Programs of The All Faiths Food Bank

Hunger 101 is an interactive curriculum that explores the fundamental issues surrounding hunger. Audiences range from school age children to corporate executives.

Growing Healthy Kids is a sustainable nutrition education program for low-income, at-risk preschoolers and their families; a program that can be a national model for food banks and other organizations that work with low-income children. Growing Healthy Kids is a collaborative nutrition program that targets at-risk, low-income children and their families at childcare, preschool sites, family childcare homes, and parenting education groups. The program centers on research-based nutrition information and focuses on healthy eating habits, nutrition, food safety, physical activity, fitness promotion, and awareness of nutrition related diseases. Each month a different nutrition topic is featured, including MyPyramid, healthy snacking, and each of the five food groups.

Children's Food Assistance Program works with daycare providers to target families who already have qualified for subsidized childcare. The focus of this program is to provide families a convenient and dignified setting to receive food assistance once a month.

Kids Café provides nutritious evening meals in a safe and supportive environment to children at risk of going hungry at night. This program complements existing afterschool tutoring and study sessions.

Saturday Pantries assists people who cannot take time from work to get food when most agencies are open.

Community Harvest is a prepared and perishable food rescue program that captures our area's wealth of fresh food generated by the restaurant/hospitality industry. Refrigerated trucks deliver the food to our partner agencies.

New Beginnings Boxes filled with "basic new home supplies" such as paper products and cleaning supplies for Habitat for Humanity.

Seniors Brown Bag Program collaborates with Senior Friendship Centers who deliver monthly commodity bags to senior citizens in need.

Senior Food Assistance Program provides food assistance to low-income senior housing facilities. This is delivered and distributed on site, once a month to help ensure a balanced diet and help eliminate the "choice" of food or medicine.

USDA Commodity Distribution (TEFAP) provides food to numerous sites where commodities and other items are distributed monthly to families in need.

Turkey Distribution Program provides over 7000 turkeys to families in our area at Thanksgiving through our partner agencies.

Dinner A'Fare is a program to prevent childhood obesity and provide nutritional education for low-income, at-risk children and their families. Four sessions are given by a team including the AFFB registered dietician, and a family advocate. Twelve families participate in each session and are instructed on nutrition, label reading, menu creation and preparation. The families take home the meals.

Fresh Recovery is a program that Publix has awarded the AFFB. Fresh produce, meat and dairy products that are close to expiration are picked up by AFFB trucks on a daily basis and then quickly distributed to our partner agencies.

Staples Box Program provides food boxes to families in emergency and supplies food for a family of four for two days.