Bread of the Mighty Food Bank, Inc.

Gainesville, FL   |  www.breadofthemighty.org

Mission

To coordinate the acquisition and distribution of food and basic essentials to the hungry and the needy through our network of non-profit, service agencies that provide directly for the needs of the hungry and the poor of our community. We also serve as the regional distribution site for USDA commodities. We also operate a Kids Cafe program.  We are a part of Feeding America, and have operated in Gainesville since 1987.

Notes from the nonprofit

Bread of the Mighty provides basic food banking resource services distributing food and basic essentials provisions through a network of 140+ member agencies. Agencies in turn provide groceries and/or meals to the needy at no cost to the recipient. Over 65, 000 (unduplicated count) hungry men, women and children were served last year, with many receiving emergency and/or charitable food services more than once during the year. Over 6 million pounds of food was distributed through BMFB in 2013.

Ruling year info

1987

Executive Director

Ms. Marcia Conwell

Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Joe Manasco

Main address

PO Box 5086

Gainesville, FL 32627 USA

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EIN

59-2805577

NTEE code info

Food Banks, Food Pantries (K31)

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Food-on-the-Move

Food-on-the-Move Program operations secure donated perishable, nutritionally-sound foods from retailers and wholesalers and subsequently distribute these foods to un-served and under-served communities in mobile food pantries throughout our 5-county area, and through network agencies.

Population(s) Served

At the close of the 2013-14 academic, school-year, Kid’s Café (KC) was providing over 2,500 free snacks each week through 16 after-school and day care sites as a sponsor of the Department of Health, after school snacks program. KC also sponsors a Summer Feeding Program under the Florida Department of Education – Summer Food Service Program. This summer (2014) there are 39 sites on board and prepared to serve up to 3,500 children in the course of 10 weeks.
• Expanded Summer Lunch into Marion and Suwannee Counties. Formed partnership with Alachua County Libraries to serve meals one day a week a four libraries.

Population(s) Served

• BMFB is a local administrator and distributor for the US Department of Agriculture, The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP, aka - the commodities program). Commodities are distributed through a network of 24 front-line agencies. BMFB also distributes commodities directly to individuals in a mobile food pantry venue.

Population(s) Served

• SNAP Program: Provides application assistance for qualified citizens to receive much needed financial and medical benefits. Our SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) outreach project averages 15 to 20 site visits per month as well as providing case management support and scheduled office hours to help monitor and maintain benefits.

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Affiliations & memberships

Feeding America 1987

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That in 2014 8 million pounds of benevolent and emergency food assistance will be distributed throughout our 5 counties in north central Florida.

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Bread of the Mighty Food Bank, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 04/29/2019
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Board chair

Fred Henderson

Real Estate Investment

Sparks Giebeig

Insurance

Anna James

Rosa Williams

Tony Jones

Gainesville Police Department

Debbie Boyd

John Raj

Gainesville Regional Utilities

Warren Graves

Food bank volunteer

Doreen Reid

Food bank Volunteer

Bob Gilchrist

Bob White Productions

Ed Geiser

Dennis Brucker

Hitchcock Foods

Kimberly Hines

Nationwide Insurance

Andy Vloedman

Perry, Vloedman & Brady Law Firm

Anne Voyles

Food bank volunteer

John DePaul

Mind Tree Inc.

Mackenzie Brady

Mind Tree, Inc.

Taylor Brown

City of Trenton

Mike MacKenzie

Trenton Food Pantry

Mary Sabatella

Oak Hammock