2012–2013 Annual Report

Letter from Our President and Board Chair

People We Serve

Our Partners

Our Service Area

Programs

Food Donors

Volunteers

Donors

Community Events

Advocacy and Public Policy

Finances

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Looking forward with confidence and innovation is what we do. That’s because the growing problem of hunger in Central Texas demands an attitude of hope and focus on improving the nutrition and health of each person who turns to us for help.

Today, hunger’s grasp is reaching into the suburbs and tightening around working families, seniors and children. We are positioned as the largest hunger relief charity in Central Texas to respond efficiently and with a friendly face that is desperately needed for the many families who never thought they would one day need help.

We are grateful for the support of individuals, businesses and community groups that have found ways to weave in hunger relief where they work, live, play and worship. As a result, we’re building the capacity of our partners without breaking their budget or compromising the quality of service they have come to expect from us. The 29 million pounds of food we distributed last fiscal year pushes our warehouse to 125 percent of capacity, an issue that continues to this day. This may not be ideal or sustainable, but it is a reflection of our values. It also means that we have big plans in the near future to provide a long-term

solution that reflects the needs of the community we serve.

Looking ahead, we know what needs to be done to achieve our vision of a hunger-free Central Texas and we are excited to share that with you in this report. Because of what we’ve accomplished by working together – by mobilizing our community in ending hunger – we are confident that there is no limit to the difference we can make in the lives and health of our neighbors.

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Our Mission: To nourish hungry people

and lead the community in ending hunger.

Photos by Tri D Photography

“Looking ahead, we know what needs to be done to achieve our vision of a hunger-free Central Texas.”

Hank PerretPresident & CEO

Mike Tomsu2012-13 Board Chair

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Hunger affects people from all walks of life. From families in urban centers to seniors in rural communities, more than 48,000 people rely on the Capital Area Food Bank every week for access to healthy, nutritious food.

Floydene is one of these 48,000 people. She was born and raised in San Saba, Texas, proudly living her entire life in the small town. She is often one of the first clients to arrive at the San Saba Mobile Food Pantry, sitting at the front of the line where clients queue up inside a recreation center gym.

Floydene is visually impaired, slowly losing her sight as she has gotten older. This complicates daily life for her since

her husband died several years ago. Living alone is challenging enough, not to mention affording groceries. Luckily, she has friends and neighbors to help her. Sitting next to her, another client helps her fill out the paperwork to receive food.

“I would be so lost without this,” she said as a neighbor volunteered to drive her home, carrying her groceries to her car for her and guiding her gently by her arm.

With your support the Food Bank is able to nourish seniors with limited incomes, working families struggling to make ends meet and people experiencing financial hardship.

People We Serve

“Our partnership with the Capital Area Food Bank has been tremendous,” said John Valentine, executive director of Operation Once in a Lifetime in Killeen, Texas.

“Without their assistance and their help, we wouldn’t be able to help as many people as we want to. We wouldn’t be successful.”

Operation Once in a Lifetime is one of 300 Partner Agencies across 21 counties. Our partners receive food and support from the Capital Area Food Bank, helping the Food Bank reach people in need across the region.

Over 10 percent of the Capital Area Food Bank’s Partner Agencies are based in Killeen, making it one of the largest concentrations of partners outside of the Austin metro area. Despite the immense efforts in Killeen

to meet the needs of military families, the demand is still growing.

Partner Agencies are on the front lines of hunger in their communities, working with the Food Bank to fight hunger in ways that best address their community needs. Partners rely on the Food Bank for more than just groceries for their clients.

Together, we develop effective strategies for delivering hunger relief to diverse communities, applying the Food Bank’s expertise to the partners’ local insight. The critical work of our partners is only possible with your continued support.

“If we are going to help this community, we will need the support of the Capital Area Food Bank now more than ever,” John said.

Our Partners

We would go around the world to help Central Texans at risk of hunger. In some ways, we did. In the 2012-2013 fiscal year, our trucks traveled more than 360,000 miles, delivering hunger relief across our 21-county region. This distance is equivalent to driving around the world 14 times. We go the distance to help children, seniors and families, like Jessica in Marble Falls.

