3300 Route 66, Neptune NJ 07753About Hunger
Frequently Used Terms
- Feeding America
- national network of over 200 food banks and food rescue organizations. The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties is a member food bank of Feeding America.
- Food Bank
- a charitable organization that solicits, receives, inventories, stores and distributes donated food and grocery products to charitable agencies that directly serve needy clients.
- Food pantry
- an agency that distributes non-prepared food and other groceries to needy clients, who then prepare and use these items where they live.
- 501(c)3
- private, nonprofit corporation with charitable intent as described in the IRS code Section 501(c)3, and to which donations are tax-deductible. The FoodBank is a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
- Food Insecure
- lack of access to enough food to fully meet basic needs at all times
- Hunger
- the physical condition that results from not eating enough food due to lack of economic resources.
- NJ Federation of Foodbanks
- the association of five food banks in New Jersey, each of which is a separate 501(c) 3 nonprofit, with independent boards, fundraising, accounting, and service areas. View the members.
- SFPP
- The State Food Purchase Program, initiated by Gov. Corzine in 2006, provides food banks in New Jersey with funds to purchase nutritious food to supplement donations.
- Shelter
- an agency that provides shelter and serves one or more meals a day on a short-term basis to low income clients in need. These may be homeless shelters, shelters with substance abuse programs, transitional shelters and shelters for battered women.
- Soup kitchen
- an agency that provides prepared meals served at the kitchen to needy clients who do not reside on the premises.
- TEFAP
- The Emergency Food Assistance Program purchases surplus commodities from US growers and distributors, and distributes these to food banks throughout the nation.