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About the Harry Chapin Food Bank

The Harry Chapin Food Bank, an affiliate of Feeding America, is the leading hunger-relief organization in Southwest Florida. The food bank solicits, collects and stores food for distribution to families and others in need through a network of more than 150 nonprofit agencies in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Glades and Hendry counties, providing food to about 28,000 people a week.

For every dollar donated, the food bank can provide $8 in food value. In fiscal year 2018-19, the Harry Chapin Food Bank distributed nearly 26.7 million pounds of food and other grocery items, including 6.4 million pounds of fresh produce. The food, valued at $43.2 million, is the equivalent of 22.2 million meals for people in need.

The Harry Chapin Food Bank is also recognized as a four-star organization by Charity Navigator, the national nonprofit watchdog organization. The food bank is also a United Way partner agency.  For more information or to make a donation, call (239) 334-7007 or visit harrychapinfoodbank.org.

• The Harry Chapin Food Bank serves Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties in Southwest Florida.
• About 151,600 people in this Southwest Florida area experience hunger. That includes 46,470 children.
• 1 in 8 people in Southwest Florida is hungry, including 1 in 5 children.
• We serve about 28,000 people per week.
• Our clients are children, seniors, working-poor families, the unemployed and under-employed, veterans, the disabled and others.
• We distributed 24 million pounds of food in the last fiscal year. That equals about 20 million meals.
• The food is distributed to more than 150 partner agencies and our mobile food pantry program, called Fulfill.
• Every $1 donated can be turned into $8 worth of food value.
• We had about 3,800 volunteers contribute more than 41,000 hours in the last fiscal year, which is more than $1 million in in-kind service.
• We distributed our 200 millionth pound of food in November 2018.
• Our biggest fundraiser of the year, the WINK Feeds Families Hunger Walk, raised $345,549 in January 2019.
• Our biggest food drive of the year, the annual National Letter Carrier’s Food Drive, brought in 337,449 pounds on May 11. The food bank received 226,452 pounds of that total.

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Color Palette

Below we have provided the specific pms color profiles we use in our logo:

• Red 1807c
• Blue 540c