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About the Harry Chapin Food Bank

Harry Chapin Food Bank, a member of Feeding America, is the largest hunger-relief organization in Southwest Florida. The food bank rescues food that would otherwise go to waste and distributes it to families and others in need through a series of programs that feed 28,000 people a week. They include: Care and Share Senior Feeding Program, Harry’s Helpings, Fulfill Mobile Pantries, In-School Pantries and our Partner Agency Program, which is a network of more than 150 partner agencies in our five-county footprint.

For every dollar donated, the food bank can provide $8 in food value. Harry Chapin Food Bank distributed $42.8 million worth of food in fiscal year 2019. Through our programs, we supplied nearly 26.7 million pounds of food and other grocery items, including 6.4 million pounds of fresh produce. The food is the equivalent of 22.2 million meals for people in need.

Our membership with Feeding America enables us to amplify our food and distribution efforts and bring in food from various retail and grocery stores, national food producers and distributors and growers locally, nationally and even internationally.

Harry Chapin Food Bank is proud to be named a Blueprint Partner by the Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF), the founding organization of the Naples Winter Wine Festival. Harry Chapin Food Bank is also a United Way partner agency. For more information or to make gift, call 239.334.7007 or visit harrychapinfoodbank.org.

• 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 roughly 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 26.7 million pounds of food in the last fiscal year. That equals about 22.2 million meals.
• The food is distributed to more than 150 partner agencies and our mobile food pantry program, called Fulfill.
• Every $1 gift can be turned into $8 worth of food value.
• We had about 4,108 volunteers contribute more than 43,000 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, 2019. 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

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Video

Click the link below to access our Google Drive folder with Covid-19 b-roll for media use.

Covid-19 B-Roll