We need your help!
$5.25 Million donations to obtain $35 Million+ of packaged food to support 50 thousand families by this July 1st.
We need your help to build a food bank to assist families in NY, NJ, & PA.
We need $5.25 million to build a permanent warehouse.
Packaged food of $35 million+ will be donated per year at no cost.
We expect to feed over 50 thousand families in the first year alone.
Supporting economically depressed locations.
Please consider giving to this great cause!!!
Undeniably, we are living in unprecedented times.
Images like this one from March 30th feeding program in Pittsburgh
shows how the health crises is quickly evolving into an economic crises.
A field of onions waiting to be buried in Nyssa, Idaho on April 10, 2020.
(Joseph Haeberle / The New York Times)
Just one example why we need a food bank.
$5.25 Million
100% of the donations will go to the following:
Warehouse : $4,000,000
Land : $650,000
Equipment : $25,000
Racks : $50,000
Fork Lifts : $55,000
Office Equipment : $110,000
Trucks and Vans : $370,000
Food Procurement & Organization
With the help of your tax deductible donation, Midwest Food Bank will expand through opening a 9th U.S. location (MFB-PA) which will immediately serve NY, NJ, and PA.
MFB distributed nearly $280 million worth of food in 2019 to over 2,000 non-profits each month.
Given the severity and expected duration of this crises and planning for delivery and distribution, MFB will begin to transport up to $35 million dollars of food annually procured by their network of large scale food producers across the U.S. With this sizable effort, packaged food arriving to the new MFB-PA will need to be stored in a warehouse, repackaged and then subsequently shipped to food distribution centers located in PA, NJ, and NY. In summary, with a fundraise of $5.25 million a new feeding program will be established that ultimately brings the food to residents in need in these states.
Why Open a Warehouse in
Hershey, PA?
Strategic trucking route location ( From Midwest Food Bank central warehouse in IL to NY greater area )
Proximity to farmlands and large distribution companies for food procurement
Lower cost of construction / operating costs
