More good news for A2H

Here is an email from America's Second Harvest and Rick Bella to the group's partners in the produce world. Congratulations for a great work and record volume.
From Rick:


It is with great pleasure that I announce to you that the Fresh Produce Program has again broken another record. Our fiscal year ended on June 30th, and as the dust settles from our work last year, I will report a program total of 115,900,000 pounds. That’s one hundred fifteen MILLION pounds from national donors to our network of over 200 member food banks. Food banks also received local donations from many sources besides the national offerings listed above.

State association programs grew over 300% last year with more and more members experiencing the value of collaboration. We certainly couldn’t have enjoyed this growth without the great support from many of our donor and supplier partners. This year, 27 members each received over one-million pounds of fresh produce with some members recording 10-million and 6-million pounds.

The program produced $7.9M in f.o.b. purchases to support network needs. Another $2.6M was provided to the transportation industry to transport fresh produce to member locations across the U.S.

We would like to thank each of you for the fine work in the past 12-months and look forward to continued growth in our new fiscal year. A complete listing of our donor partners will be available in our annual report. Thank you all for a productive year. As always, please let us know how we can improve our program. We value your advice.

Sincerely,
Rick

Rick Bella, Director of Purchasing & VAP
America's Second Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network
35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60601