The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) works to establish and strengthen food banks around the world through several initiatives: - Providing support for new food bank startups and ongoing projects in over 20 countries - Certifying food banks to ensure compliance with operating standards and promote legitimacy - Raising awareness of food waste, hunger issues, and how food banks address these problems - Mobilizing resources like food, funding, and volunteers from companies to support food banks - Providing leadership training to food bank professionals from over 30 countries to share best practices.

2. WHAT WE DO
Help establish new food banks
• Previous success in South Africa, Bulgaria, Chile, Russia, Panama and Peru
• Ongoing projects in Botswana, Namibia and China
Provide credibility to new and growing food banks
• Certify food banks to ensure compliance against a broad range of criteria
• Joint meetings and communications to emphasize the legitimacy of food
banking as a concept and the individual food banks themselves
Raise public awareness on the issues of food waste, hunger
and how food banks help
• Website and social media
• Speaking engagements
• Mentions in CSR reports of partner companies

3. WHAT WE DO
Resource Mobilization
• Work with multi-national companies identifying where / how they can work with
food banks
- Food: Work to ensure surplus food goes to food banks not landfill
- Funds: Secure grants that make possible GFN funding to member food banks (e.g. Caterpillar
Foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, General Mills Foundation)
- Friends: Encourage and Facilitate employee engagement:
• Group Volunteers: Corporate team building days
• Specialist skill volunteers: Use technical expertise to help food banks (e.g. IBM)
• In office food drives: (e.g. Deutsche Bank, Ingredion)
Leadership Education
• Food Bank Leadership Institute (4 day training event in the US)
- 75 food bankers from 35 countries in attendance in 2015
- Corporate and NGO speakers (Kellogg’s, Carrefour, World Food Programme, FAO etc.)
• Toolkits and resources
• GFN Learning Center (in development)

4. THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF FOOD BANKS

5. GROWTH TRAJECTORY

6. STANDARDS MANAGEMENT
GFN certified members commit to a common set of operating and
administrative standards
• Governance and management transparency
• Fiscal transparency and accountability to donor requirements
• Food safety and inventory control
• Leadership in hunger related education, service delivery and impact assessment
• Commitment to support and actively participate in GFN’s network
Standards compliance tested prior to GFN Certification
Re-certification conducted on biennial basis

7. APPROACH TO NEW
FOOD BANK DEVELOPMENT
• Assess community and country-wide food assistance needs and available resources
• Recruit business, faith, community, and government leaders to engage with or design the
food banking system
• Develop partnerships with food and grocery product companies and other industries to
enhance food banking service delivery
• Provide planning and technical support
• Share logistical, operational and technology support
• Promote best practices, expertise, and training resources
• Assure food bank compliance with food safety standards

8. RESPONSE OF EMERGING FOOD BANK
LEADERS TO GFN’S APPROACH
“The GFN is a very important ally for the Food Bank in the Dominican Republic.
Whenever we have a doubt or a question about what is better to do in certain
situation or how to deal with food donors, beneficiaries, public sector or whatever
they answer us through the experience of someone or some food bank in the
world that had a similar issues. But the GFN is not only there for us to answer
questions, they also visit us, opening doors with some people that are more open
to listen to us with a representative of a global network.
Each year, the GFN organizes the Food Banking Leadership Institute. The Food
Bank of Dominican Republic has participated twice. It is an excellent opportunity
for us to learn from other food banks’ experience and to share best practices. We
can see there what is working in other countries and discuss how it could be
applied to the DR. Another interesting and very helpful point is that many
representatives of companies participate in the FBLI and tell us how they would
be convinced to collaborate with our food bank.
A new initiative of the GNS is to organize a sub-network for the region of Central
America and the Caribbean will help us to work closer in the region and find new
food donors among regional companies and share contacts we have in regional
offices of multinational food companies.
Concrete examples of what has changed in our
Food Bank directly thanks to the GFN:
• After an FBLI session on branding we reevaluated and
decided to change our brand and name to be more in
accord with our vision
• After an on-site consultation with the GFN we worked to
create clear processes for our operations
• A real and functional board has now been formed
• We ready to construct a new warehouse to be able to
distribute more food and are working on a donation of
land
• We are investigating new software we learned about
from the GFN that will help us be more efficient in
distributing food
• A recent on-site visit by the GFN gave us good media
visibility and motivated new people to collaborate with usJulien Bulliard, Executive Director,
Banco de Alimentos Republica Dominicana

