19772017

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK

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Greetings!This past year the Food Bank celebrated our 40th anniversary serving San Diego County. Founded in 1977, the Food Bank has been a vital resource for individuals, families and children facing hunger in communities throughout the county for four decades!

As I look back on the Food Bank’s years of service, I want to especially thank the donors who have made our mission possible. Thanks to our past supporters, we fed school children living in poverty in the 1980s who are now parents with successful careers. We were able to ensure that seniors could enjoy retirement rather than face a daily struggle with hunger. And since 1977, we are the number one organization in our community that has been providing a safety net for families who needed temporary assistance until they could get back on their feet. As a totally local organization, we are able to adapt and pivot so we can meet the community’s evolving needs.

The Food Bank is part of the fabric of our community, and I am awed by the amount that has been achieved and the legacy of this vital agency. This legacy is represented by all of the people that we have helped in difficult times who are leading successful lives now. Today, our vital mission continues as we feed working-poor families, fixed-income seniors, the homeless, low-income military families, and children living in poverty.

After four decades of service, we continue to be a trailblazing nonprofit. This year we started two pioneering new programs including our College Hunger-relief Program that provides food assistance to low-income college students and our Diaper Bank Program that provides diapers to low-income parents so they can send their children to day care, stay employed and provide for their families. Both of these programs are at the heart of our mission to help remove barriers to work and education with the ultimate goal of breaking the cycle of poverty for families in our service population.

Every day I am honored and humbled to lead such an important nonprofit that has deep roots in our community, and thanks to your support, we will continue to serve our community until we eradicate hunger from San Diego County.

Please know that you are at the heart of all we do!

Best regards,

James A. Floros President & CEO

A LETTER

from our CEO

CELEBRATING

40 years of service

1998Senior Food Program (CSFP)

distributions started

2003Food Bank moves to purpose-built

warehouse in Miramar

1981Annual Holiday Food Drive started

1992Food Bank moves to warehouse in

Liberty Station

2000Annual Thanksgiving Day Run for the Hungry 5K/10K fundraiser established

1977San Diego Food Bank founded

1977Southeast San Diego warehouse opened

1982The Emergency Food Assistance

Program (TEFAP) distributions started

2006Food 4 Kids Backpack Program launched

2009Meal Rescue Program established to rescue

soon-to-expire food from food retailers

200913.8 million pounds of food distributed

200411.8 million pounds of food distributed

2008CalFresh Outreach Program launched

2009Food Bank University education program

for nonprofit partners established

2011Jacobs and Cushman families donate

$1.76 million to pay off Food Bank mortgage

2015Food Bank acquires North County

Food Bank

20169,000-square-foot Volunteer Center opened

2017College Hunger-relief Program launched

20173,600-square-foot Recycling and

Composting Center opened

2010 AimLoan.com San Diego Blues

Festival established

20151,400 solar panels installed on

Food Bank roof

201622 million pounds of food distributed

2017Diaper Bank Program launched

201726 million pounds of food distributed

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MILESTONES PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

$1 = 5 mealsThe number of meals a $1 donation can provide to San Diegans in need.

370,000The number of people served in San Diego County by the Food Bank every month.

8 MillionPounds of fresh produce distributed in the fiscal year 2016-17.

206 The number of food distribution sites we host every month in communities throughout San Diego County.

164,137The number of children who face food insecurity in the county.

37The number of elementary schools on the Food 4 Kids Backpack Program.

494,439The number of people who face food insecurity in San Diego County.

10,574 The number of fixed-income seniors who receive a monthly 30-pound box of food on our Senior Food Program at 47 sites throughout the county.

1,733The number of elementary school children living in poverty who receive a weekend backpack full of food on our Food 4 Kids Backpack Program.

94%The percentage of your donation that goes directly to feeding programs.

99,729People served monthly by our Emergency Food Assistance Program which provides food packages at 86 distribution sites throughout the county.

31% Percentage of fresh produce distributed by the Food Bank last year.

26 MillionPounds of food distributed by the Food Bank last year.

1,978The number of households Food Bank staff and volunteers screened for CalFresh.

3,691,050Pounds of food distributed to seniors through our Senior Food Program last year.

58,939The number of hours our volunteers worked helping to inspect, sort, and package food for individuals and families in need.

90,000Total square footage of the Food Bank’s warehouse in Miramar.

