Food Bank for New York City Will Be Featured at the Brooklyn Historical Society in Fall 2015
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YOUR SUPPORT ENDS HUNGER IN NYC THE GAP Many of the photographs featured in this annual report were taken by photojournalist Joey O’Loughlin. More of her work with Food Bank For New York City will be featured at the Brooklyn Historical Society in fall 2015. BACK COVER PHOTOS: JOEY O’LOUGHLIN 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Main Office GET INVOLVED: 39 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10006 DONATE. ADVOCATE. VOLUNTEER. t: 212.566.7855 | f: 212.566.1463 Warehouse/Distribution Center (food donations) @FoodBank4NYC Hunts Point Cooperative Market 355 Food Center Drive, Bronx, NY 10474 FoodBankNYC t: 718.991.4300 | f: 718.893.3442 Community Kitchen & Food Pantry FoodBankNYC 252 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10026 t: 212.566.7855 | f: 212.662.1945 www.foodbanknyc.org 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 02 FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY 1 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AGENCY CELEBRITY CULINARY Barbara Fairchild ADVISORY AMBASSADORS COUNCIL CULINARY AUTHORITY DEAR FRIENDS, Rev. Henry A. Belin III COMMITTEE Stanley Tucci Mario Batali Brad Farmerie CHEF Over the past year, we have witnessed the need But we also understand that the battle against CHAIR Jewel Jones CHAIR CHAIR BETHEL AME CHURCH CHAIR ACTOR, DIRECTOR CHEF, AUTHOR, RESTAURATEUR Tyler Florence for emergency food in our city increase as the hunger cannot be fought via food alone. The NYC LOVE KITCHEN CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR Jewel Jones Hank Azaria Ted Allen resources required to combat poverty and hunger underlying cause of hunger—namely, poverty—must Lisa Boyd ACTOR TV HOST, AUTHOR Marc Forgione VICE CHAIR NORTHEAST BROOKLYN have decreased. The difference now is that we be addressed as well. Kevin Bacon Sunny Anderson CHEF NYC LOVE KITCHEN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT are seeing the need through a more focused CORPORATION (NEBHDCO) ACTOR TV HOST Francis Garcia As we took a closer look at where hunger lives today— Todd Aaron Roxanne Cruiz Kelly Bensimon Dominique Ansel RESTAURATEUR, TV HOST, lens. Hardship greets millions of New Yorkers every AUTHOR the communities where it is most concentrated— EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR NYC HRA-EFAP ACTOR, MODEL CHEF, AUTHOR, RESTAURATEUR morning, a situation made a thousand times worse SENTINEL DATA CENTERS Paul Giannone Pe’er Deutsch Lorraine Bracco Phillip Baltz Food Bank made a concerted effort to boost the RESTAURATEUR since cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ONEG SHABBOS ACTOR BALTZ & COMPANY funds available to working families by targeting more Arthur Stainman Program (SNAP, or food stamps) decreased the very Maria Estrada Alex Guarnaschelli TREASURER Ty Burrell Sal Basille of our free tax assistance services in high Meal Gap EVERY DAY IS A MIRACLE CHEF, TV HOST FIRST MANHATTAN CO. ACTOR RESTAURATEUR, TV HOST, benefits they need to survive. So many of the food AUTHOR Max Hardy areas. Ramping up the technology of our Tax and Anita Fein Helena Christensen pantries and soup kitchens in our network, from the John F. Fritts, Esq. ST. EDWARD FOOD PANTRY Joe Bastianich CHEF Financial Services Program paid amazing dividends MODEL, PHOTOGRAPHER Bronx to Staten Island, faced longer lines and food SECRETARY Rev. Vincent Fusco CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR Jean-Marc Houmard for New Yorkers: $85 million in refunds to those who CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT LLP Alan Cumming shortages as a result of these cuts. Our city is missing ACTS COMMUNITY Lidia Bastianich RESTAURATEUR DEVELOPMENT AND CONEY ACTOR need it most. CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR 250 million meals—a huge Meal Gap that is more ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE MISSION Hung Huynh Mario Batali Gavin DeGraw Ken Biberaj CHEF deeply entrenched within certain communities. But CHEF, AUTHOR, RESTAURATEUR Diane Glick-Morris MUSICIAN By taking a bold strategic approach that puts more NYSDOH-HPNAP RESTAURATEUR Dan Kluger Selita Ebanks we know where hunger is most concentrated. We focus on the communities of highest need throughout Peter L. Bloom April Bloomfield CHEF Scarlette Greene MODEL know the specific neighborhoods where lack and GENERAL ATLANTIC, LLC the five boroughs, Food Bank is increasing resources BNAI RAPHAEL CHESED CHEF Kate Krader ORGANIZATION INC. Dominic Fumusa want color New Yorkers’ lives in the greatest degrees. FOOD & WINE MAGAZINE in those areas and helping to build the capacity ACTOR Danny Bowien Anthony Bowe LaMaunda Maharaj CHEF, RESTAURATEUR Emeril Lagasse As more and more of our neighbors find it harder to of charities serving the people who live there. The NYC HRA-EFAP Cat Greenleaf Daniel Boulud CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR survive in our city with dignity, Food Bank For New Gail Grimmett HOST, NBC NEW YORK accomplishments we’ve made in the last year as we Sara Manus CHEF, AUTHOR DELTA AIR LINES Katie Lee EVANGELICAL CHURCH Ethan Hawke York City is showing up with new and