9. CORPORATE PARTNERS IN THE MISSION
Caterpillar Foundation

10. THE GFN / FEEDING
AMERICA CONNECTION
GFN has strong links with Feeding America and has collaborated on
multiple projects
• In 2006, GFN was co-founded by the then CEO of Feeding America and his peers at the
Argentine, Canadian, and Mexican food bank networks. GFN was established in response to
increasing requests from other countries for assistance with establishing/expanding
food banks
• Many past and present GFN staff have extensive experience working at Feeding America
• Since inception, a senior executive from Feeding America has served on the GFN Board
• Several US Food Bank CEOs have served on the GFN Board
• Since inception, several US food banks / food bankers have supported GFN financially
• Numerous US food banks have hosted foreign delegations to teach them about
food banking

11. PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Sponsor a Food Bank Leader
• Help spread Food Banking Globally
• Attach your bank to a sister food bank
• Energize employees & volunteers
“We have grown a global network of
food bank operators and need the help
of our more developed partners to turn
those operators into leaders who will
help grow food banking in their area
and beyond.”
Chris Rebstock, GFN Interim CEO
“Partnering with an international food
bank will rally our staff, volunteers,
and donors who have such strong
connections overseas.”
Al Breslain, Harry Chapin Food
Bank, President & CEO

12. AL BRISLAIN
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK
PRESIDENT & CEO
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY BOARD
BRIAN GREENE
HOUSTON FOOD BANK
PRESIDENT & CEO
CHRIS REBSTOCK
GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK
INTERIM CEO

13. OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTNERSHIP
Bronze: $1,500
Adopt a Food Banker: Support from Bronze members helps a
fellow food banker attend GFN’s annual Food Bank Leadership
Institute, the only global forum for educating, sharing best
practices, and building a global community of food bank leaders.
Each year, GFN provides assistance to food bank leaders from
emerging and developing food banks who otherwise would not be
able to attend this event, which for many is the single most
important educational opportunity in their new careers.
Gold: $5,000 (10 maximum)
Sponsor a Food Bank Fellow: Gold Members will fund an
International Food Bank Fellowship, an intensive, year-long
program designed to accelerate a food bank leader’s understanding
of the food bank model. The program includes:
• Attendance at FBLI
• Coursework via our Learning Center
• A week long mentoring opportunity at a mature food bank
Silver: $3,000
Adopt a Food Banker
On the Ground Support: In addition to adopting a food banker, support from
Silver members will also help fund a trip by GFN’s Network Development staff
to provide on-the-ground technical assistance to developing and emerging food
banks. Our Network Development staff, with over sixty years of food banking
experience, provides a critical source of operational support and expertise as
food banks grow, encounter new challenges, and develop new programs.
Platinum: $10,000 (5 maximum)
Build Capacity: In addition to sponsoring a Food Bank Fellow, Platinum
members will provide $10,000 to a new Capacity Grant Fund. Targeted grants
to growing food banks will provide critical resources that will help them
accelerate their ability to feed those in need in their communities. A portion of
this commitment will be used for on-site consultation and leadership education
activities (20%). In general, grants will be made to fund:
• Cold storage
• Trucks
• Facility improvements
• Accounting and inventory software
Grants will be released in a batch once the Fund balance achieves the
minimum threshold for due diligence, approximately $40,000

14. BENEFITS OF PARTNERSHIP
BENEFITS LEVELS
Bronze Silver Gold Platinum
Annual program update from around the GFN network X X X X
Complimentary access to GFN’s new e-learning center X X X X
Invitation to “Future of Food Banking” Symposium at the
Food Bank Leadership Institute, March 15, 2016
X X X X
Recognition in GFN's Annual Report and other
marketing materials
X X X X
Shop talk from the field via Skype – 30 minute
video/conference call
X X X
GFN Global Committee membership invitation X X
Annual conference call with GFN President X X
Opportunity to visit a GFN certified International Food
Bank – in coordination with Network Development
work flow
X