“We’re making it, thanks to this place” said Jessica, a client at the Helping Center of Marble Falls, a Partner Agency of the Capital Area Food Bank.

Jessica and her husband, Jesse, were high school sweethearts and both were born and raised in Marble Falls. Together, they work hard to provide for their three children. Every day, Jesse drives over 60 miles to get to his job at a golf course. Sometimes they

struggle to put food on the table at the end of the month.

“It just doesn’t seem like his paycheck gets us very far,” Jessica said. Thanks to the support of our partner, Jessica’s family can get the healthy food they need when times are tough.

“We are so grateful,” she said. “I’d hate to think about what it would be like without this place. I’m just so grateful.”

Fulfilling the Capital Area Food Bank’s mission takes us far beyond Austin city limits, into suburban communities and rural destinations. We deliver hunger relief across Central Texas through a combination of programs and community partnerships. Your support makes it possible for the Food Bank to be on the front lines of the fight against hunger.

Our Service Area

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ProgramsCHOICES

The CHOICES Nutrition Education Program conducted 390 nutrition education classes and cooking demonstrations at 63 sites throughout Central Texas, reaching 2,375 individuals. .

HEALTHY OPTIONS PROGRAM FOR THE ELDERLY (HOPE)

The Healthy Options Program for the Elderly distributed supplemental staple groceries at 22 sites to nearly 3,700 older adults every month.

SNAP (FOOD STAMPS) OUTREACH & EDUCATION PROGRAM

Social Services Outreach Program submitted 1,415 applications for 1,774 programs and provided information on Food Bank services and SNAP eligibility to more than 25,472 individuals.

SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAMSummer Food Service Program served more than 32,380 nutritious meals and 13,258 healthy snacks to children at 57 sites across Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, and Hays County.

MOBILE FOOD PANTRYMobile Food Pantry provided 3.24 million pounds of food to more than 226,000 individuals across 35 distribution sites.

KIDS CAFEServed 222,761 nutritious meals to children at 24 sites.

FRESH FOOD FOR FAMILIES (FFFF)Fresh Food for Families provided nearly 1.5 million pounds of fresh produce to an average of 4,580 families at 20 sites every month.

Austin Independent School District

Austin Provisions Ltd

Big Red-7Up Bottling Company South Texas

Borden

Brothers Produce

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.

Circuit of the Americas

Coca-Cola

Costco Wholesale

Fredericksburg Peach Company

Frito-Lay

Goodwill Industries of Central Texas

H-E-B

Jardine Foods

Johnson’s Backyard Garden

McLane Southwest

Mondelez International

P. Terry’s Burger Stand

Pepperidge Farm

Performance Food Group

Randalls

Sam’s Club

Sodexo

Sprouts Farmers Market

Target

Trader Joe’s

US Foods

Vital Farms

Walmart

Whole Foods Market

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Less than a mile from the Capital Area Food Bank headquarters in South Austin, an unlikely group of “ladies” have joined the local fight against hunger.

“We call them our ‘ladies,” explained Dan Brooks, spokesman for local egg farmers Vital Farms. This Austin, Texas, based business produces pasture-raised organic eggs that are sold at Whole Foods Market stores nationwide. Brooks credits their success to “happy chickens,” which spend their days grazing on grass in an idyllic field.

However, not all eggs that chickens produce are able to be sold, Dan said. Due to a variety of circumstances, including regulations and retailer expectations, some eggs are simply too small to sell to the general public.

Vital Farms’ problem is not unique to their operation.

The Capital Area Food Bank has developed a solution for local farms and businesses like Vital Farms by creating a unique opportunity to donate fresh, healthy

food. Food Bank staff members work with local businesses to identify healthy food and work to find a safe way for the businesses to donate to the Food Bank. So, rather than compost or dispose of their chickens’ eggs, Vital Farms donates this healthy protein for Central Texans at risk of hunger.

