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2 Brian Greene President/CEO

3 First and Foremost… Thank you! For your commitment For your patience

4 A Map Of America's Future: Where Growth Will Be Over The Next DecadeBy 2023, Houston will be widely acknowledged as America’s next great global city.

5 Some Are Left Behind Texas food insecurity up 1%Now 18.4% 1 in 4 children are food insecure 66,000 people are hungry on a typical day

6 Thanks To You… 137,000 people are fed weeklyNew data in early 2014 from the Hunger Study 875 clients interviewed 90 agency locations

7 Leading the fight against hungerMission Leading the fight against hunger

8 Vision Food access for all

9 Strategic Goals 1. Quantity 2. Capacity and efficiency 3. Social services 4. Child hunger 5. Customer service

10 Allocation Priorities1. More nutritious food 2. More food per person 3. Client choice 4. Evening, weekend hours 5. Link to social services 6. Provide social services

11 Allocation for Change Board committeeUse food to help break the cycle of poverty by adding social services to food distribution

12 Agency Assessments Tier systemEvaluate agencies based on allocation priorities Determine who gets additional food based on social service provision

13 Measurement System Based on estimated dollar value of outcomese.g., the amount of money clients save by receiving free food that can be used to buy other necessities

14 Creative PartnershipsNew Including non-traditional agencies Existing Brighter Bites SER Jobs for Progress

15 Client Choice Pantry PartnersPantries + high impact programs e.g., Project Grad Encourage existing partners to transition

16 Collaborative PartnershipsRegional collaboratives with specific focus areas e.g., job readiness, housing

17 Strategic Goal One 64M in FY13 FY14 Goal: 69.7MDistribute 100M nutritious meals and 2.48M pounds non-food items annually by 2018. 64M in FY13 FY14 Goal: 69.7M

18 What’s Nutritious? YES! NO!

19 Nutritious Meals ÷ 1.2 + SNAP meal equivalents

20 SNAP Meal Equivalents Factors Approval rate (70.3%)Avg benefit ($297/application) Avg certification period (9.5 mos.) Local economic impact ($1 = $1.79)

21 Non-Food 1.8M lbs FY13 FY 14 goal: xx lbs

22 Director, Agency ServicesTerence Franklin Director, Agency Services

23 Strategic Goal Two Build agency capacity and efficiencyLarger quantities nutritious foods More meals per person Client choice Open evenings, weekends

24 Guidelines for New AgenciesPantries Open 3 times per month Once during evenings or weekends Once with social services

25 Guidelines for New AgenciesMobile Units Only With social services

26 Build Your Capacity Mobiles and social servicese.g., health insurance sign-up

27 Infrastructure GrantsYear Three Applications available early October Reach-in or walk-in freezers, coolers Award letters early 2014

28 Retail Pick-up 242 stores

29 Red Barrel Nearly 70 agency partners

30 Client Choice Emergency Food Pantry Individuals Employed June 2,933For working families Individuals Employed June 2,933 70% July 4,794 71% August 5,404 76%

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