Food in Need of Distribution, Inc.
Let's End Hunger, Today, Tomorrow, and for a Lifetime
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Increase equitable access to healthy and culturally relevant food across over 5,000 square miles of FIND Food Bank's service area as the desert's regional food bank. Fill in the nutrition gaps for food desert and low-income areas because one in 5 residents face food insecurity in eastern Riverside and southern San Bernardino counties.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Kid's Summer Club
Support for our kid's programs come from a variety of funding sources. Gifts from Individuals, Grants from Foundations, Workplace Giving Campaigns, and Corporate Sponsorship and Cause-Related Marketing are all sources from which we receive generous financial support. These funds used to carry out our mission of feeding hungry people in the Coachella Valley.
Food Distribution
FIND is the regional food bank for the Eastern Riverside & Southern San Bernardino Counties including the greater Coachella Valley. FIND provides food assistance in part through our network of 100+ partner agency locations that represent food pantries, soup kitchens, after-school and summer programs, senior centers, area homeless shelters and others to support the 85,000 food insecure adults, children and seniors in the Coachella Valley.
Outreach Services
FIND’s Outreach and Case Management Department works to connect clients to safety-net programs and resources; including CalFresh/SNAP, rental/utility assistance, pharmacy discount RX cards, counseling resources and transportation assistance which encourage household stability, reduce food-insecurity, and raise the quality of life.
Mobile Pantry
Mobile Pantry distribution was created to support areas of the under served communities throughout the Coachella Valley. This program provides fresh fruits and vegetables to children, families and seniors in schools, religious organizations, housing developments & community centers
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsPounds of fresh produce distributed per year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Social and economic status
Related Program
Food Distribution
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
FIND's goal is to end hunger today, tomorrow, and for a lifetime. Ultimately, we aim to give our clients the tools to reach self-sufficiency. Today, FIND feeds an average of 150,000 individuals, families, children, seniors, and veterans each month. Our 150 distribution sites include over 80 community agency partnerships (soup kitchens, religious organizations, local nonprofits) and 44 community mobile markets that serve food deserts and low-income areas. FIND's two distribution centers strategically located in the Hi-Desert and Coachella Valley help achieve their mission and vision of equitable food distribution for all. To end hunger for tomorrow, FIND offers outreach services that connect residents to benefits programs that improve financial security. FIND works to end hunger for a lifetime by identifying the root causes of hunger to break cycles of food insecurity and ensure self-sufficiency.
As the largest hunger-relief and food rescue organization in the desert region, FIND works to eliminate food waste by rescuing fresh produce, non-perishable goods, and any other food items before they are discarded by major distributors, grocery stores, local growers, and individuals. Our goal every year is to ensure that 50% of our total poundage of food distributed is fresh produce because this improves the mental, physical, emotional, health, and socioeconomic outcomes of those facing food insecurity which helps break cycles of poverty. FIND prioritizes addressing the social determinants of food insecurity by improving access to private and public benefits to increase financial security to support the progression to self-sufficiency. Diving deeper into the root causes of hunger through nationwide and localized research provides strategies to shorten food lines and ultimately end hunger for a lifetime.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To end hunger for today:
FIND is a healthy food bank, meaning we ensure that 40-50% of our food distributions are fresh produce. To help over 88 community agency partners serve their individual clients and community, FIND provides the food to over 88 community agency partners to help these organizations better serve their client's individual needs to help them break the cycles of poverty. We distribute food directly in communities without access to healthy, affordable food within 3 miles through our 44 drive-thru community mobile markets. Their strategic locations across the desert region allow us to provide hunger relief specifically for children and seniors. We provide direct distributions with specific strategies to overcome barriers to reaching underserved populations such as migrant farmworkers in the eastern Coachella Valley and immunocompromised or homebound clients by delivering fresh groceries directly to their doorstep.
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) - The emergency food assistance program
is the federal USDA food commodities program administered through the State of California.
As a contractor to the state of California for this program, FIND utilizes 19 of its agency partners' networks and its 44 community mobile markets to ensure the equitable distribution of these food items to the community. TEFAP accounts for approximately 40% of FIND's food supply.
Disaster Food Distribution - FIND is the Coachella Valley Desert's Regional Food Bank
recognized by both the state and county as the main supplier of disaster food distribution to
the community.
To End Hunger for Tomorrow:
CalFresh Outreach - A client outreach program that provides education, application, and enrollment support
for clients to access USDA CalFresh benefits to purchase food at local grocery stores. During
the year ended June 30, 2020, FIND enrolled 2,573 clients in this program.
Community Health Workers (CHW) - FIND's CHW program is designed to help clients access
other support services that can help provide monetary support in other areas such as rental and
utility assistance, MediCal insurance, job training, and placement services, freeing up
resources to help them purchase food independently.
To End Hunger for a Lifetime:
This suite of programs is designed to support clients' access to food through other programs besides direct food distributions. The purpose of these programs is to support the clients increased self-sufficiency in accessing food to help them thrive.
Advocacy - FIND advocacy serves an important role in informing stakeholders about the
importance of partnership between public and private efforts to address hunger.
Community Nutrition Education - FIND provides nutrition, food safety, and food handling
training and support materials for clients and partner agencies to ensure a lifelong
understanding that through health, individuals have a better ability to achieve long term self-sufficiency
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Food in Need of Distribution, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 10/23/2023
Mr Paul MacKey
Retired Lawyer
Deborah McGarrey
Sothern Calif. Gas Co
Brian Robin
Retired Executive
Gary Rice
Nestle' Waters North America
Erin Gilhuly
CV Strategies
Keith Flagler
Retired Corporate Executive
Paul MacKey
Retired Lawyer
Troy Strange
Desert Recreation District
Ellen Way
Agriculture Executive
Deborah McGarrey
Sothern Calif. Gas Co
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.