Capital Area Food Bank
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| Formation | October 24, 1979 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
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| Headquarters |
Michigan Park, Washington, D.C. |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 38°56′51″N 77°00′00″W / 38.9476123°N 76.9999024°W |
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Region
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Washington metropolitan area |
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President and CEO
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Nancy Roman |
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Chair
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Peter Schnall |
| Subsidiaries | Capital Area Food Bank Foundation |
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Revenue (2014)
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$53,559,173 |
| Expenses (2014) | $59,912,375 |
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Staff (2013)
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153 |
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Volunteers (2013)
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21,000 |
| Mission | To feed those who suffer from hunger in the DC region by acquiring and distributing directly and through our network of member agencies, and to educate, empower, and enlighten the community about the issues of hunger and nutrition. |
| Website | capitalareafoodbank |
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, each year the Capital Area Food Bank helps give 540,000 people access to good, healthy food.
In fiscal year 2015, the food bank provided nearly 45 million pounds of food—the equivalent of 36 million meals—to the region. In addition to food, the food bank also provides nutrition education and cooking classes, empowering those it serves with the information and skills to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget.
The Capital Area Food Bank operates with the assistance of 21,000 volunteers annually, who donate their time to help sort food, teach classes, and perform other important functions for the food bank. The food bank is a member of Feeding America.
The Capital Area Food Bank was officially incorporated on October 24, 1979, but it considers its founding date to be January 15, 1980 coinciding with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s fifty-first birthday. Prior to that time, the United States government's Food Stamp Program had been the city's primary source of assisting hungry residents. However, cutbacks in the Food Stamp Program planned for the early 1980s led to the food bank's inception by two local organizations, the United Planning Organization and the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. In its first year of operation, the food bank managed to offer food to almost one hundred organizations and deliver 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of food each month. Throughout the rest of the 1980s, the Capital Area Food Bank proceeded to prosper as it partnered with nearby corporations, such as The Washington Post.
In 1991, the Capital Area Food Bank opened a new warehouse in the Brookland neighborhood in northeast Washington, D.C.. The new 48,000-square-foot (4,500 m2) warehouse is more than three times as large as the food bank's original 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) warehouse and continues to serve the Capital Area Food Bank today. In 1998, the food bank opening another warehouse, in Lorton, Virginia, which has since served the needs of residents of Northern Virginia.
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