Annual Report 2012-2013
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Annual Report 2012-2013 GettingGetting Involved.Involved. EndingEnding Hunger.Hunger. Message from the President & CEO and the Chairman of the Board of Directors It is with pride and a strong sense of accomplishment that the state last fiscal year and we distributed to more than 350 we present to you the St. Mary’s Food Bank 2012-2013 non-profit agency partners that are located in a service area Annual Report. that measures 81,000 square miles. The front cover and the pages that follow say it all and show it We are responsible for feeding hungry Arizonans in hundreds all: “Getting Involved. Ending Hunger.” This look back over last of communities from the Phoenix metro area, to Flagstaff, to fiscal year shows the food bank to be in strong fiscal shape, the Navajo Nation, to Lake Havasu City, to the Grand Canyon, well organized, efficient, and big. We are big because we have Verde Valley, Prescott, Snowflake, Gila Bend and Teec Nos Pos. to be – with such a large and varied distribution area, we see Every single month, St. Mary’s Food Bank distributes more than poverty and hunger everywhere it hides. And it is hiding in 40,000 emergency food boxes to households. We conduct more plain sight. than 40 fresh produce distributions in communities where fruits and vegetables are hard to come by – or are too expensive for More than 1.2 million Arizonans live at or below the poverty folks to afford. We provide 4,000 meals to kids after school each level, which means they are living very often with the reality and every weekday, trying to assure they don’t have to wait to that they don’t know where their next meal is coming from return back to school the next morning before they can eat again. or how they will be able to feed their children regular and nutritious meals. Nearly one in three children in our state lives Together, with your involvement, we can keep working to get with hunger. And one in seven seniors not only lives with more and better food ever deeper into the communities that hunger, many make heart-breaking choices about whether to need it the most and we can do it in innovative ways. Together, buy food, or forego buying medication, or paying rent, or riding we most certainly can create a state in which no one, no the bus. grandparent, parent and no child, ever worries again about how or what or when they might eat again. We cannot imagine living with the stress that uncertainty brings, but we do know that at St. Mary’s, we are fortunate to Together, we can end hunger. be able to ease that worry for many – and we know that for all the work we do, we need to do even more. Sincerely, Fortunately, we have you, our donors and supporters. Because Beverly Damore Troy McNemar of your donations of time, food and money, St. Mary’s Food President and CEO Chairman, Board of Directors Bank Alliance distributed almost 70 million pounds of food into The Food Bank thanks those who have held food drives or donated food to St. Mary’s FOOD DONORS during the past year. Abbott Nutrition/Ross Labs Barry’s Bakery Coffee Reserve Farmland Foods Henkel ABF Freight System, Inc Bashas Coliman Pacific Corporation Feed the Children Hensley and Company Ace Vending Bell Carter Packaging Columbia Fresh Produce Firebird International Raceway Hershey Chocolate Action West Group Bella Foods Community Food Bank- Nogales Food Bank of Northern Nevada Hi Health Advanced H2O LLC Big Boy Ice Cream Community Food Bank-Tucson Food Bank of the Rockies Hickman’s Eggs AG Against Hunger Big Lots Conagra Grocery Products Food City HMS Host Retail Agua Fria Food Bank Bill Johnson’s Big Apple Cooseman’s Produce Food Service of America Holsum Bakery AJ’s Fine Foods Bimbo Bakeries Costco Foster Farms Holsum Bakery Inc Albertsons Blue Line Distributing Costco Distribution Center Freeport Distribution Hospice of the Valley Alhambra Elementary School District Blue Sky Farms Inc Coyote Kitchen Freeport Logistics Hunger Solutions MN No 68 Bread Basket Bakery Creative Food Services LLC Fresh and Easy International Produce Alliance Beverage Distributing Co Brent Redmond Logistics Crescent Fruit and Vegetable LLC Fresh Express Isagenix International LLC Alpine Valley Bread Co Bunzl Distribution Crooked Sky Farms Fresh Pac J.R. Simplot Company American Ad Bag Bush Brothers and Co Cushman and Wakefield Fresh Point Jack In The Box Distribution American Italian Pasta Company Cafe Valley Bakery Custom Food Service Frito Lay Jacobson Warehouse Co Amistead Farms California Assoc of Food Banks Custom Ripe Avocado Company Frito Lay Westside Jamal Trading Co Apache Elementary School Camelback Desert School CVS Caremark Fry’s Food Stores JBS Tolleson Arizona Bag Company Canon Potato Company Dannon Co Fuji Food Products Inc Jo Foods Arizona Cold Storage Capitol Area FB of Austin TX Del Monte Fresh Produce G Farms Joe’s Crab Shack Arizona Dept of Revenue Carolina Logistics Denmark Foods Company Gaia Fresh International LLC John Morrell and Co Arizona Distribution Center Cartwright School District