26,107The number of volunteer visits to the Food Bank’s warehouse last year.

1,360,460Pounds of food raised through local food drives.

JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK

by the numbers

TOTAL

$41,480,035

TOTAL

$39,897,759

Total Net Assets: $23,082,818

Our full financial report and donor list is available online at: SanDiegoFoodBank.org/AnnualReport

This report covers the fiscal year 07/01/2016 – 06/30/2017

$23,957,692 In-Kind Contributions & Donated Food

$7,925,741 Government Commodities

$6,532,251 Private Contributions

$1,623,355 Government Grants

$461,475Shared Maintenance

$979,521Other Revenue

$37,082,113 Program Services

$2,196,422 Fundraising

$619,224 Management

Board of DirectorsBob Bolinger / Chair Entercom San Diego

Ahmed Haque / Vice Chair NRG Energy, Inc.

Sheldon Derezin / Treasurer WAXIE Sanitary Supply

Harvey C. Berger / Secretary Pope, Berger & Williams, LLP

Dana Alligood Bank of America Merrill Lynch

David Bejarano City of Chula Vista (Ret.)

Corrine Brindley SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment

Michelle Clatterbuck Intuit

Sergio Del Prado San Diego Padres

Jane Finley Kaiser Permanente

Elizabeth Fitzsimons San Diego Regional Chamber

Melissa Forrest iHeartMedia

Scott Heath Fox 5 San Diego

Chris Henn Wawanesa Insurance

Carlos Illingworth Coca-Cola Company

Kevin G. Mangan Sysco San Diego, Inc.

Ed McGuire Los Angeles Chargers

Dr. Mihir “Max” Parikh NVISION Eye Center

Ray Patel Fisher Scientific Products (Ret.)

Darrell Pilant Harrah’s Resort Southern California

Steve Rowles Morrison & Foerster

Anthony Schwarz Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Clarence Shelmon San Diego Chargers (Ret.)

Jenna Watkinson Albertsons | Vons | Pavilions

John David Wicker San Diego State University

Advisory BoardSteve Bernstein / Past Chair

Anne M. Carlson

Stephen P. Cushman / Past Chair

Doug Dawson

Aimee Faucett

Dale Ganzow

Bill Geppert

Dr. Paul Gothold, Ed.D

Bruce B. Hollingsworth / Past Chair

Vince Kasperick

Kimberley Layton

Eugene “Mitch” Mitchell / Past President

Erica Newton Fessia

Tim Ney

Honorable William C. Pate

Ed Plant

Jason Puga

Clifford “Rip” Rippetoe

Revenue

Expenses

2017 FINANCIAL

highlights

58%

94%

19%

4%

16%

2%

4%

1%

2%

9850 Distribution Avenue, San Diego, CA 92121 858.527.1419 www.SanDiegoFoodBank.org

Food Bank Warehouse Receives LEED v4 Gold Certification & Energy Star Award This year, the Food Bank became the first food warehouse in the world to receive the LEED v4 Gold award, a national green building certification. The award recognizes the Food Bank’s recent facility improvements including the installation of 1,400 solar panels on the Food Bank’s roof, a new 3,400-square-foot composting and recycling center to divert more than 600,000 pounds of waste annually from local landfills, and measures to decrease water and energy usage. In addition, the Food Bank received the EPA’s Energy Star Award with our warehouse performing better than 95% of similar facilities across the United States.

College Hunger-relief ProgramThe Food Bank launched our new College Hunger-relief Program to provide food assistance to college students from low-income and impoverished backgrounds. The program is providing food, resources, and expertise to all San Diego County colleges and universities that have feeding programs on campus for students facing food insecurity. The ultimate goal of the program is to help students stay in school so they can graduate, get a good job, and break the cycle of poverty.

Diaper Bank ProgramDiapers can be a barrier to employment for low-income parents with babies and toddlers. This is because parents must provide a day’s supply of disposable diapers to day care providers, or their children cannot be admitted, and they cannot go to work. The Diaper Bank Program was established to overcome this barrier to work. The program, inspired by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, provides donated diapers through the Food Bank’s distribution network to local, low-income parents with infants and toddlers so they can remain employed, provide for their families, and lift themselves out of poverty.

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Our full financial report and donor list is available online at: SanDiegoFoodBank.org/AnnualReport

HIGHLIGHTS AND

accomplishments

This annual report was generously donated by