March 2016 - Hoosier Hills Food Bank

Hungry for
Change
March 2016
News from the Hoosier Hills Food Bank
2333 W Industrial Park Dr / P.O. Box 697 / Bloomington, IN 47402 / 812-334-8374 / www.hhfoodbank.org
3.76 Million Pounds Made 2015 HHFB’s 2nd Biggest Year
On the heels of the largest distribution month in our 33 year history (December), Hoosier Hills Food
Bank ended 2015 having distributed 3,766,104 pounds of food. While this fell about 7.6% short of
last year’s record distribution, it still marked the second highest year ever for HHFB.
We announced our year end totals and issued our 2015 Annual Report at a luncheon on March 11,
and the report details the highlights of last year in all aspects of our programs and operations. It is
available online at our website, www.hhfoodbank.org, or a hard copy will be mailed on request to
[email protected].
Unfortunately, distribution was down due to a significant drop in incoming food. We received over
526,000 pounds less food last year, with substantial drops in important food sources like federal
commodities (-4%), local food donors (-15%), national network donors (-20%) and local garden
fresh food sources (-28%). Purchased food was the only overall category showing an increase, of 3%.
Despite those challenges, however, we distributed a significant amount
of food, including over 847,000 pounds of fresh produce, 22% of our
total. We also passed two important biennial audits – our Feeding
America compliance audit and the AIB International third party
food safety audit. And, we successfully hosted our first (and the
community’s 32nd) annual book fair and saw a record number of
volunteer hours recorded.
Your support, along with that of thousands of food and financial
donors, volunteers and community partners made it possible for
us to overcome challenges and provide important services in 2015.
Please take a moment to review our annual report and see what
your help allowed us to achieve. We have some exciting plans
and strategies to tell you about over the coming months and we’ll
need your support again in 2016!
In This Issue...
Welcome New Staff (p. 2)
March Against Hunger (p. 3)
IU Health Food Drive (p. 3)
Soup Bowl (p. 4)
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Welcome Dex and Tyler!
This month, we’re happy to welcome two new additions to the HHFB staff!
Member Agency Coordinator, Dex Conaway
Dex comes to HHFB with a breadth of experience, having worked in the
organic food industry since 1999. As an Inspector/Program Manager, Dex
worked with a USDA-certified organic certification company, and he also
has experience as a grower of organic foods. A passionate environmental
and social justice activist, Dex has also devoted his time to ending hunger
through social change. While away from the office, Dex enjoys camping and
hiking. In Indiana, his favorite destination is Clifty Falls. Outside of Indiana,
he also enjoys visiting Appalachia and the Rocky Mountain National Park.
As Member Agency Coordinator, Dex is looking forward to connecting with
HHFB’s agencies to help get food to those who need it!
Food Rescue Driver, Tyler Steury
Tyler is very excited to be a Food Banker and have the opportunity to help the
community for a living. Most recently, Tyler was living in Phoenix, Arizona. He
is happy to return home to Bloomington and is enjoying the Indiana winter!
Tyler recently completed his Bachelor’s Degree at Arizona State University, in
Conservation Biology and Ecology, and he is currently working on a Master’s
Degree in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Management.
Tyler has been very happily married for six years, and he has a wild one-yearold daughter, named Lily. His favorite hobbies are sports, watching movies,
hiking, camping, laying in hammocks, and sitting in hot-tubs. He also loves to
travel, and he has visted all 50 states and 20 countries.
Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry Receives $25,000 Grant
Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) received a $25,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation’s
State Giving Program at the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. FHFH gives hunters and farmers in Indiana the
opportunity to donate deer and livestock to over 29 participating butcher shops for processing and
distribution to food banks, shelters, soup kitchens and ministries that feed the hungry.
“We are very grateful for this contribution which
will assist our chapters in their efforts to enable
hunters and farmers provide protein-rich meat to
the hungry of Indiana. The Walmart Foundation is
a wonderful partner in our mission to address the
problem of hunger in Indiana and across America.”
-FHFH Executive Director Josh Wilson
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IU Health Food Drive
National Association of Letter Carriers
Hoosier Hills Food Bank would like to thank Indiana
University Health for again hosting its campuswide food drive to benefit HHFB. This food drive
has raked in over 12,000 lbs of food before, and
we hope it can be a great success again. Also, IU
student athletes will be collecting food at Kroger
Jackson Creek on March 12th! You are invited to
come donate to HHFB and visit with the student
athletes! We depend on big food drives like this to
get us through the year. We are glad
to see that even through staffing and
business changes, IU Health sees the
significance of this food drive and is
continuing to push it forward.
