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The Basics/FAQ
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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
Downloads
The Analects of Confucius
The Bible
La Biblia (en español)
The Book of Mormon
The Dhammapada
The Koran
The Tanakh
The Tao Te Ching
The Upanishads
Downloads
Videos
Stories
About
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