How many people a week are served by food banks?
How does this compare to a year ago or a few years ago? About 90,750 Arizonans a week are served emergency food by Arizona’s food banks. This is an unduplicated count. Emergency food may come in the form of a meal in a soup kitchen, a shelter or an emergency food box. Emergency-food-box distributions in the past six months have been significantly higher than distributions in the same months in 2006, 2007 and 2008. 3. Are you seeing different kinds of people than you used to because of the recession? This year (especially since October), we’ve seen people who are recently unemployed or they have had a downturn in income. There are numerous reports of people who previously were donors to food banks or other helping programs now forced to seek help themselves from these same agencies. 4. How can individuals or businesses help your organization? The most valuable and flexible help anyone can give food banks right now is money. Food bankers are some of the most creative professionals I know