“We don’t want to waste what is an incredible resource,” Dan said. “The Food Bank lets us donate the eggs that are of no use to us and enables access for people who would not normally have access to such a great source of protein.”

In the 2012-2013 fiscal year, the Food Bank rescued more than 13 million pounds of perishable, nutritious food items from local and national grocery store chains. Helping fight hunger in Central Texas is a reflection of Vital Farms’ values.

“Everything we do at Vital Farms is a community effort,” Dan said. “As a business, we are a part of the community. For us, that means supporting the community.”

Food Donors

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“For my family, filling those bags isn’t a chore, an obligation or a duty; it is an honor,” said Sarah Holman, a volunteer at Shepherd’s Heart Food Pantry in Taylor.

When Sarah’s father lost his job in 2001, her family had to turn to the food pantry for assistance. Sarah knows the pain of hunger and how hard it is for people to get help. Since her father has found a new job and the family is back on its feet, they all volunteer together. Every Saturday, the Holman family packs sandwiches and groceries for the families in need in Taylor.

Volunteers at the Food Bank know the face of hunger well. From a workplace group

packing and moving heavy boxes filled with nutritious food, to a high school student carrying out groceries to a senior client’s car, our volunteers are the smiling face and helpful hand that make a tough day brighter.

In the 2012-2013 fiscal year, community volunteers donated over 96,000 hours of their time to fighting hunger.

Volunteer support is vital in helping us remain effective and efficient, thus increasing our impact across the community. Your support brings comfort to people struggling with hunger through hunger relief programs or by being the smiling face that delivers groceries to someone in need.

Volunteers

AMD

Austin CPA

Breakthrough Austin

Christ Lutheran Church

Dell

Deloitte Impact Day of Service

Dimensional Fund Advisors

E&J Gallo Winery

Ernst & Young

For the City

Freescale

General Motors

Girl Scouts

Hewlett Packard

Interactions Corporation

KingsIsle Entertainment

KIPP Austin

LCAE

Little Helping Hands

Lower Colorado River Authority

National Charity League - Capital of Texas Chapter

National Charity League - Hills of Austin Chapter

National Instruments

Oak Hill Elementary

Regents School of Austin

Rudy’s Bar-B-Q

St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church

Target

Vista Ridge High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps

VMWare

Top 30

“Hunger has to be the first battle we fight before any other,” said Ann Stanislaw, Director of Carolyn J. and Robert J. Allison Jr. Family Foundation. “If a child does not have good food to eat, he can’t learn; he can’t behave; he can’t thrive.” Ann began supporting the Food Bank when she learned about hunger in her own community of Milam County.

“Milam County has a very big hungry population and the Food Bank has been supporting us without many donations from our community for many years,” Ann said. After learning that the Food Bank serves more than just the Austin metro area, Ann – as the director of a family foundation and president of the Milam Community Foundation – challenged her community to get involved.

“Feeding the hungry is about building

partnerships that create healthy, nutritionally balanced meals which support physical development and mental well-being for all ages,” Ann said.

With the support of donors like Ann, the Capital Area Food Bank is able to develop innovative programming that delivers healthy, nutritious food to people in need, effectively and efficiently. With experts in hunger relief on staff and by leveraging community resources, the Food Bank makes the most of donor support. Every $1 donation delivers $5 worth of groceries to families in need.

“Nothing has ever been built on an empty stomach,” said Ann. “To invest in feeding families is to invest in a bright future.”

Your support makes a bright future possible for people struggling with hunger across Central Texas.

Donors

Aetna Foundation Inc.

Applied Materials

Austin Community Foundation

Austin Empty Bowl Project

Austin Professional Landmen’s Association

Austin Reggae Festival

Beaumont Foundation of America

Brown Distributing Company

Bryant and Esther Burke

Capital Area Food Bank Foundation

Cathy and Dwight Thompson Foundation

Cisco

David Newberger

Dell

Earthshare of Texas

Feeding America

H-E-B

IBM Employee Services Center

Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust

John and Melissa Zapp

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lola Wright Foundation

Milam County Community Foundation

National Instruments

Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation

St. David’s Foundation

Stark Martin Charitable Trust

The Link Foundation

Topfer Family Foundation

Walmart Foundation

Top 30

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At Round Rock ISD’s Elsa England Elementary School, third grade teacher Rachael Brunson wanted to bring the issue of child hunger into the classroom. “The face of hunger is misunderstood,” she explained.

