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Charity Food Programs That Can End Hunger in America
Introduction
Chapter One: Understanding “Hunger” and “Ending Hunger”
Chapter Two: Estimating Your Community’s Charity Food Needs
Chapter Three: Making Sure That Food Distribution Agencies Are Accessible to the Needy
Chapter Four: Reducing the Cost of Ending Hunger Up to 25 Percent
Chapter Five: Reduce The Cost Of Ending Hunger By Up To 90 Percent
Chapter Six: Permitting Needy People to Access Food Aid as Often as They Need
Chapter Seven: Welcome, Reassure and Comfort Clients
Chapter Eight: Offering as Much Variety as Possible
Chapter Nine: Reduce Waste and Humiliation—Let Clients Assemble Their Own Food Boxes
Chapter Ten: Offering Food When Other Help Is Not Available
Chapter Eleven: Reduce Pressure On Local Resources and Boost the Local Economy
Chapter Twelve: Get The Government To Do Its Part
Chapter Thirteen: Evaluate Your Food Pantry
Food Pantry Best Practices Evaluation Score Sheet
How to Run a Food Pantry
Introduction
Chapter 1 – What does ending hunger mean?
Chapter 2 – Finding Food
Chapter 3 – Food Handling
Chapter 4 – Clients and Hours and Intake (Oh my!)
Chapter 5 – Distribution Models
Chapter 6 – Beyond Emergency Food Aid
Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix 1 – Nutrition
Appendix 2 – Mobile Pantries
Appendix 3 – 170(e)(3), 501(c)(3) and You
Appendix 4 – What does your faith say about…?
Appendix 5 – Evaluating a Food Pantry
Mission Possible: How You Can Start and Operate a Soup Kitchen
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Getting Started
Chapter Three: Location and Facility
Chapter Four: Board and Management Leadership
Chapter Five: Marketing and Public Relations
Chapter Six: Food Acquisition and Food Safety
Chapter Seven: Food Service
Chapter Eight: Financial Management
Chapter Nine: Fundraising and Development
Chapter Ten: Staff Management
Chapter Eleven: Volunteer Recruitment and Management
Chapter Twelve: Patron Relations
Chapter Thirteen: Safety and Security
Chapter Fourteen: Expanding the Mission
Appendix A: Obtaining Nonprofit Status
Appendix B: Nonprofit Bylaws and Committee Structure
Appendix C: Typical Soup Kitchen Vendors
Appendix D: Organizations Making Grants and/or Providers of Information to Hunger Groups:
Appendix E: Further Reading on Hunger in America
Words of Faith
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