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Community solutions for fighting hunger ANNUAL REPORT / FY2019 Alan Gilbertson (Chair) Catherine Bertini Cristián Cardoner Paul Henrys Member Distinguished Fellow Director Chief Financial Officer FoodForward SA Chicago Council on Global Paraguay Retail Ventures Feeding America SOUTH AFRICA Affairs PARAGUAY USA Fellow Jason D. Ramey (Vice Chair) Rockefeller Foundation Carol Criner William Rudnick Global Leader - Service Lines USA Vice President – Strategic General Counsel & Industries Accounts Cresset Capital Grant Thornton International Martin Burt, PhD HCL Technologies USA Limited Executive Director USA USA Fundación Paraguaya Jacques Vandenschrik PARAGUAY Joseph Gitler President Katharine Bambrick Executive Director & Founder & Chairman European Food Banks Chief Executive Officer Co-Founder Leket Israel Federation Ontario Trillium Foundation Teach A Man To Fish ISRAEL BELGIUM CANADA UK Ellen Goldberg Luger GENERAL COUNSEL Senior Vice President for Allen J. Ginsburg Philanthropic Services Partner The Minneapolis Foundation DLA Piper, LLP (USA) USA USA Brian Greene President & CEO Community Houston Food Bank USA solutions Sachin Gupta Head of Global Portfolio Management Desk for fighting hunger PIMCO USA CORPORATE OFFICERS 100% Lisa J. Moon Christopher Rebstock President & CEO Assistant Secretary of our Board of Directors Director, Field Services and Officers financially Douglas L. O’Brien Secretary Beth E. Saks support The Global Vice President, Programs Treasurer FoodBanking Network Chief Financial Officer BOARD OF DIRECTORS & OFFICERS OF DIRECTORS BOARD 1 THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO I am thrilled to share the FY2019 Annual Report, which lays out the strategies, progress, and impact of The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) for the period of July 2018 to June 2019. In FY2019, GFN was fortunate to serve and support Banks Federation (FEBA) and Feeding America, provided meals Organizationally, two key developments occurred in FY2019. GFN organizations in 34 countries. Collectively, the network to 62.5 million people in the last year, demonstrating that this established an office in Bogotá, Colombia, its first outside of the United had its most impactful year by distributing more than model for hunger relief is providing a critical part of the informal States. This office – led by Ana Catalina Suarez Pena with partnership 500 million kilograms of food to 9.6 million people facing social safety net in many countries around the world. from Alfredo Kasdorf based in Buenos Aires, Argentina – allows GFN hunger and by partnering with over 55,000 social service to provide a new level of service to our members in Latin America that agencies in more than 900 communities worldwide. GFN’s annual meeting – the Food Bank Leadership Institute – are providing critical support to children, families, and seniors facing convened food bank leaders from more than 50 countries in hunger. Further, with a budget surpassing $6 million, the organization In spring 2017, GFN announced the “8 Million by 2018” London, UK. In addition to reviewing trends in the food bank also added a new management team position, welcoming Vicki Clarke campaign, a bold goal of expanding service to 8 million sector, it featured participants from over 30 multinational as vice president of development. We look forward to partnering closely people facing hunger by the end of 2018. At the time, companies committed to hunger relief and food loss and with her as we look to build the partnerships and recruit the resources food banks in The Global FoodBanking Network were waste reduction and thought leaders working to strengthen necessary to continue to make significant gains in achieving our serving 6.8 million people. Thanks to the enterprising communities and advance food security. FY2019 marked the mission. leadership, creativity, and tenacity of the food bank leaders first year that GFN began to rotate the location of this meeting, that GFN serves—and to partners like you—food banking and given the success of convening it in London, in FY2020 it GFN’s work is made possible only through the generous support organizations as part of GFN have expanded service to plans to hold the session in Mexico City, Mexico. of donors and partners like you. On behalf of our board of directors and more than 2.5 million people facing hunger since the staff, thank you for your commitment to advancing hunger relief on a campaign launch, far surpassing this campaign’s goal. A core part of GFN’s work continues to be the customized global scale. I hope that this report lays out how your investments are support it provides to food banks at all stages of development. accelerating hunger relief and strengthening communities in their ability This year, alongside our network, partners and supporters FY2019 marked the first complete year of ourPowering Food to advance food security. like you, we were able to amplify the food bank model Banks for Growth program. This initiative, detailed later in as an effective