2015-2016 Board of Directors
Board Chair
The Northern Neck Food Bank has seen a staggering
growth in numbers of those who are struggling with
food insecurity, increasing to over 8,700 residents in the
counties of Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex,
Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland. It’s
a hard fact to face, but it’s the reason we are so
passionate and driven towards our vision of a hungerfree community. We know that our goals are attainable,
but we cannot do it alone.
Treasurer
Secretary
Dave Cryer, Hands Across Middlesex
Mark Kleinschmidt, Director of Operations
Northern Neck Food Bank
P O Box 735
Warsaw VA 22572
Telephone: 804-577-0246
[email protected]
www.nnfb.org
Because of your generosity last year we distributed over
1.6 million pounds of food and 391,000 pounds of
produce was gleaned or harvested through our incredible
network of Pantry Partners, Farmers and Produce
Growers, Volunteers and Businesses. An additional
pantry was opened in Westmoreland. To help food reach
our residents in small remote areas, a mobile food pantry
was launched in Middlesex, directly distributing from the
truck. This service reached communities that do not have
the resources to set up their own food pantries.
We saw and noted the need, to support the mobile
pantry, four additional pantries have opened in remote
locations providing assistance to our food insecure
neighbors who were unable to reach one of our other 24
pantries. The Northern Neck Food Bank will distribute
over 1.7 million pounds of food this year, glean and
harvest over 400,000 pounds of fresh nutritional produce
and serve over 446,000 meals to children, increasing our
BackPack Buddy weekend feeding program and looking
at partnerships to provide low-income children with a
Summer Feeding Program. Our original truck, Becky
retired, leaving Shirley our secondary truck to complete
over 500 journey’s a year visiting pantries, additionally,
collecting gleaning of local fresh produce, special
deliveries, collecting grocery and delivery of children’s
meals. A new truck through grant funding will be
secured in June 2016 to help Shirley.
The Northern Neck Food Bank has achieved incredible
work, because of you. Please know that your gift is vital
to the Northern Neck Food Bank in providing families,
seniors and children in need with a sense of hope and
connection. On behalf of local families, individuals,
seniors and children in our counties, we thank you.
Community Investment can solve hunger
Our giving options vary to meet your goals, preferences, and key areas of interest. Whether mailing a check,
donating online, giving through the workplace, making a memorial or honorary gift, sponsoring a program, or
making other planned giving decisions, your decision provides a critical foundation of nutrition for your
neighbors in need.
We are seeing an increase in clients visiting our partnering pantries, feeding sites and mobile unit. Your
generosity helps the Northern Neck Food Bank managed the expense of providing services to more than 8,700
in need every month.
You’ll find many teachers who can tell you about a student who came to school on Monday, not reluctant to
start the school week but eager to get back to school after going through Friday evening, all day Saturday, and
all day Sunday without a square meal—or knowledge of a source for their next meal. Those children are the
reason we started the BackPack Program. The BackPack Program ensures that children in need have balanced,
nutritious food they need to learn and grow. The concept is simple: children at risk of weekend hunger receive
a bag of food that is child-friendly, nutritious, nonperishable, and easy to prepare/eat. Each BackPack offers
enough food that children can easily assemble into six healthy meals over the weekend when schools are
unable to provide breakfasts or lunches.
The Northern Neck Food Bank has achieved incredible work, because of you, please know that your gift is vital
to the Northern Neck Food Bank is providing families, seniors and children in need with a sense of hope and
connection. We hope you will share with your family, friends and neighbors the good work we are achieving
through the generosity that makes this possible.
Because
of You
Gleaning is the distribution
Through community
investment of funds,
food, and volunteer
hours, local families
had meals on their
tables, seniors made
fewer choices
between buying
groceries or
medications, and
c h i l d r e n didn’t
arrive at school on
Mondays with empty
bellies.
DONATE TODAY
Individual Giving,
Through the Workplace, Sponsorships,
Memoriam / Honorarium, Endowment or
Legacy Giving, On-line Giving
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What if it was about more than just food?
My husband and I had worked hard through our life time, owned our
business, spent time volunteering and donating to local causes. Then
one day, this changed. Our doctor informed my husband he would have
to stop working due to his health and eventually our business declined
and we filed bankruptcy. Basic living expenses were hard to meet.
Then I heard about our nearest Food Bank. On visiting the pantry, their
warmth, efficiency and consideration was amazing. For two years, the
pantry kept us fed and offering support, as we adjusted to our new
circumstances. We cannot thank the Northern Neck Food Bank enough
for being part of our lives.
Frances
www.nnfb.org or contact 804-577-2046
As little as one
dollar ($1) provides
lunch and a snack
for a child; five
dollars ($5)
provides a family
with 40 pounds of
food consisting of
local healthy
produce, bakery,
dairy, as well as dry
goods and ten
dollars ($10)
provides a child
with six weekend
meals.