innovative work to close the Meal Gap have only been possible CHRIST IS THE LIGHT Anthony Bourdain TV HOST ACTOR ways to help. Carla A. Harris CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR because of your support and partnership. As New Jeanne McGettigan Michael Kay Jennifer Leuzzi MORGAN STANLEY CATHOLIC CHARITIES ADVERTISING, MARKETING & Yorkers, we are in this together, and it is our shared SPORTS BROADCASTER Tim Buma EDITORIAL CONSULTANT This isn’t about any city. This is about OUR city. David Moses CHEF commitment to ending hunger in our city that will Tam Ho Lenny Kravitz MT. HEBRON CHURCH OF Michael Lomonaco In every borough, everyone in the Food Bank family M·A·C AIDS FUND MUSICIAN David Burke CHRIST CHEF, AUTHOR change the story for millions of our neighbors who are CHEF, AUTHOR is working diligently to ensure that low-income New Lauren Bush Lauren struggling to survive. Seraina Maag Ramon Peguero Marisa May Yorkers have enough to eat and have the services SOUTHSIDE UNITED STATES SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR Anne Burrell SD26 EVENTS AIG HDFC-LOS SURES CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR Henrik Lundqvist necessary to get back on their feet. From the Masaharu Morimoto Sincerely, Doreen Rutty ATHLETE Andrew Carmellini Gloria Pitagorsky CHEF, AUTHOR community champions within our citywide network BRONX BETHANY COMMUNITY CHEF, AUTHOR HEARD CITY CORPORATION Oliver Platt Seamus Mullen of over 1,000 charities and schools, to the thousands ACTOR Cesare Casella Maj. Sharon CHEF, AUTHOR, RESTAURATEUR CHEF, AUTHOR of dedicated volunteers who fuel Food Bank’s Lee Schrager Sweeting-Lindsey, Robin Roberts Ruth Reichl SOUTHERN WINE & SPIRITS mission, to the partners and supporters who make USA, Ret. NEWSCASTER David Chang Margarette Purvis CULINARY AUTHORITY VETS INCORPORATED CHEF, AUTHOR our work possible, we are all a part of one story—the Gavin Rossdale PRESIDENT AND CEO Eric Schwartz Maria Vives Missy Robbins MUSICIAN Caryl Chinn story of New York City. And the plot of our story, the 76 WEST HOLDINGS CHEF GIVE THEM TO EAT OCTAGON Susan Sarandon Michael Salvatore strategic driver of our work as we tackle hunger and Michael Smith ACTOR Tom Colicchio SYSCO METRO NEW YORK CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR poverty at its core, is Food, Funds, Focus. COOKING CHANNEL Kyra Sedgwick Aarón Sánchez ACTOR Gabriele Corcos CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR Stanley Tucci CHEF, TV HOST Food is the heart and soul of our mission. Thanks Tony Shaloub ACTOR, DIRECTOR Michael Schlow to advances in our processes and operations, ACTOR Madison Cowan CHEF, AUTHOR, RESTAURATEUR Robert Weinmann CHEF, AUTHOR we distributed 76.7 million pounds of food this year, Ahmir “Questlove” Lee Schrager Thompson Yann de Rochefort resulting in 63 million meals, and our multilayered RDD ASSOCIATES, LLC SOUTHERN WINE & SPIRITS MUSICIAN, RESTAURATEUR, RESTAURATEUR AUTHOR Tanya Wenman Steel work to help people access SNAP citywide yielded Eric Demby EPICURIOUS.COM more than $32 million in food purchasing power. BROOKLYN FLEA Susan Ungaro Jake Dickson JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION DICKSON’S FARMSTAND MEATS Jean-Georges Vongerichten Todd English CHEF, AUTHOR, RESTAURATEUR CHEF, TV HOST, AUTHOR COVER PHOTO: JOEY O’LOUGHLIN 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2 FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY THE STORY OF NEW YORK CITY BEGINS WITH ITS PEOPLE, HOWEVER YOU HAVE TO LOOK INSIDE NEW YORKERS’ LIVES BEFORE THE TRUE STORY MAY BE UNDERSTOOD. JOEY O’LOUGHLIN JOEY O’LOUGHLIN 2014 ANNUAL REPORT FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY 5 MORE FOOD TO MORE PEOPLE Filling the plates of our neighbors who are struggling is at the STRENGTH ININ NUMBERSNUMBERS center of Food Bank For New York City’s mission: 80% of our A RECORD-BREAKING program expenses are dedicated to securing and distrib- uting food. Data gleaned from the Meal Gap—New York City’s official measure of food insecurity—has enabled us to pinpoint the highest-need areas in the city. With more than 76 . 7 20 trucks on the road daily, we set a strategic goal this past MILLION fiscal year to increase the amount of nutritious food distrib- POUNDS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED CITYWIDE, PROVIDING uted from our 90,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bronx to 63.9 MILLION MEALS communities that need it most. We are accomplishing this by continuously widening New Yorkers’ access to emergen- NATHANIEL BURKE cy food via our network of over 1,000 member charities and schools citywide. Food Bank is focusing more resources— I was homeless at one time, sleeping on the train and in the park,” food, training and capacity-building—on charities in neigh- 17.9 says Nathaniel. “But I remembered what my grandmother always borhoods where hunger is most concentrated, as well as on MILLION told me: ‘When your back is against the wall, call on the Lord.’ programs within those communities that are eager to offer POUNDS OF FRESH That’s what I did, and He delivered me.” The challenges since PRODUCE DISTRIBUTED— a broad range of anti-hunger solutions. then have been tough, but Nathaniel is grateful that he has a A 20.6% INCREASE place to turn for help.