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Hunger in America 2010 Local Report Prepared for The Community Food Bank

Feb 01, 2010
  • Description

This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Community Food Bank. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed inperson interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. Key Findings:

  • The FA system served by The Community Food Bank provides emergency food for an estimated 157,000 different people annually.
  • 42% of the members of households served by The Community Food Bank are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2).
  • 36% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).
  • Among households with children, 85% are food insecure and 38% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1).
  • 38% of clients served by The Community Food Bank report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).
  • 34% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).
  • 34% of households served by The Community Food Bank report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)
  • The Community Food Bank included approximately 136 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 105 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 86 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.
  • 78% of pantries, 73% of kitchens, and 55% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).
  • Among programs that existed in 2006, 84% of pantries, 91% of kitchens, and 67% of shelters of The Community Food Bank reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).
  • Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 64% of the food distributed by pantries, 35% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 22% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).
  • As many as 91% of pantries, 77% of kitchens, and 67% of shelters in The Community Food Bank use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).

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  • Copyright 2010 Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest). All rights reserved.
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