Food Bank Of Northern Nevada

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Cherie Jamason, President and CEO of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, has been awarded the prestigious 2005 Dick Goebel Public Service Award for outstanding commitment to ending hunger in her community and across the country from America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network. The award was presented to Jamason at the 2005 National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference, a gathering in Washington D.C. of more than 450 anti-hunger advocates, sponsored by America’s Second Harvest and the Food Research Action Center (FRAC).Incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the Food Bank is a food distribution and support system for more than 80 different direct service, non-profit agencies serving the needy, the ill, the elderly and children. Last year, the Food Bank distributed more than 3 million pounds of food to more than 80 member agencies. This food, valued at more than $4.5 million, fed more than 58,000 people. Emergency food programs provided groceries to about 45,303 people in 2004. Two thirds of the people we serve are either under age 18 or over age 65 - people for whom employment is not an option - the most vulnerable members of our society. Eighty-five percent of the food collected by The Food Bank is distributed to families of the working poor and elderly. Residents of the community constitute 89 percent of agency clients.Our partner agencies include emergency food pantries and senior meal programs, sliding fee scale day care centers, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, family and domestic violence shelters and various youth programs -- all of which include meals or snacks in the programs or service.

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