Executive Summary

FFB is a well respected, trusted community institution, providing client facing programming while simultaneously establishing meaningful and strategic partnerships to address food insecurity as symptomatic of larger economic and societal injustice. By embracing our unique status as a safe haven, we run a hub model - bridging gaps between neighbors and services, promoting healthy lifestyles, providing education, preventing disease and navigating complicated systems.

Leadership intentionally seeks feedback and thought partnership directly from the people and partners we serve. We remain attuned to our community, maintain a high level of service and are dedicated to empathy, not sympathy. While others purport to embrace and connect with the cultures, people, and community they serve, we walk the walk. The FFB has turned clients into staff/volunteers, volunteers into leaders, and local organizations into partners.

On the partner level, we are open source - sharing best practices and collaborating regularly.

On the staff level, everyone is deeply valued, has a seat at our table, contributes to hard conversations, and performs self inventory through trauma-informed training and development. FFB is deeply committed to culture and atmosphere. The spirit in our space is indescribable - from lively staff meetings to our market, distributions and beyond - the only way to understand would be to visit.

We aim to lead the frontline charge of redefining what it takes to wipe out food insecurity; that means challenging the prevailing concept of what it takes to meet food needs in favor of a more individualized, holistic approach to empowerment and sufficiency.

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