The document provides details on a food bank's strategic plan, including an analysis of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It discusses the organization committing to a goal of reducing the meal gap in its service area by 45% by 2015. Staff and partners identified priorities like expanding programs and physical space to meet this goal. The food bank will need to balance strategies like increasing food assistance and decreasing demand to successfully achieve its mission of alleviating hunger.

1. FY14-16 STRATEGIC
PLAN
State of the Food Bank

2. More than 50 million Americans are
now food insecure
Growth in U.S. Food Insecurity Rate
1995 - 2011
14.9%
20.2%
25.1%
26.2%
All U.S.
Households
Households
with Kids
Black
Households
Hispanic
Households
Percent of Households
that are Food Insecure
2

3. 452 403 364
631
784
934
620
858
819 788
816
830
730
807
297
308
310
417
554
669
824
232 278 332
382
464
499
507
290 313 360
394
456
461 535
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 F-cast
Lbs(MM)
Channel lbs by fiscal year
Channel
Produce
Purchasing
Retail
Manu
Fed
10
17
18
-3
16
Traditional sources of food at risk and
eroding
2,129 2,121 2,154
2,640
3,088
3,293 3,293
FY12
Growth
%
16
2
23
11
-34%
FY06 –
FY11
CAGR%
We expect manufacturing to revert to long-term trend due to industry focus on zero
waste. Federal Commodities not expected to increase going forward due strong
agricultural commodity markets. 3

4. One Goal for the Network
4
At the 2012 Network Summit, members were asked to
commit symbolically commit to “One Goal”
8.4
billion
meal
gap
annuall
y
Reduce the
meal gap by
providing
3.63B meals
annually by
FY15,
an increase of
+1B meals vs.
FY10

5. What is our commitment?
Reduce
the
meal
gap
5
Increase
Food
Assistance
How will we reduce the gap?
Decrease
the Need
for Food
Assistance

6. Our portion of “the gap”
FOOD BANK SPECIFIC VARIABLES
The "Meal Gap"1 15,030,361
1/8 of the "Meal Gap" 1,878,795
ONE GOAL MEAL TARGET 6,037,123
OVERALL PERCENT INCREASE 45.18%
5-YR COMPOUND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE (2010 TO 2015) 7.74%
8-YR COMPOUND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE (2010 TO 2018) 4.77%
SNAP CALCULATOR VARIABLES
New Apps Approval Rate 66.27%
Recert Apps Approval Rate 75.45%
Average Benefit $308.00
Certification Period (months) 9
State Meal Factor $2.41

7. Projected growth to meet “one
goal”

8. FY14-16 STRATEGIC
PLAN
Survey Results

9. SWOT Analysis
 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Opportunities
 Threats

10. SWOT: Strengths

11. SWOT: Strengths
2
3
3
4
4
5
6
9
21
Partnerships
Board
Cause/Mission
Efficiency
Fiscal & Organizational Stability
Programs & Operations
Creativity, Innovation, Adaptability
Brand & Community Support
Staff
Food Finders' Strengths

12. SWOT: Strengths
 Sample comments:
 “Passionate and driven staff”
 “PEOPLE!!! - Knowledgeable, caring and
supportive”
 “Entrenched community awareness and support”
 “Innovative atmosphere”
 “financial stability”
 “Efficiency - we do a whole lot with a little”
 “Offering opportunities for the public to get
involved”
 “Expanding programs and outreach as often as

13. SWOT: Weaknesses

14. SWOT: Weaknesses
2
2
3
3
4
4
4
4
5
5
13
Agencies
Government Barriers
Abilities of Staff
PR/Awareness
Internal Processes/Structure
Strategic Thinking
Lack of Resources
Reaching Outlying Counties
Size of Staff
Community Partnerships
Physical Space/Location
Food Finders' Weaknesses

15. SWOT: Strengths
 Sample comments:
 “Location, location, location!”
 “Lack of warehouse space”
 “Small staff”
 “No ‘heavy hitters’ [involved in work]”
 “Flightiness - at times we seem to be jumping
from one project to another without full resolution”
 “Communication between departments”
 “low participation and input from outlying
counties”
 “Relationships with Food Pantries & Soup
Kitchens (last place after Back Pack, Summer

16. Our vision & mission
 Current vision: Eliminate hunger.
 Current mission: Food Finders procures,
stores, and distributes food, together with
complementary resources, to serve the needs
of hungry people.

17. What should be our primary
focus?
55%
20%
25%
Food Finders should be...
...making sure there is always enough food assistance
for people who need it.
...reducing the number of people who need food
assistance.
...helping grassroots hunger relief organizations
provide food assistance in their communities.
80%
5%
15%
Food Finders is…
...making sure there is always enough food assistance
for people who need it.
…reducing the number of people who need food
assistance.
...working to help grassroots hunger relief organizations
provide food assistance in their communities.

