MASSACHUSETTS
HUMAN SERVICES WELL-BEING
 
 2007/ma_46.jpg


Children & Youth

Girls & Women

Health & Aging

Well-Being
- Centro Presente
- Franklin Park Coalition
- Neighborhood Association ...
- New Entry Sustainable Far...
- Our Space Our Place, Inc.
- Worcester Youth Center, I...
- Urban Edge Housing Corpor...
- ACCESS - Action Center fo...
- Educational Development G...
- X-Cel, Inc.
- Asian American Civic Asso...
- The Family Self-Sufficien...
- Bread of Life
- Northampton Survival Cent...
- Worcester County Food Ban...
- Duffy Health Center, Inc.
- Homes for Families
- Somerville Homeless Coali...
- Veteran Hospice Homestead...
- Planning Office for Urban...
- Legal Advocacy and Resour...
- Legal Assistance Corporat...
- National Immigration Proj...
- Community Day Center of W...


474 Boston Turnpike Road
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
508-842-3663
www.foodbank.org

Jean McMurray, Executive Director

Worcester County Food Bank, Inc.

This is a huge and complex undertaking—20 staff, nearly 700 volunteers, distributing 4.5 million pounds of donated surplus food, valued at $7 million, to its network of 200 partner agencies, serving 71,000 individuals in 60 communities of Worcester County. Founded in 1982, as a project of Catholic Charities, by 1991 they were independently incorporated; their current mission is “to engage, educate, and lead Worcester County in creating a hunger-free community.” For their 25th Anniversary, WFB and the Worcester Historical Museum have mounted a joint exhibit on hunger and society’s response to it. WCFB is obviously “engaging, educating, and leading” Worcester County in this field, and has won numerous local, state, and even national awards. Donors may ask, is immense productivity in redistributing surplus food the same as “creating a hunger-free community”? The food market has two tiers, or “harvests”: the normal wholesale-retail market we all know, and a second tier that gathers and redistributes the first tier’s surplus to many low-income consumers. Is anyone still hungry? Finding and feeding them is the job of the 200 partner agencies, but there is no comprehensive system evaluating their combined thoroughness. This will be the next and final step in defeating hunger, and WFB will be a leader—with your help.

Donate Now to Worcester County Food Bank, Inc.

    Copyright © 2007 Catalogue For Philanthropy     CONTACT US     SEARCH     CHARITY LOGIN
ID number: 07473