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Tammy Leonard

North Texas Food Bank Hunger Center Partnership

An example of leveraging our joint expertise.

What we did•Observed a puzzle: low income people eating

very healthy, but reporting to shop at convenience stores.

•What was missing? Non-profit food providers

•Partnered with NTFB to identify non-profit providers and developed new survey questions to understand food acquisition from both commercial and non-profit sources

Charitable Food Providers• 38 Charitable Food Providers serving the Fair

Park Neighborhood• 33.5% of respondents received food from at

least one pantry in the last 6 months

33.33%

28.21%

38.46%

Frequency of Visits

At Least 10 Visits

5-9 Visits

Less Than 5 Visits

Charitable Food Providers• 65% of those who received food from a charitable

food source within the last 6 months visited:▫Community Baptist Church▫Child Care Group MLK▫Peoples Missionary Baptist Church▫Cornerstone Baptist Church▫Good Street Baptist Church▫Exline Park▫Mt. Olive Lutheran Church▫St. Luke United Methodist Church▫Dallas Bethlehem Center▫YMCA

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Some Considerations…•What’s next:

▫ How do the results inform what is being done locally?

•How can we leverage our joint expertise to inform..▫New questions?▫Better interpretation of current results?▫New solutions coupled with robust

analysis?