Strategic Focus Areas
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Community Partnerships & Referral Network
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Lead and educate the community through deliberate collaboration with community partners to increase visibility, educate and engage our community inclusive of all Food Bank’s services. |
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Become a resource bridge between community organizations and partner agencies developing strategies to reduce food insecurity in collaboration with the individuals we serve. |
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Develop and execute a community-wide strategy, driven by advocacy and agency partnerships, to increase food security for the region. |
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Data Analytics to Fuel Decisions
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Have a ready-to-use, easily accessible database that will contain internal and external data used to make operational decisions and improve our grant proposals, government relations, agency relations, marketing material, and donor communications. |
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Have a simple, easily accessible platform that allows end-recipients (both partner agencies and program guests) to quickly and qualitatively provide feedback on the foods received, the distribution locations, the distribution methods, and cultural perspectives of the process. This data will inform the Food Bank's operational decisions, enhance agency relations, and improve the end-recipient experience. |
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Establish a data-driven culture that informs all decision-making and maximizes efficiency of resources under our control. |
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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Increase procurement and distribution of culturally appropriate foods by a minimum of 25%, over current cultural food inventory. |
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Center client and community voices to ensure that Food Bank programming and services are appropriately serving current and future needs by providing increased opportunities for community input at all levels of our work. |
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Develop a culture of inclusion and belonging and utilize data to staff all Food Bank programs in a way that recognizes and evaluates employees’ unique contributions, skills and abilities and provides opportunities for professional development. |
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Resources, Food Distribution, Equipment & Facilities
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Ensure a robust and secure food system that meets the needs of the community, as measured by Map the Meal gap and internal benchmarks. |
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Identify, source and provide food products that reduce food insecurity among recipients and help achieve desired health outcomes. |
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Support Partner Agency Network’s ability to sustain, serve, and expand capacity. |
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Technology
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Create seamless alignment between technology systems used by stakeholders of the organization, including its agencies and customers. |
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Build technology knowledge capacity and depth across the organization to support a culture of innovation through technology use. |
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Ensure that technology serves the relevant and efficient collection of data in a secure manner across stakeholder systems to support the data analysis required to achieve strategic goals. |
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Appropriately monitor, modify and staff the organization’s hardware and software systems effectively to reflect industry best practices, regulatory requirements, agency and Feeding America policies and requirements and stakeholder capacity. |
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Unrestricted & Sustainable Funding
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Over the next five years, raise $180 million in food and funds to advance the mission and strategic goals of the organization. |
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