Ozarks Food Harvest has a mission of Transforming Hunger into Hope. This simple statement serves as a meaningful summary of Ozarks Food Harvest's goal to supply as much food as possible to individuals in need. The Food Bank rescues, warehouses, processes and distributes food and supplies to 270 nonprofit hunger-relief organizations in 28 counties, reaching 30,000 children, families and seniors weekly.
Founded in 1983, Ozarks Food Harvest is the Feeding America food bank for southwest Missouri. The Food Bank distributes 15 million meals annually, made possible with a network of member charities and direct-relief programs, such as the Weekend Backpack Program, After-School and Summer Food programs and Mobile Food Pantry program. Ozarks Food Harvest's facility, the O'Reilly Center for Hunger Relief, holds a superior food safety rating from AIB International.
Ozarks Food Harvest has a mission of Transforming Hunger into Hope. This simple statement serves as a meaningful summary of Ozarks Food Harvest's goal to supply as much food as possible to individuals in need. The Food Bank rescues, warehouses, processes and distributes food and supplies to 270 nonprofit hunger-relief organizations in 28 counties, reaching 30,000 children, families and seniors weekly.
Founded in 1983, Ozarks Food Harvest is the Feeding America food bank for southwest Missouri. The Food Bank distributes 15 million meals annually, made possible with a network of member charities and direct-relief programs, such as the Weekend Backpack Program, After-School and Summer Food programs and Mobile Food Pantry program. Ozarks Food Harvest's facility, the O'Reilly Center for Hunger Relief, holds a superior food safety rating from AIB International.
Ozarks Food Harvest has a stated mission of Transforming Hunger into Hope™. This simple statement serves as a meaningful summary of Ozarks Food Harvest's goal to supply as much food as possible to individuals in need. The Food Bank rescues, warehouses, processes and distributes food and supplies to 270 nonprofit hunger-relief organizations across one-third of the state of Missouri, reaching 30,000 children, families, and seniors weekly. It is Ozarks Food Harvest's goal to supply as much food as possible to individuals in need.
What are your strategies for making this happen?
In order to supply as much food as possible to individuals in need, Ozarks Food Harvest has enacted three-year strategic initiative goals. They include increasing healthy food to partner agencies and individuals, increasing capacity of the hunger-relief network and mobilizing the public. The goal is to supply as much quality food as possible to individuals in need, which will shrink the Meal Gap, or the number of meals needed to create food security to all individuals in need across the Ozarks.
What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?
Founded in 1983, Ozarks Food Harvest's ability to build partnerships and improve the efficiency of our food distribution network means member agencies can serve more of the hungry who come to them for help. Much of The Food Bank's success can be attributed to continual development of community partnerships. Thousands of people would literally go without food if it wasn't for The Food Bank.
How will your organization know if you are making progress?
The Food Bank has seen the number of clients seeking food assistance grow from 53,000 individuals in 2007 to 155,000 in 2009, and currently 261,000 annually. In order to respond to this need, nearly 1. 4 million pounds of food and supplies are distributed each and every month to member agencies and programs. Ozarks Food Harvest measures progress in the number of meals provided and individuals served, which continues to increase annually.
What have and haven't you accomplished so far?
Ozarks Food Harvest works continuously to ensure every food insecure individual in the Ozarks is not forced to go to bed hungry. While the Food Bank provides 15 million meals annually, this is not enough. Ozarks Food Harvest works towards to time when there are no more food insecure individuals in the Ozarks.
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Program names and associated costs are listed for the top programs as reported on the charity's most recently filed Form 990. The top programs displayed will include the largest three programs, or those programs covering at least 60% of the charity's total expenses, whichever comes first.
Program Name
Amount Spent
% of Program Expenses
Food Distribution
$26,703,961
100.0%
Ratings History Ozarks Food Harvest has received 6 consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator.
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes. 509(a)(2)
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations).
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