This May 14th, the National Association of Letter
Carriers (NALC) will hold their annual Stamp Out
Hunger Food Drive. Please place a bag of food
next to or on your mailbox for us to pick up. HHFB
depends on this, our largest food drive, to carry us
through the summer months. We will also need
volunteers to help collect the
food.
For more information, contact
Ryan Jochim at volunteer@
hhfoodbank.org or call (812)
334-8374.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller Kicks Off Annual March Against Hunger
For the 8th consecutive year, the Indiana Attorney General’s Office is working
with the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA) and Feeding Indiana’s Hungry
(FIsH) on a food drive competition. Throughout the month of March, attorneys,
law firms, local bar chapters and law schools are encouraged to help Indiana’s
regional food banks to place food on the tables of struggling Indiana residents.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller kicked off the 2016 March Against
Hunger at the Hoosier Hills Food Bank, challenging law firms
throughout Indiana to participate in a state-wide competition.
All competitors are asked to collect non-perishable food and
monetary donations for Indiana’s 11 regional food banks.
Since 2009, March Against Hunger has raised a total of over
60,000 pounds of food and nearly $300,000 for Indiana food
banks. Hoosier Hills Food Bank was very proud to host Zoeller for
the 2016 kick-off and greatly appreciates the help
of Zoeller and participating lawyers throughout the
state.
This is a great opportunity for local law firms to do
some fundraising and collect food for Hoosier Hills
Food Bank. In the past 4 years, our winner has been
Stephen Douglas, a sole proprietor from Ellettsville. We
appreciate the continued support from Stephen, the
Attorney General and the Indiana State Bar Association.
For more information about
March Against Hunger:
http://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/2773.htm
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Bloomington Pi(e) Run
This year’s Pi(e) run is taking place on
March 12th, 2016. Participants can walk
or run, eat pastries and pie afterwards,
and experience some classic pi-related
puns. This great community event is free to
participants! Any donations
(food or financial) go to the
Hoosier Hills Food Bank.
For more information, visit:
www.pirunbloomington.com
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Soup Bowl 2016
This year’s soup bowl was a great success! We are so grateful
for the sponsors, restaurants, musicians, committee members,
volunteers, attendees, and donors who helped make this year’s
Soup Bowl a spectacular event. Restaurants provided us with
over 40 soups to sample, and nearly 40 potters provided the
bowls for the event.
The numbers are in, and we are happy to have raised $98,215
to help us provide food to those in need! Each year, we are
honored to host this great Bloomington tradition, which brings
together so many generous
community members.
Thanks again for all your
support – and we look
forward to seeing you next
year!
Thank you to the Soup Bowl Benefit Planning Committee for making this event possible!
Laurel Adams, Julio Alonso, Jennifer Bass, Jake Bruner, Karen Green Stone, Gail Hale, Suzanne Halvorsen, Michael Hamburger,
Michelle Henderson, Judy Klein, Robert Meitus, Carrie Newcomer, Carol Seaman, Rob Stone, Dan Taylor, Marcia Veldman,
Licia Weber
20/20 Food Drive Update
Although 2015 was a challenging year for donations for HHFB there were a couple bright spots and one
of those was the 20/20 food drive campaign. Through donor outreach and a great community response
we were able to have over 40 new food drives raising over 30,000 lbs. of food during the 20/20 campaign.
This is absolutely outstanding and I know some of you reading this now are among those to help pull this
off. So, thank you so much! I know our agencies and the clients
they serve are very appreciative of the amount and variety of
food we have had on hand to start 2016. Participating businesses
included Baxter, Summers Plumbing, MCCSC, St. Charles School,
Printpack, and Bloom Marketing, just to name a few. We hope
that although the campaign has ended, this will not mean the
end to new and increased food drives.
Don’t wait to host your own food drive at your local business!
Contact Jake at [email protected] or call (812)334-8374.
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Thank you to our 2016 Corporate
Sponsors for making this event possible.
Yvonne
Cripps
Benefactor: Marsha Bradford & Harold Dumes, Beth & Fred Cate,
Center of Southern Indiana, Grease Monkey, ISU The May Agency,
Mann Plumbing Inc., Monet,Miri,Esme & Rey, Premier Healthcare,
International Studies, Stumpners Building Services, Tim & Young
Ae Tresslar, World Wide Auto
Special
thanks to
our gold level
Dan Conkle, The Eye
sponsors!