18. What should be our primary
focus?
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
...make sure there is
always enough food
assistance for people
who need it.
...reduce the number
of people who need
food assistance.
...help grassroots
hunger relief
organizations provide
food assistance in
their communities.
Food Finders should be working to...
Board
Staff

19. What best describes our
mission?
Answer Choice No.
Responses
Hunger relief 18
Emergency food 10
Awareness 9
Low-cost food 8
Advocacy 6
Partnerships 4
Nutrition 3
Community Health 1
Grassroots 1

20. How will we know success?
 Responses generally fit into one of several
themes:
 We can't end hunger. (4 responses)
 Agencies stop asking us for food. (8 responses)
 Clients stop asking us/agencies for food. (7
responses)
 Supply & capacity meet demand. (4 responses)
 Clients/local residents no longer show signs of food
insecurity. (4 responses)
 Community is aware of proper nutrition. (1 response)
 Government adequately meets need. (1 response)

21. FY14-16 STRATEGIC
PLAN
Session 2

22. Katy gave a “State of the Food
Bank”
 Food insecurity still at an all-time high
 Perishable food sources increasing
 Salvage sources decreasing
 Push from FA to adopt network-wide “One
Goal” FOOD BANK SPECIFIC VARIABLES
The "Meal Gap"1 15,030,361
1/8 of the "Meal Gap" 1,878,795
ONE GOAL MEAL TARGET 6,037,123
OVERALL PERCENT INCREASE 45.18%
5-YR COMPOUND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE (2010 TO 2015) 7.74%
8-YR COMPOUND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE (2010 TO 2018) 4.77%

23. We did a SWOT Analysis
 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Opportunities
 Threats

24. SWOT: Strengths

25. Strengths (Survey) Weaknesses (Survey)
 Staff
 Brand/Community Support
 Creativity, innovation, adaptability
 Programs & operations
 Fiscal/organizational stability
 Efficiency
 Cause/mission
 Board
 Partnerships
 Physical space/location
 Community partnerships
 Size of staff; abilities of staff
 Reaching outlying counties
 Lack of resources
 Strategic thinking
 Internal processes/structure
 PR/awareness
 Government barriers
 Agencies
Opportunities Threats
 Raising money
 Become more visible/raise awareness
 Improve food given out (produce, etc)
 Start a pantry that’s open on nights & weekends
 More direct service
 Educate clients
 Relationships in the community – reevaluate
what we have and what we need
 Assess pantries, improve the process for them
 Build new friends & advocates through the Cap
Campaign, BJB, and other outreach
 Analyze community events & food drives for
impact
 TEFAP $ goes away
 Staff burnout
 Lack of campaign funding
 Slow economic recovery
 Large “at risk” issue (accidents and liability)
 Weather-related increases in food costs
 Government regulations
 Healthcare costs – to Food Finders and Corporate
 Depth of staff (in terms of age and experience)
 Aging volunteers
 Aging fleet
 Need for new resources
 Donor fatigue
 Client reliance & dependency (on our services)
 Inability to use some salvage food
 Competition for products from secondary market
 Competition from other agencies (Midwest, HDC, etc)

26. We discussed this model
Reduce
the
meal
gap
26
Increase
Food
Assistance
Decrease
the Need
for Food
Assistance

27. Implications of “one goal” model
 Education is going to be critical – both of clients and
community
 Will donors give to help “reduce demand”? Or is
“increasing assistance” a more compelling reason to
give?
 This concept might actually be more easily embraced
by a wide array of people
 Challenges the “old” food bank paradigm – that we
were created by agencies to serve agencies
 Metrics will be more difficult if we focus on education
& awareness
 We will have to constantly make decisions about how
to balance resources between these two focus areas

28. Feeding America: One Goal
Pledge
 Copies included in packet

29. We identified goals

30. `
Assess our capacity needs and build infrastructure to support
our strategic goals.
30
Educate & empower
people to utilize all
available food
resources.
Increase people’s
access to nutritious
food.
Mobilize the public in
the fight to end
hunger.
Reduce the Meal Gap
Goals

31. Survey results: strategies

32. Our Programs: Impact vs. Cost

33. Our Programs: Impact vs. Support

34. What else should we be doing?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Repackaging more bulk food
Visibility/strengthening brand
Consolidate/coordinate Tippecanoe Co Agencies
Senior food program
Expanding/adding new direct service programs
No answer/nothing
SNAP Outreach
Nutrition & meal planning education

35. Top Operational Priorities
42%
42%
53%
95%
Adding more staff
Expanding agency partner capacity
Expanding direct service program
capacity
Expanding physical space
Identifying process improvements 21%
More vehicles 16%
More/better equipment 11%
Upgrading technology 11%
Outsourcing some functions 0%

