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Annual Report 2021 Bread of Life Impact in 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2021 Bread of Life (BOL) is the premier organization serving Malden and communities north of Boston with the aim of preventing and alleviating food insecurity. BOL has typically distributed 1 million meals per year to hungry, homeless and isolated people, with 1.5 million pounds of food distributed through our programs to residents of Malden, Everett, Medford, Saugus, Stoneham, Melrose, Reading, North Reading, Winchester, Wakefield, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop. • Bread of Life food distribution doubled during COVID-19: Hundreds of volunteers and donors along with the staff of Bread of Life accomplished monumental things in 2020. They made sure friends and neighbors in thirteen communities had food on their tables in the midst of economic crisis, illness and death. Historically Bread of Life has served about 8,500 unduplicated individuals per year. With the COVID-19 crisis we have been serving two to four times as many people at a time at our food pantries and evening meals. At the start of the year, BOL was serving about 2,000 households per month, which grew to over 4,000 per month; 3,800 individuals served per month grew to 15,000 per month. Together we have been able to provide critical supports to tens of thousands of people who are struggling. • Malden Food Pantry: Bread of Life operates a food pantry in Malden that, pre-COVID, served residents from 10 communities: Malden, Everett, Medford, Saugus, Stoneham, Melrose, Wakefield, Reading, North Reading and Winchester. During COVID-19, Bread of Life converted the pantry to a weekly outdoors grab ‘n go distribution, serving residents from any community. The pantry provides a full grocery order of fresh produce, meats/fish, dairy and bakery products and nonperishable/dry goods. The number of households served has increased from an average of 90 per distribution pre-COVID to an average of 300 per distribution, with numbers peaking at about 350 in November 2020. • Everett Food Pantry/Mobile Market: Bread of Life operates a food pantry for Everett residents only, which was held twice monthly at Everett City Hall pre-COVID. During COVID-19, Bread of Life converted the Everett pantry to a weekly grab ‘n go mobile market at the Lafayette School, for drive-thru or walk-up distribution serving an average of 175 families per week as of September 2020, four times the number we served pre-COVID. • Everett Backpack Nutrition Program: Bread of Life has been collaborating since November 2019 with the Everett Public Schools to operate a Backpack Nutrition Program that distributes backpacks full of food to Everett students. Pre-COVID, BOL distributed an average of 140 backpacks per month though the High School and Whittier School principals and guidance counselors who identified students in need. During COVID-19, Bread of Life began to distribute 200 backpacks per month in conjunction with the outdoor school lunch distribution at the Whittier School. With e-Learning Centers instituted at the start of the 2020-2021 school year, BOL began distributing 200 backpacks per month though school personnel at the Whittier School, Keverian School, Parlin School, Everett High School and the high-needs student group. This program is funded by The Foundation Trust. In addition, East Boston Savings bank donated over 600 backpacks. • Evening Meals: Bread of Life serves a free evening meal Tuesday through Friday evenings at the First Baptist Church in Malden, open to all from any community. During COVID-19, Bread of Life converted the meal to an outdoor grab ‘n go meal distribution. The number of meals we distribute per night has increased from 80 pre-COVID to 120-140 per night as of December 2020. We also collaborated with Malden Neighbors Helping Neighbors, which supplied voluteers to deliver meals to elderly, homeless and isolated residents. • Grocery Delivery Program: Due to COVID-19, Bread of Life initiated the Grocery Delivery Program in March 2020 to deliver groceries door-to-door to senior citizens, disabled individuals and COVID-isolating families on a monthly or weekly basis utilizing volunteers to pack food and make deliveries. This program has served residents of Malden, Everett, Medford, Saugus, Stoneham, Melrose, Wakefield, N. Reading, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop. In June 2020, collaborating with Mystic Valley Elder Services and the Malden Housing Authority, we were able to expand the program to serve clients of MVES living in private residences or certain Malden and Melrose senior housing developments (630 Salem, 557 Pleasant, 89 Pearl, Forestdale, Suffolk Manor, 1 Nason Drive, 910 Main.) In this way, we were able partially to replace our Senior Nutrition Outreach program which we had run since 2008 with MVES and which we had been unable to operate due to COVID concerns. The Grocery Delivery Program has been delivering 250-300 grocery orders per week as of December 2020. • Motel Outreach: Bread of Life continued throughout 2020 to deliver groceries