Dr. Mary
Mahern,
School of Global and
Donor: First Insurance Group, Rob Fischman, Chris Gaal & Beth
Florini, Lahn Law LLC, Jeff & Janet Stake, Marcia Veldman, Women’s
Alliance of the UU Church
Patron: Fred Ahman, Bloom Bank, Bunger & Robertson,
Clendening, Johnson, & Bohrer PC, Deer Park Management, Duke
Energy, Ferguson Law, Michael Hamburger & Jenny Bass, Faith Hawkins & Glenda Schulz, Hoosier Energy, Sarah Jane Hughes
& A. James Barnes, IU Health Center Staff, Sylvia McNair, Robert Meitus & Carrie Newcomer, Old National Bank, Robling Law
LLC, South Central Indiana REMC, Woodforest Bank
Potters:
Scott Barton, Laurel Bender, Kris Busch, Sarah Callon, Ruth Conway, Cindy Duffy, Amanda Durham, Adam Egenolf, Leanne
Ellis, Harold Evans, Kayla Fields, Karen Green Stone, Libby Gwynn, Heather Haddad, Jim Halvorson, Rebekah R. Hamilton,
Thomas Harris, Jessica Hurt, Erik Jacobson, Chizuko Johnson, Mika Liechti-Hawkins, Rebecca Lowrey, Barb Lund, Rebcecca
Luzier, Ed McEndarfer, Marcy Neiditz, Connie Nelson Laird, Milton Nolin, Susy O’Donnell, Iris Peterson, Walt Schmidt, Juanita
Shelton, Daria Smith, Susan Snyder, Larry Spears, Melanie D. Stafford, Cindy Stone, Phillisha D. Wathen, Indiana University
Ceramics Guild, Ivy Tech-Waldron Ceramic Department, North High School Ceramics Students
Restaurants:
Anyetsang’s Little Tibet, Bear’s Place, Bloomingfoods Market and Deli, Bloomington Center for Global Children, Brothers Bar
and Grill, Butch’s Grillacatessen and Eatzeria, Community Kitchen Sponsored by Fischer Farms, Darn Good Soup, Dats Cajun
Creole Café, Feast Bakery Café, Function Brewing, Good Life / Runcible Spoon, Grazie Italian Eatery, IU Health Bloomington
Hospital, Juannita’s, Laughing Planet, Lennie’s, Malibu Grill, Michael’s Uptown Café, Nick’s English Hut, No Coast Reserve,
Player’s Pub, Quaff On! Bloomington, Rush Hour Station, Sahara Mart, Samira, Scholar’s Inn Gourmet Café, Siam House,
Sodexo IMU Catering, Sofra Café, Sterling House of Bloomington, Sweet Grass, Taste of India, Terry’s Banquets and Catering,
The Owlery, The Trojan Horse, The Village Deli, Turkuaz Café, Upland Brewing Co., Yogi’s Grill & Bar
Bread and Cookies:
Aver’s Pizza, Baked!, Bloomington Bagel Co. Kroger Seminary Square, Lucky’s Market, Panera Bread, Pizza X, Rainbow
Bakery, Scholar’s Inn Bakehouse, Sugar & Spice Sodexo, Troyer Foods
Beer, Wine and Coffee:
Oliver Winery, Soma Coffee House, Upland Brewing Company
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Hoosier Hills Food Bank
P.O. Box 697
Bloomington, IN 47402
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 812.334.8374
Fax: 812.334.8377
www.hhfoodbank.org
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Our Mission:
Hoosier Hills Food Bank collects, stores,
and distributes nutritious food products
to nonprofit organizations, which provide
free feeding programs that serve both ill
and needy families and individuals.
Taking the Hunger out of Poverty
Kroger Community Rewards Program
Shop at Kroger? Sign up today and part of your spending will come back to Hoosier Hills Food Bank!
Just register your Kroger Plus card at the website below and Kroger will donate 2 percent of your bill
to HHFB each time you shop. It takes just a second, and our ID number is 28259!
https://www.kroger.com/communityrewards
HHFB ID Number: 28259
Renew Your Enrollment
If you signed up prior to January 1st, 2016, your enrollment has expired. Please
take a moment to sign in and renew your enrollment.
Board of Directors:
Chuck Cooksey, Maurice Garnier, Chris Gray, Nita Horrar, Nancy Kaster, George Huntington, Jessica
McClellan, Trina Mescher, Jeremy O’Leary, Adrian Reid, Margie Rice, Kevin Robling, Tom Ruemler, Scott
Shackleford, Everett Southern
Staff:
Julio Alonso, Angeline Bickner, Bobbi Boos,Willis Bruce, Jake Bruner, Dex Conaway, Courtney Drescher,
Kelly Fraser, Laura Gambrel, Marshall Gardner, Ryan Jochim, Ben Mescher, Donn Middleton, Casey
Steury, Tyler Steury, Dan Taylor, Brad Williams, Marina Young
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