SM Everyone has a role in ending hunger in our community. 2010 Annual Report HUNGER HURTS. WE CAN HELP. FEEDING A GROWING NEED. Leadership Message Dear Friends, Our work during the 2010 fiscal year reached historic milestones towards ending hunger in our community. Working together, as dedicated partners, we can accomplish even more. With your help, we were able to distribute a record 34.4 million pounds of food, or 26.46 million meals. We did this in partnership with nearly 550 member food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters, along with 30 of our own direct distribution programs such as BackPack, Kids Cafes and Brown Bag for seniors. We guaranteed the nutritional value of the food, and expanded our reach into underserved areas of eastern Massachusetts. In addition, we expanded our programs that serve vulnerable populations of seniors and children. We did all of this despite a weak economy and stubbornly high unemployment, two factors that kept the need for emergency food assistance growing during the year. Our 2010 Hunger Study showed a 23 percent increase in the need for food over the past four years. Despite difficult fiscal times, we raised a record $8.6 million and increased the amount of nutritious food we purchased. We successfully advocated the state legislature to keep the food purchasing line for the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program level at $11.5 million. During the year we hosted U.S. Senator Paul Kirk, U.S. Senator Scott Brown, Governor Deval Patrick, Mayor Thomas Menino, Attorney General Martha Coakley, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo. We appreciate all the elected officials who work with us to make a positive difference in the battle against hunger. By the end of our 2010 fiscal year we were heading toward the completion of our Fighting Hunger, Feeding Hope capital campaign to build our 117,000 square-foot Yawkey Distribution Center. We installed one of the largest solar panel installations in the city of Boston on the roof, capping our goal of a truly green building. We could not have accomplished so much without you. As supporters and volunteers you give generously of your time, your money, your food, your professional talents, and most of all, your compassion. We thank all of you, and hope that you stay with us in the year ahead as we commit to providing more nutritious food to feed everyone in need across eastern Massachusetts at least one meal a day. Sincerely, Catherine D’Amato Philip Licari President and CEO Chair, Board of Directors THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 2010 ANNUAL REPORT Financial Highlights REVENUE 19.6% Individual, Corporate & Foundation Contributions $ 10,745,749 0.6% Contributed Services & In-Kind Gifts 348,355 50.6% Food Donations 27,789,868 24% Government Funds 13,207,941 1.8% Shared Maintenance* 964,073 3.4% Other 1,858,745 TOTAL REVENUE $54,914,731 EXPENSES 88.2% Program Services $ 46,403,135 6.7% Management & General 3,516,250 5.1% Fundraising 2,673,466 TOTAL EXPENSES $52,592,851 ENDING NET ASSETS FOR 2010 $34,320,823 * SHARED MAINTENANCE: The Food Bank receives shared maintenance fees from its member agencies in order to offset the cost of handling and redistributing donated food as recommended by Feeding America. The number of cents from every dollar secured that goes directly toward our mission to help end hunger in eastern Massachusetts. 88 1 1 Member Agencies BARNSTABLE COUNTY Mashpee Fall River North Attleboro Saint Vincent de Paul Citizens for Citizens Attleboro Area Council of Churches Brewster — Christ the King Fall River Portuguese Seventh Day — Food & Friends II Lower Cape Outreach Council Adventist Church — Brewster Pantry North Truro Fall River Community Soup Norton Saint Vincent de Paul Lower Cape Outreach Council Kitchen North Cottage Program, Inc. — Our Lady of Cape Church — Truro Pantry — Church of the Holy Spirit Ferry Street Ministries, Inc. Raynham Chatham Orleans — Lighthouse Christian Center Raynham Food Basket Lower Cape Outreach Council Lower Cape Lunch Greater Fall River Food Pantry Seekonk — Chatham Pantry Lower Cape Outreach Council Old Colony YMCA — Group Home Attleboro Area Council of Churches — Orleans Pantry Sacred Heart Church Pantry — Food & Friends IV Dennisport Sacred Heart Church Soup Kitchen Doorways, Inc. Fellowship Health Resources Pocasset Saint Anne’s Church Food Pantry — Clipper Lane Bourne Friends Food Pantry Salvation Army — Fall River Meals Somerset Salvation Army — Fall River Pantry Annelle Delorme Hagerman East Sandwich Provincetown Salvation Army — Gentle Arms Food Pantry Saint Vincent de Paul — Sandwich Lower Cape Outreach Council Steppingstone, Inc. — Fall River Church of Our Savior Meals — Provincetown Pantry Men’s and Women’s Shelter Program Eastham Soup Kitchen in Provincetown, Inc. Steppingstone, Inc. — North Main Lower Cape Outreach Council Veteran’s Association South Attleboro — Eastham Pantry Sandwich of Bristol County, Inc. Saint Vincent de Paul Sandwich Food Pantry, Inc. — Saint Theresa Falmouth Mansfield Children Study Home Wellfleet Attleboro Area Council of Churches Swansea — Cape START Program Lower Cape Outreach Council — Food & Friends V Bethany Gospel Chapel Falmouth Service Center — Wellfleet Pantry Our Daily Bread — Mansfield — Food Pantry Taunton Falmouth Service Center West Harwich New Bedford Community Care Services — Meals Program Cape Cod Council of Churches American Red Cross — Crossroads Fellowship Health Resources — New Bedford Pantry Coyle and Cassidy High School — Fairwinds Clubhouse Catholic Social Services Pantry BRISTOL COUNTY — New Bedford Our Daily Bread Harwich Eliot Community Human Services Saint Vincent de Paul — Taunton Family Pantry Corporation Acushnet — New Bedford STARR Lower Cape Outreach Council The Shepherd’s Pantry Grace After School & Summer — Harwich Pantry Program DUKES COUNTY Attleboro Grace Episcopal Church Food Hyannis Attleboro Area Council of Churches Pantry Edgartown AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod — Food & Friends I High Point Treatment Center Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living Community Action Committee Attleboro Area Council of Churches Immigrants’ Assistance Center, Inc. — Edgartown Senior Center of Cape Cod & the Islands — Food & Friends III Market Ministries Shelter — Safe Harbor Attleboro Area Council of Churches Market Ministries Soup Kitchen Oak Bluffs Calvary Baptist Church — Food & Friends VI M.O. Food = L.I.F.E. Food Pantry Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living — Food Pantry Community Care Services New Bedford Council on — Oak Bluffs Senior Center Calvary Baptist Church — Family Resource Center Substance Abuse — Meals Program Hebron Food Pantry, Inc. — Harmony House Vineyard Haven Cape Cod Child Murray Unitarian Universalist People Acting in Community Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living Development Center Church Food Pantry Endeavors — Island Food Pantry Crystal Garden Children’s Center Saint Joseph’s Food Cellar — Emergency Food Pantry Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living First Baptist Church Hyannis Self Help Attleboro Pentecostal Assembly — Tisbury Senior Center Pantry Saint Anthony of Padua Food Housing Assistance Berkley Pantry West Tisbury — Noah’s Shelter Community Care Services Saint Anthony of Padua Soup Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living Housing For All — Champ Program — Lindencroft Program Kitchen — Up-Island Senior Center Independence House Food Pantry Saint Lawrence Parish Food Pantry Nam Vets Association of the Saint Martin’s Food Pantry Cape and Islands Food Pantry Salvation Army Saint Vincent de Paul — New Bedford Meals Program — Saint Francis Xavier Salvation Army Salvation Army — Hyannis Pantry — New Bedford Pantry Salvation Army Seventh Day Adventist Portuguese — Hyannis Soup Kitchen Church Pantry South Baptist Church Pantry Steppingstone, Inc. — Pleasant Veterans Transition House YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts — YW Kids THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 2 Member Agencies ESSEX COUNTY Eliot Community Human Services MIDDLESEX COUNTY Salvation Army — Respite — Cambridge Meals Program Amesbury Iglesia Christiana Torrente Ashland Tuesday Meal Program Northeastern Family Institute, Inc. De Cedron Food Pantry Southern Middlesex Opportunity Zinberg Clinic Pantry — Camp Amesbury Lynn City Mission Council — Meadows House Our Neighbor’s Table — Food Lynn Emergency Shelter Southern Middlesex Opportunity Concord Pantry Project Cope Women’s Program Council — Shadows Open Table of Concord Food Our Neighbor’s Table Sacred Heart Tree of Life Pantry Pantry — Meals Program Saint Stephen’s Food Pantry Bedford Saint Vincent de Paul Eliot Community Human Services Devens Beverly — Saint Joseph’s Parish Food — Elm Brook Place Loaves & Fishes Pantry Beverly Bootstraps Food Pantry Pantry Salvation Army — Beverly Pantry Belmont Everett Middleton Belmont Church of God Food A Better Tomorrow Pantry Bradford Northeastern Family Institute, Inc. Pantry Saint Vincent de Paul Saint Vincent de Paul — Middleton Detention — Immaculate Conception — Sacred Heart Bradford Boxborough Food Pantry Team Coordinating Agency Newburyport Community Supper, Inc. Bread of Life — Pathways Among Friends — Everett Food Pantry John Ashford Link House Burlington Danvers Turning Point — Newburyport Burlington Food Pantry Framingham CAB Health & Recovery Services Eliot Community Human Services — Danvers Treatment Center Peabody Cambridge — Girls Independent Living Citizens for Adequate Housing American Red Cross Program Gloucester — Inn Between — Disaster Relief Hope Worldwide New England, Inc. The Open Door — Food Pantry Haven From Hunger Breakthrough Cambridge Justice