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Posted on May 30, 2013September 25, 2014 by Jeff Thomas

The average family needs groceries 2.2 times per week. Unfortunately, many food pantries only serve people once per month.

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      • 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
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