My Appeal
The Fairbanks Community Food Bank was started in a Recession in Alaska in 1982. The purpose was to salvage local surplus food and give it to people who need it so that no one in the Tanana Valley had to go to bed hungry. We receive free food and give it away free. In order to do that for the past 36 years, we have done the work with over 22,000 volunteer hours each year, and donated services, and donated food (in 2018 nearly 3,000,000 pounds were collected). In order to do the work, a (built for us) 45,000 sq foot warehouse was donated and a very small staff is hired to organize the daily work of collecting 2-5 tons of food and preparing it for use in food boxes 6 days each week. These funds will be used to pay warehouse and vehicle costs.
My Progress
Vicki is
walking
466 miles and raising funds for Fairbanks Community Food Bank Service Inc.. Please show your support and donate generously.
319.7
MILES done
466 miles
My Cause
The Mission:
The primary purpose of the Fairbanks Community Food Bank Service, Inc. is to provide food for hungry people and to distribute surplus food that would ordinarily be discarded. All locally collected food is to be distributed without charge.
About the Organization:
Each day we collect 2-5 TONS of food and distribute it to about 200 local people, plus 1/3rd of the food collected is provided to other local non-profit organizations with on-site meal programs
