$
1 = Enough
resources for Tarrant Area Food Bank to provide 6 pounds
of food for
5 meals
|
|
$
12 = 54
meals to a family headed by a low-wage worker whose earnings
have been exhausted by day-care
and medical expenses |
| $
24 = 12
weekend
backpacks of food for impoverished school children in
Tarrant Area Food Bank's Backpacks
for Kids program |
|
$
56 = 252 meals to home-bound
seniors subsisting on fixed incomes |
|
$
112 = 504 breakfast meals for
homeless people at shelters and soup
kitchens |
| $
250 = 20 hours of nutrition
education from the Food Bank's Choices!
program for children and adults |
|
$
440 = One agency phone line for one
year |
|
$
546 = Three months of meals for nine children
living in special care facilities. |
$
780 = One digital scale for Quality
Control where volunteers pack boxes with
foods to be picked up by TAFB's partner agencies
|
$
1,000 = Weekend backpacks of food for
an entire school year for 14 children
in the Backpacks
for Kids program
|
|
$
1,250 = One month's fuel for Tarrant Area
Food Bank's trucks |
|
$
1,500 = Transportation
for 40,000 pounds of fresh produce from the Rio Grande
Valley (includes cost of
value added packaging, or VAP fees) |
|
$
2,900 = One month's warehouse supplies |
|
$
5,000 = Weekend backpacks of food all school
year for 70 children in the
Backpacks for Kids program |
$
8,000 = One month's utilities for TAFB's office
space and 67,000 square-foot
warehouse with four
house-sized refrigerators and freezers
|
|
$ 15,000
= One Kids Cafe for one year serving 50 children with a
meal five days a
week (Capital One and ConAgra
are current Kids Cafe sponsors.) |
|
$ 30,000
= One new forklift |
| $ 96,000
= One
year's utilities |
|
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