She developed a year-long experiential learning project to educate her students on the issue of hunger in their community and to empower them to take action. With the support of an education grant from Sodexo, the third grade class developed community service projects, educated their peers on the issue of hunger and even raised more than $7,000 for hunger relief in Central Texas.

Together, the children learned about

hunger in their own community and took action to fight it. The project did more than impact hunger relief in Central Texas. It changed how the students saw themselves.

“My students realize that they do have a voice and they can make a difference,” Rachael explained.

Community members from all walks of life take action every day. Capital Area Food Bank benefits from 1,000 community events each year. From local traditions like the Austin Reggae Festival to canned food drives at a church, the Food Bank relies on this support in the fight against hunger.

Together, community events raised more than 2.5 million meals for Central Texans struggling with hunger in our last fiscal year.

Community Events

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Hunger in our community is a complicated issue. The Capital Area Food Bank acknowledges that hunger is a symptom of other societal problems such as economic conditions, poverty and unemployment. Other issues, including food inflation, healthcare and social service support, also affect the length of food lines throughout Central Texas and beyond.

Your Food Bank works with elected officials, local governments and community stakeholders to develop and deliver meaningful solutions. Given our high profile among the Texas network of food banks and proximity to the Texas State Capitol, the Food Bank has taken a leading role in advocating for public policy issues affecting people at risk of hunger. From engaging U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary

Kevin Concannon on national nutrition programs to working with Texas State Rep. Eddie Lucio to pass the School Breakfast Bill, the Capital Area Food Bank is leading the fight against hunger in our community.

The Capital Area Food Bank works in partnership with other organizations and entities sharing this common agenda, including Feeding America and the Texas Food Bank Network. We work together to introduce stakeholders and decision makers to the face of hunger in our community.

Your support is vital to our ability to make a difference in the community. As a supporter of the Food Bank, you make it possible for us to highlight hunger as the Number 1 issue impacting our community today.

Advocacy & Public Policy

$61,102,274

$57,538,305

$864,133

$1,314,207

Revenue

Expenses

Program Services

Management and General

Fundraising

Total Expenses

Total Public Support and Revenue

$59,716,645

$1,385,629

$15,015,469

Surplus

Net Assets at End of Year

Finances

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Who supports the Food Bank?

52%Religious and Service Organizations

Campaign

Foundations

Businesses

Special Eventsand Other

Individuals

9%

10%

2%

11%16%

1.45%

Where do resources go?

96.35%

2.2%

Program Services

Fundraising

Management and General

Where does the food come from?

29%U.S. Department of Agriculture Commodities

42%Food RescuePickup program

9%PurchasedFood

20%All Other

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Mike Tomsu, Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Heidi Baschnagel, Vice Chair, National Instruments Corporation

Melissa Mitchell, Treasurer, Ernst & Young

Vanessa Downey-Little, Secretary, City of Austin, Retired

Melissa Anthony Sinn, anthonyBarnum Public Relations

John Cyrier, Sabre Commercial Inc.

Matt Dow, Jackson Walker LLP

Mark Downing, Intersil Corporation

Mohamed el-Hamdi, Ph.D., Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC

Kenneth Gladish, Ph.D., Seton Foundations

Terry G. Knighton

Joyce Mullen, Dell Inc.

John Sanchez, Wells Fargo Bank N.A.

Sheldy Starkes, MBA, PMP, Booker, Starkes, & Patodia, Inc.

Leslie Sweet, H-E-B Grocery Company LP

Catherine P. Thompson, Motion Computing Inc.

Jason Thurman, PlainsCapital Bank

Mark J. Williams

2012–2013 Board