To better serve our neighbors in need as rates of food insecurity remain high, we’ve introduced innovative pilot programs to address the root causes of hunger and identify and assist more food-insecure families across Maryland.
Out of the more than 340,000 total Back Up Boxes we distributed in FY21, we supplied more than 300,000 through local collaborations with the City of Baltimore, as well as Anne Arundel and Calvert Counties.
In FY21, 223 dedicated Network Partners stood up for their communities and helped keep a constant stream of food flowing into the hands of their neighbors in need, including the older residents of Park View at Coldspring in northwest Baltimore City.
In addition to a rash of new donors, long-standing food bank friends like the Baltimore Ravens really stepped up for the extraordinary number of Marylanders who faced food insecurity in FY21 — many for the first time.
Haven Ministries in one of hundreds of Maryland Food Bank community partners that help distribute tens of millions of meals statewide to food-insecure Marylanders like Tina Trice.
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