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Between July 1, 2004 and June 30, 2005, the FoodBank provided 3.4 million pounds of emergency food to over 270 feeding programs run by local charities, throughout all of Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Programs include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters for homeless or abused persons, after school programs for children and day and residential programs for low income children, elderly and disabled. Emergency Food is provided to families in need through the following programs.
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The General Distribution Program provides charities with donated food from our warehouse. Charities order and pick up quantities of food they need from a food list, and later package the items for local families themselves. |
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Family Box Program distributes prepackaged boxes of foods to pantries and distribution programs. Boxes contain items sufficient for different size households to make meals for several days. Picture depicts food to accompany turkey for one holiday meal. |
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Second Helping delivers frozen, prepared meals to soup kitchens and shelters, previously collected from surplus meals available at area restaurants and caterers. |
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The Food Delivery Program delivers food directly to charities which do not have the vehicles and manpower to pick up large amounts of food themselves. |
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After School Program delivers hot meals prepared daily by our onsite kitchen and culinary trainees, to the after school program of the Monmouth County Boys and Girls Club. |
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The FoodBank receives perishable and nonperishable donated food from many sources, including the USDA, national food companies and local donors. In addition, about 10% of the food in our warehouse comes from a Co-op program, which purchases foods that are needed by charities, but are not available as donations at any given time. Foods are purchased in bulk at well below retail prices.
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