Desert Mission Food Bank Garden Fresh Gourmet Salsa Johnson and Johnson Arizona Food Group CC Foods Desert Packaging General Mills KB Bargain Wholesale Corp Arizona Marketing Central Refrigerated Services Dole Package Foods Golden State Foods Kellogg Company Arizona Select Distribution CH Robinson Worldwide Inc Domino’s Pizza Gordon Trucking Kellogg Supply Marketing Service Armour/Eckrich Chi and Hing Food Service Inc Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream of AZ Gourmet Foods Ltd Knight Refrigerated AZ Department of Economic Security Chiquita Brands International Inc. Duncan Farm Great Harvest Bread Company Knight Transportation AZ Hors D’oervres Chobani Inc Durobag Greco and Sons Kodiak Produce AZ Statewide Gleaning Project Chompie’s Wholesale Bakery Dynasty Farms Greer Farms Kraft/Nabisco/Mondelez Aztec Specialty Produce Co-Sales Company Everkrisp Vegetables Inc Harrison Fresh LLC La Canasta Mexican Food Products Aztec Vending Inc Coca-Cola Excel Food Distribution Co Harvest for Humanity LA Regional Food Bank Azteca Bakery Coca-Cola North America FAGE USA Dairy Harvesters - The Community FB LaCanasta Mexican Food Products Barrel O’ Fun Coco’s Restaurant Farmer John Heartland Express LDS Cannery “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers The Food Bank thanks those who have held food drives or donated food to St. Mary’s FOOD DONORS during the past year. Legend Distributing Nestle USA Proinnovative Southwest Freeport Warehouse Tyson Foods Inc Lyfe Kitchen Retail Inc Niagara Bottling LLC Pure Farm Produce Southwest Specialty Foods United Food Bank Malt-O-Meal Nicolai Italian Bakery Queen Creek Potato Co Inc Southwest Traders US Foods Mangat Group OceanBeauty Seafoods Inc Quick Trip Sparkletts Drinking Water USDA Marquez Brothers Southwest Inc Odwalla Juice Inc R and S Mexican Food Products Inc Sprouts Markets USDA/CSFP Marten Transportation Ltd Orangedale Middle School R B Packing Inc Sprouts Produce Whse USDA/TEFAP Martori Farms Oroweat Rainbow Produce Company SQS Family Foods Valleywide Produce May Trucking Co Otis Spunkmeyer Red Bird Farms Company St Vincent DePaul VelMar Distributing McClendons Select Over Easy Red Robin Harvest States Logistics Svcs Inc Vision Produce Company McKee Foods Papa Johns Salads and Produce Restaurant Depot Stern Produce Walgreens McLane Foodservice Peddler’s Son Revolution Tea Sun Mex Walgreens Distr Ctr McLane Sunwest Penske Logistics Roadrunner Brokerage and Dist Sun Orchard Inc Walmart Mera Luna Produce Pepperidge Farms Roadrunner Food Bank Sun Produce Specialties LLC Walmart Distribution Center Mesa Citrus Growers Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co Rocky Mountain Eggs Sun River of Idaho Inc Warehouse Specialists Inc Mesa Cold Storage PepsiCo Roma Foods Sun Valley Vending Warren Industries - Gevalia Michael Lewis Co - West Peralta Foods Inc Rousseau Farms Sunburst Snacks Weld Food Bank Miedema Produce of AZ Peri and Sons Farms Running Bear Orchard Sunflower Market Wells Fargo MINI of N Scottsdale Peterson Transportation S and S Gourmet Distribution Sunny Delight Beverages Co Wendy’s Company Mission Foods Phoenix Fresh Produce Safeway Sunset Elementary School Werner Enterprises MKP Transport Inc Phoenix Ice Cream Plant Sam’s Club Sunset Produce Company Western Onion Sales Inc Mojo Pies Phoenix International Raceway Santa Rosa Produce Swift Transportation Co WF Williams Co Monterey Mushroom Phoenix Ranch Market Sara Lee Bakery Outlet Store Swire Coca-Cola Whataburger Restaurants LP Morning Star Foods Phoenix Ranch Market Sara Lee Mixing Center System Services of Arizona White Wave Foods Morris K Udall Escuela de Bellas Artes Phoenix Union School District School Nutrition Association of AZ Tanita Produce Company Willie Itule Produce Company Mountain King Potatoes Pilgrim’s Pride Schwans Consumer Brands Target Distribution Center Wingstop Restaurants Inc Multifoods Distribution Pinnacle Farms Scottsdale Unified School Dist Taylor Farms Yuma Community Food Bank Nabisco/Kraft Pinto Creek Co LLC Second Harvest Heartland The Kroger Company National DCP Points West Sales and Marketing Shamrock Farms - Dairy Div Tia Rosa Nationwide Gourmet of Arizona Pomo Pizzeria Napoletana Shamrock Food Tolleson Dairy Natural Brokers Inc Poore Brothers Signature Bread Inc Total Source Nature’s Value Produce Pope Lime Company Smith’s Food and Drug Trader Joe’s Naturipe Berry Growers Inc Precision Warehouse and Dist Snyder’s of Hanover Trader Joe’s Distribution Ctr Navajo Marketing Company Pro Ranch Warehouse Soldovieri Distributing Tropical Foods Navajo Shippers Produce Brokers of Arizona Sonora Produce Inc Tropicana Products Inc. Nestle Direct Store Deliver Company Produce Unlimited Southwest Cold Storage Twin Laboratories ORGANIZATIONS PREVENTING HUNGER These organizations are recognized for annually donating a sum of $1,000 or more. A Professional Image Arizona Organic Termite & Pest Blue Goose Charities City of Surprise Endurance Truck Accessories General Mills Foundation AAA Insurance Control, LLC Boeing Company – Employees Cleveland Sales, Inc.