36. Tools

37. Estimated Costs/Meal by
Program
ESTIMATED COSTS PER MEAL Unit Type Cost Per Unit
Avg Meals Per
Unit Cost/Meal Revenue Per Unit Adj Cost/Meal
SNAP Outreach - year 1 1 Assistance session $ 60.00 89 $ 0.67 $ 30.00 $ 0.34
SNAP Outreach - year 2+ 1 Assistance session $ 15.00 89 $ 0.17 $ 7.50 $ 0.08
BackPack Program 1 BackPack $ 4.97 5 $ 0.99 $ 4.20 $ 0.15
Mobile Pantry Program 1 Distribution $ 1,140.00 5,269 $ 0.22 $ 500.00 $ 0.12
Whistlestop Program 1 Distribution $ 300.00 2,226 $ 0.13 $ - $ 0.13
Agencies 1 Agency, annually $ 8,513.29 22,224 $ 0.38 $ 3,405.32 $ 0.23
SFSP 1 Meal $ 6.04 1 $ 6.04 $ 5.41 $ 0.63

38. Projected growth to meet “one
goal”

39. FIVE-YEAR SCENARIO
Total Pounds5 SNAP Applications5 5-YEAR CAGR
Meals convertedfrom Pounds(5-Year
CAGR)
Meals Convertedfrom SNAP
Apps (5-Year CAGR) TOTAL MEALS (5-Year CAGR) ONE GOAL MEAL TARGET
FY2010 Actuals 4,989,994 - 4,158,328 - 4,158,328 6,037,123
FY2011 Actuals 5,527,495 - 7.74% 4,606,246 - 4,606,246 6,037,123
FY2012 6,052,602 - 7.74% 5,043,835 - 5,043,835 6,037,123
FY2013 6,521,153 - 7.74% 5,434,294 - 5,434,294 6,037,123
FY2014 7,025,976 - 7.74% 5,854,980 - 5,854,980 6,037,123
FY2015 7,569,879 - 7.74% 6,308,232 - 6,308,232 6,037,123
FY2016
FY2017
FY2018
EIGHT-YEAR SCENARIO
Total Pounds5 SNAP Applications5 8-YEAR CAGR
Meals convertedfrom Pounds(8-Year
CAGR)
Meals Convertedfrom SNAP
Apps (8-Year CAGR) TOTAL MEALS (8-Year CAGR) ONE GOAL MEAL TARGET
FY2010 Actuals 4,989,994 - 4,158,328 - 4,158,328 6,037,123
FY2011 Actuals 5,527,495 - 4.77% 4,606,246 - 4,606,246 6,037,123
FY2012 6,052,602 - 4.77% 5,043,835 - 5,043,835 6,037,123
FY2013 6,341,340 - 4.77% 5,284,450 - 5,284,450 6,037,123
FY2014 6,643,852 - 4.77% 5,536,544 - 5,536,544 6,037,123
FY2015 6,960,796 - 4.77% 5,800,663 - 5,800,663 6,037,123
FY2016 7,292,858 - 4.77% 6,077,382 - 6,077,382 6,037,123
FY2017 7,640,762 - 4.77% 6,367,302 - 6,367,302 6,037,123
FY2018 8,005,263 - 4.77% 6,671,053 - 6,671,053 6,037,123

40. Environmental Peer Group (EPG) Peach Operation Statistics by Food Bank
Number of Food Banks in EPG 34 Combined EPG Ranked in the Network
Detailed Metrics for All Food Banks in EPG
Environmental Peer Group Variables Size of Service Area (Sq Miles) 6,586 Small
2010 Food Insecure Individuals 87,320 Low
Food and Funds Resources in Dollars 12,443,614$ Low
Cost to Operate Index 94.25 Low
PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK - FY2012 (1)
Food Access Actual
Change Over
Last Year Food Bank Percentile within EPG (based on Actuals)
Percentile
within EPG
Service Area PPIP 71.79 9.2% 44%
Percent Foods to Encourage (5)
54.1% -6.9% 29%
Average County PPIP 77.20 3.5% 15 44%
SNAP Meals N/A 0.0% N/A N/A
Local Pounds 1,311,858.00 17.3% 59%
Food Safety Index (4)
1.00 N/A 33%
COMPOSITE INDEX 42%
Resource Development Actual
Change Over
Last Year
Penetration into Individual Giving 18.7% 2.8% 29%
Private Support Revenue 821,671.00$ 20.2% 41%
Private Support Percent of Operating Expenses 39.4% -4.5% 29%
Average Direct Mail Renewal Gift in Dollars (3)
47.40$ N/A 26%
Individual Support Percent of Total Fundraising 44.2% -0.2% 38%
COMPOSITE INDEX 33%
Organizational Efficiency Actual
Change Over
Last Year
Meals Per Dollar (2)
4.60 -1.6% 38%
Cost Per Dollar Raised 0.18$ -15.0% 62%
Program Expenses Percent of Operating Expenses 74.4% 18.7% 24%
Inventory Turns 8.28 25.0% 32%
COMPOSITE INDEX 39%
Community Mobilization Actual
Change Over
Last Year
Volunteer Hours 22,775.00 52.0% 82%
Number of Individual Donors per 1,000 Population 13.28 123.0% 26%
Food Drive Pounds 203,512.00 22.0% 76%
Advocacy Index (3)
1.14 N/A 35%
COMPOSITE INDEX 55%
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