and efficient hunger relief solution. We this report, combines GFN’s expert technical assistance with In spite of food banking’s progress, hunger and food insecurity continue witnessed first-hand the power of a global network and the innovative financing, aiming to help accelerate emerging food to be challenges that affect more than one in nine people in today’s importance of cross-country collaboration to help advance banks’ efforts to provide more meals to people facing hunger in world. I hope you will continue to partner with GFN to replicate and and achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero their communities. Food banking organizations in 12 countries scale the food banking solution to help nourish the world. Hunger. The two pieces of original research released by participated in the first phase of the program, and 75 percent GFN this year – The State of Global Food Banking and Waste of them met or exceeded their meal delivery goals. This Sincerely, Not, Want Not – described both the global reach of the program complements our Zero Hunger Food Bank Challenge food banking model and its collective impact on hunger initiative, which awarded $800,000 in grants to support members relief, food loss and waste reduction, and GHG emission in expanding their service area and the types of food they prevention and mitigation. These studies found that food distribute. banks served by GFN and its partners the European Food LISA MOON | PRESIDENT & CEO 3 THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT 4 TOGETHER, WE NOURISHED VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES IN 34 COUNTRIES 34 9.6M IMPACT 2019 PEOPLE SERVED 2019 9.6M 503M KG 2018 7.8M OF FOOD & GROCERY 2017 7.1M PRODUCTS DELIVERED 2019 943 472M kg 2018 FOOD BANKS IN THE 427M kg 2017 GFN NETWORK 55,681 2017 2018 2019 SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCIES SERVED 2019 794 811 943 55,013 agencies 2018 43,717 agencies 2017 OUR MISSION is to alleviate global hunger by developing 46% 50% food banks in communities of people of people served 585 served were were women where they are needed and by children and girls* supporting food banks where FOOD BANK LEADERS We surpassed our 8 million by 2018 they exist. COACHED goal by 1.6 million people! 5 THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT *as reported by food banks THE GLOBALTHE GLOBAL FOODBANKING FOODBANKING NETWORK NETWORK / FY2019 / FY2019 ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT REPORT6 6 OUR OUR IMPACT A GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR Together, we ZERO HUNGER The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is at the helm of a diverse and passionate are rising to community that is committed to alleviating hunger through food banking. Hand in hand, we elevated awareness of food banks’ humanitarian and environmental impact across the challenge: the globe, positioned food bank leaders for success, and provided increased support for programming that promotes food security among the people we serve. working toward We accomplished this by releasing new original research, connecting and training food bank leaders at global conferences and events, and supporting food banks’ workforce and a world of zero Being a member of The Global nutritional programs. Because of our new and FoodBanking Network means increasing existing partnerships, and - most of all - your the impact our work has on Panama’s support, the GFN network is growing and most vulnerable populations. It gives us reaching more children, women, and men facing the ability to grow in an orderly and hunger every day. hunger. sustainable manner, with the necessary support in terms of technology, equipment, and strategies to achieve more efficient operations. Through this partnership we are able to feed more people in need. ANA ISABEL MÉNDEZ, GENERAL MANAGER BANCO DE ALIMENTOS PANAMÁ 7 THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK / FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT 8 NEW TOOLS TO TRACK, MEASURE, AND REPORT OUR WORK We enhanced the way data on food banks’ work is reported by releasing studies that address the global impact of food banking. By doing so, we can strengthen food banks’ programs and operations, and advocate for policies that support our COMMITTED TO OUR efforts in reducing hunger in vulnerable communities. COMMUNITIES’ FUTURE We celebrate and support our food bank partners that The State of Global Food Banking create, enhance, and grow programs that advance food security. I feel like I’m learning We were pleased to release the first publication to profile food banks’ operations about supply chain on a global scale. The publication, The State of Global Food Banking, included profiles of food banks in more than 30 countries. Now an annual report, The State Achieving Economic Independence management from the of Global Food Banking provides insights and demonstrates the effectiveness of ground up. Now that I’m Food banks are community assets, spurring the food banking model as a grassroots, community-led hunger intervention.