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The Food Bank of Central Louisiana

Alexandria, LA   |  http://www.fbcenla.org

Mission

The Food Bank's mission is to alleviate hunger in Central Louisiana.

Ruling year info

1990

Principal Officer

Jayne Wright-Velez

Main address

3223 Baldwin Ave

Alexandria, LA 71301 USA

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EIN

72-1154072

NTEE code info

Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs (K30)

Food Banks, Food Pantries (K31)

IRS filing requirement

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Across the Food Bank of Central Louisiana's 11-parish service area, 20% of the population is food insecure - 30,000 of them are children. The Food Bank of Central Louisiana, through all of its programs, serves more than 62,000 people each month, but we know there is more work to be done. The vast majority served by the Food Bank earn at or below the federal poverty line which is income per year of $16,588 per individual.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Partner Agency Program

The Food Bank distributes more than 9 million pounds of donated food and grocery products annually through a network of 161 partner agencies in eleven parishes. This serves more than 42,500 food insecure people each month.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people

The BackPack Program is designed to meet the needs of hungry children at times when other resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations. The backpacks are filled with food that children take home from school on Friday afternoons to provide food for the weekend. The food is child-friendly, nonperishable, and easily consumed. .

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Children and youth

The Food Bank of Central Louisiana’s Adopt-A-Senior program provides impoverished senior citizens with 50 pounds of food every month for 12 months. The Food Bank’s Senior program currently serves more than 1,200 seniors in the Central Louisiana area.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Seniors

The Good Food Project teaches sustainable gardening practices in the demonstration garden at the Food Bank. All of the fresh, organic produce grown here is distributed to Food Bank clients. Additionally, the Good Food Project supports more than 75 satellite, youth, and community gardens in the parishes served by the Food Bank of Central Louisiana.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Adults

The Mobile Pantry Program sends food and groceries into communities where other services are few or do not exist. In many rural, underserved communities, the Food Bank’s Mobile Pantry Program is the only option for residents to access charitable food assistance on a regular and dependable schedule.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people

The School Pantry Program will play a crucial role in providing children and their families with access to food for preparation at home when other resources such as free and reduced price school meals are not available.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Children and youth

Where we work

Affiliations & memberships

Feeding America

Videos

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of meals served or provided

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

We distributed 9,500,000 pounds which is enough food for about 8,000,000 meals.

Total pounds of food rescued

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of weekend meals served to low income students

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

BackPack Program

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

The Food Bank of Central Louisiana's mission is to alleviate hunger in central Louisiana. In order to fulfill our mission, the organization is working to meet these strategic goals: Distribute more food, build member agency capacity, expand funding, strengthen food bank operations, and develop a strong team.

Distribute more food - increase cold storage capacity, increase mobile pantry distribution, expand retail donation program, establish food drive with faith-based community, expand school food pantry program. Build member agency capacity - evaluate member agency strengths and capacity and assess annually, create plan of action for agency growth and succession, and determine agencies storage capacity and seek funding to support agency capacity building. Engage the community - develop marketing and communications plan, access and adjust plan annually, develop key messages to tell the Food Bank story, successfully conclude the capital campaign, expand grant funds to expand programming and food distribution, can increase the number of volunteers and donors. Strengthen operations - conduct assessment of equipment, determine technology recourses and operational/administrative processes, secure an expert resource to assist in streamlining workflow, and maintain policies, processes and training required to meet all food safety certification standards. Develop a strong team - evaluate staffing structure and update as needed to support our growth, continue to implement best practices for board engagement and development, and identify volunteer roles needed in new facility and recruit volunteers to fill those needs.

The Food Bank of Central Louisiana has a 30 year track record of operation. During the past 30 years, the Food Bank has created and modified programs in order to meet the needs of the clients and the organization. The Food Bank staff works to accept, process, warehouse, and distribute food throughout our 11-parish service on a daily basis. This is done so through many different programs and procedures, using staff members with a wide range of expertise and experience. The Food Bank of Central Louisiana is able to distribute more than 11 million pounds of food annually with the coordinated efforts of the 14 full-time and 11 part-time staff.

The Food Bank of Central Louisiana recently completed our 3 year strategic plan, so many of our goals and objectives were just established. Our organization recently completed our $3.5 million capital campaign to increase our capacity to store and distribute more food throughout our service area.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • Who are the people you serve with your mission?

    The US Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as lacking “consistent, dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living.” According to the USDA’s most recent estimates, 10.5% of people experience food insecurity. In Louisiana, that rate is 14.8%. The Central Louisiana region exceeds the state average, with 15.4% – about one in six – of our neighbors living in food-insecure households. Poverty and hunger are not new to Central Louisiana. While the current historically high inflation has made matters worse, chronic poverty and food insecurity have existed across the region for decades. With food grocery costs up more than ten percent over the last year, there is increased pressure on areas of high need and low access where consistent services typically do not exist.

  • How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?

    Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person),

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client 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,

  • With whom is the organization sharing feedback?

    Our staff, Our board, Our funders,

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people,

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback,

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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The Food Bank of Central Louisiana

Board of directors
as of 12/29/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Kent Lachney

Louisiana State University - Alexandria

Term: 2019 - 2024


Board co-chair

Connie Sutton

Retired Schoolteacher

Term: 2019 - 2024

Kent Lachney

LSUA

Joe Gardner

Lottie Bash

Cornelia Sutton

Gary Brown

Brian Couvillon

Marie Simpson

Robert Willett

Ronny Briley

Christina Hathorn

Tim Holloway

Krystal Rachal

Mandy Scoggin

Todd St.Romain

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 12/28/2022
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability