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Click: How Do I Become A Member Agency? Member Agency Corner
As the name implies, this page is strictly for our Member Agency Network. Here you will find information that's meant just for you! Including an updated Food List. So check this page regularly! (To view the Food List, click here).
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Product Recall: On occasion the United
States Department of Agriculture, Food & Drug Administration and
Center for Disease Control will release information on food products
that are being recalled for various reasons. This information,
can be accessed via the websites below. Most often these products
will NOT have been obtained by you via the Food Bank. However,
it is possible through your own food sourcing and food drive
activities, independent of what you have received from the Food
Bank, these items may be on your shelves.
When these recalls involve products in our own Food Bank inventory, a more rigorous internal protocol is enacted including an agency-by-agency recall of those who have received the product from us and various and immediate forms of direct contact (fax, email, telephone & website alerts), to those agencies.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) maintains up-to-date product recall information on a variety of products. You can access this information via their website here.
Please consult these additional resources for
up-to-the-minute information on product recall:
▪ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: click
here.
▪ Food & Drug Administration: click
here.
Ever Wonder What the Shared Maintenance Fee is all about? Click here for an explanation! |
USDA "Team Nutrition" Information: A Great Resource!
Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food & Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for food service, nutrition education for children and their caregivers and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.
Team Nutrition's goal is to improve children's lifelong eating and physical activity habits by using the principles of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and My Pyramid. To accomplish this goal, Team Nutrition has developed the following websites:
Team Nutrition Web site click here
Healthy Meals Resource System
site click
here
"Help Us Help You!"
A gentle reminder to our
member agencies -- please do not bring more than 1-2 people with you to
pick up your food orders at the Food Bank. In recent months we have had
member agencies bringing as many as 7 individuals with them. Our warehouse
staff cannot efficiently serve you and ensure that your order is complete
when there is a group of people coming with you. Thanks!!!
How Do I
Become A Member Agency?
In case you came to this page wondering, "How can my agency become a member of the Food Bank?" We're glad you asked! Basically we are a non-profit that is in service to other non-profits that run feeding programs. Can you answer "yes" to the following questions:
1. Are you a non-profit
organization with a feeding program located in Barry, Branch, Calhoun,
Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lenawee or St. Joseph County?
2. Do you serve individuals or households in need? At least 50% of the
people you are serving must be low-income.
According to U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines. Here's a table of the 2008
Poverty Guidelines for you to use as a handy reference:
2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines
| Persons in Family or Household |
48 Contiguous States and D.C. |
Alaska | Hawaii |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $10,400 | $13,000 | $11,960 |
| 2 | 14,000 | 17,500 | 16,100 |
| 3 | 17,600 | 22,000 | 20,240 |
| 4 | 21,200 | 26,500 | 24,380 |
| 5 | 24,800 | 31,000 | 28,520 |
| 6 | 28,400 | 35,500 | 32,660 |
| 7 | 32,000 | 40,000 | 36,800 |
| 8 | 35,600 | 44,500 | 40,940 |
| For each
additional person, add |
3,600 | 4,500 | 4,140 |
SOURCE: Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 15, January 23, 2008, pp. 3971-3982.
3.
Do
you have 501(c)(3) IRS status (if you are NOT a church)? For agencies other
than churches, please note, the 501-c-3 determination comes from the IRS,
and is different than tax-exempt status from the Michigan Treasury Dept.
4. Does
your agency have adequate space to safely and securely store food?
Bottom shelf must be at least 6 inches off the floor. Non-foods need to be
stored separately from food items. Do you have adequate freezer/cooler space
if
you are planning on ordering these items?
If you
answered "YES" to the above 4 questions, then...
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Tailgate Service!
Once a month we pull and deliver orders to agencies in Kalamazoo,
Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee &
St. Joseph Counties. It's called our
tailgate service and it's designed to save agencies time and money. Here's
the current tailgate schedule:
| County | Day of Month/Time | Where |
| Hillsdale | 1st Thursday/11 a.m. | Interdyne |
| Lenawee | 2nd Thursday/12 Noon | Raisin Township Fire Hall |
| Jackson | 3rd Thursday/1 p.m. | Sercombe Trucking |
| Kalamazoo | 1st Tuesday/1 p.m. | Loaves & Fishes |
| St. Joseph | 4th Thursday/11a.m. | G & H Industries |
What is The Purpose of the Food Bank's
Monitoring Visit?
Every member agency of
the Food Bank is monitored. The visit provides an opportunity for the member
agency to give us feedback, regarding the Food Bank's service to a
particular agency, and any information the agency feels would be beneficial.
During the monitoring visit attention is also paid to food safety and safe
storage of food products. The monitoring visit is required by America's
Second Harvest and is also a requirement to be a Food Bank member agency.
For a member agency list, click here. (updated December, 2007)
Find out more about the Food Bank by clicking here.
To get back to the Home Page, click here.
