basis. Formerly known as the Con-Trib Club, the AERO Club has donated more than $550,000 to Tarrant Area Food Bank over the past 27 years.

City of Fort Worth

The City of Fort Worth food drive this summer brought in 203,693 pounds of food. City employees hold one of the largest food drives each year and have done so since 1982. Over the past four years city employees have raised 913,676 pounds of food, and have done so with energy and enthusiasm. Departments compete against each other to raise the most food, and this year Environmental Management took top honors, bringing in an average of 637 pounds per employee.

Walmart

Tarrant Area Food Bank received a new 24-foot refrigerated truck in November thanks to a generous $3 million gift from the Walmart Foundation to Feeding America. The gift provided the Feeding America network with 35 trucks, for which food banks were invited to apply through a competitive grant process. The new truck, dubbed “Wally,” will help pick up food from grocery partners. Walmart donates more than 100,000 pounds of food each month to Tarrant Area Food Bank through the Store Donation Program. They also support the Food Bank’s Community Kitchen and BackPacks for Kids programs.

Junior League of Fort Worth

The Junior League of Fort Worth is a partner this year with two Food Bank programs: Community Kitchen and Operation Frontline. In July the Junior League presented the Food Bank a check for $58,000 to support both programs. The League has committed 10 volunteers this year to Operation Frontline, our nutrition education program that uses cooking classes to teach low-income families how to prepare the most nutritious meals possible on a limited budget. League volunteers have also inspected, sorted, and packaged food and helped prepare meals in the Community Kitchen. League volunteers continue to play an integral role in the fight against hunger, just as they did when the Food Bank was established in 1982.