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| THE FOOD BANK GETS A NEEDED NEW START
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July 22, 2007 - After more than a year of turmoil, the San Diego Food Bank, like its parent
Neighborhood House, is also under new, businesslike management. With Mitch
Mitchell in the lead, its board is delving into every aspect of the
operation, from where to get the food to how to keep recipients honest to
how many men, women and children throughout the county can't always feed
themselves and when they need help.
Despite reduced staff, it still managed to distribute last year more food -
11.6 million pounds - than the year before.
By this year's end, the food bank may be entirely independent of
Neighborhood House, which has seen not only the need to part company but to
cooperate as much as possible toward that end. And the two have agreed on
most points of contention.
The food bank will pay rising rents for several years to Neighborhood House
on a dispute warehouse, then decide its ultimate ownership. Food bank board
members will represent only the food bank. And as early as this fall, the
state may switch $2 million in state food contracts now held by Neighborhood
House to the food bank.
The board's goal is not only to distribute 25 million pounds of food
annually but to establish countywide collaborations with other food banks,
suppliers, even health care providers.
Like Neighborhood House, the food bank now has a commitment to its sorely
needed core service, and the crew to see it through. |
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