and meals weekly to homeless families in two motels, serving an average of 48 people per week. In late November, homeless individuals began to be placed at one of the motels, increasing the number we served to 62 people per week. At the start of 2021 Housing Families Inc (HFI) was funded to begin a shelter program for homeless individuals from Malden and surrounding cities utilizing another hotel. Bread of Life was chosen as the food delivery provider for this shelter. In February we began delivering meals and groceries to serve 20 individuals per week, which is full occupancy of the shelter. • Bread of Life is a Strategic Partner of the Greater Boston Food Bank: BOL is in the top 10% of GBFB member agencies, distributing 631,761 pounds of food from the GBFB from October 2018 to September 2019, 45% of which was fresh produce. • Gateway Cities: Four of the cities we serve, Malden, Everett, Chelsea and Revere, are Gateway Cities facing social and economic challenges including lack of good jobs. • Food Deserts: Low household income, lack of accessibility to sources of healthy food, and lack of vehicle access contribute to creating “food deserts.” According to the US Dept. of Agriculture Food Access Research Atlas, maintained by the Economic Research Service, several communities served by BOL have census tracts that are both low income and have low access to food, including areas of Malden, Medford, Everett, Revere and Chelsea, all cities whose residents we serve at our pantries or with our delivery program. • Communities of Color: Two of the cities served by BOL, Malden and Everett, are in the top ten of the most diverse cities in the Commonwealth with regard to race, income and age as estimated by various assessments utilizing US Census data. Historically, about 60% of households served by our food pantries are from Malden and 32% from Everett. Over 80% of those utilizing Bread of Life’s food pantry self-identify as people of color: Asian 35% (Chinese, southeast Asian), Black 26% (African-American, African, Caribbean), White 16%, Other 13% (Arabic, middle eastern) and Latinx 9% (central and south American). In 2015, with a “$100K for 100” grant from the Cummings Foundation, we began our Food Access Project, which has since been funded by a $400,000 Sustaining Grant from the Cummings Foundation. This initiative seeks to eliminate barriers and improve access to fresh, nutritious foods for immigrants, non-native speakers of English and communities of color through: o recruitment, training and placement of volunteers from immigrant communities and communities of color into positions in our food pantry distribution and office. o empowerment of volunteers through taking on supervisory roles in our food pantry and participation on the Food Access Committee o outreach activities to immigrant and marginalized communities within Malden and the cities we serve o interviews with pantry members and new applicants to learn about food needs and barriers to access o interpreting and translating services for food pantry applicants in Cantonese, Mandarin, Haitian Creole, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese • Networking and Collaboration: As the largest food security organization in the North metro Boston area, Bread of Life plays a critical role in providing leadership and an understanding of food security in the area, particularly in Everett and Malden where we have deep investment. o Since 2015, BOL has convened the monthly Tri-City Hunger Network to bring together organizations and agencies fighting food insecurity in Malden, Medford and Everett. Participants include representatives of the Greater Boston Food Bank, Project Bread, ABCD, Cambridge Health Alliance, MelroseWakefield Healthcare, Tufts Health Plan, WIC, Mass Senior Action Council, YWCA Malden, YMCA Malden and local food pantries. o BOL is part of the Core Leadership Team of The Malden Community Food Assessment (CFA) 2019-2020 along with the Malden YWCA, Cambridge Health Alliance, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, and Malden is Moving!/Mass in Motion, in close collaboration with the City of Malden. Our vision is “a healthier Malden community where all people, especially historically marginalized populations, have access to culturally preferred, high quality, nutritious food.” Our goal is to enhance a shared understanding of the resources and gaps present within Malden’s food system so we can then work toward developing common goals and strategies to ensure our food system supports the health of Malden’s people, communities, and environment. The cities of Everett and Medford completed their CFAs in 2018 and 2019 respectively. We anticipate completing Malden’s CFA within the next 3 to 4 months. Bread of Life’s Under One Roof Capital Campaign: Bread of Life's Under One Roof campaign is Moving Forward to a Brighter Future thanks to our tremendous supporters. We are in the final stretch of our campaign to begin construction for our new facility, bringing all programs “under one roof” and allowing Bread of Life to serve more people more efficiently.
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