April 2011 Volume 11, Issue III

Points of Interest: ♦ 2011 Montana Hunger

Relief Forum

♦ Featured Products

♦ Monthly Activity

♦ Reports

♦ Food Security Council Awards

♦ MFBN Staff Changes

Inside this issue:

Food Security Council Awards

2

New PSA from MFBN

2

MFBN Staff Changes

3

Big Sky BBQ 3

May/June Delivery Schedule

4

May/June Delivery Schedule

5

2011 Mobile Food Pantries

5

April’s Recipe: Beef Macaroni Soup

6

MFBN To Host The 4th Annual Montana Hunger Relief Forum—May 20th in Missoula On May 20th, the Montana Food Bank Net-

work will host the 4th annual Montana Hunger Relief Forum at the Wingate Hotel in Mis-soula. We have started receiving RSVP’s from Partner Agencies and are still accepting partici-pants. The conference will run from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm and will include a catered lunch. This is your best opportu-

nity to meet and speak with MFBN staff and representa-tives from Partner Agencies from around the state. Top-ics will include the 2011 Leg-islature, MFBN’s Gap Analy-sis, Fundraising, and more! Please bring your challenges, successes, and fresh ideas and join us in a day of open communication. We will provide a detailed agenda as soon as we are able. As an added bonus, MFBN is pleased to be

able to offer free full-day Servsafe Training on Thursday, May 19th from 9:00-5:30, also at the Wingate Hotel. This is a more complete ver-sion of the online Servsafe training offered by MFBN that will enable participants to train others following their completion of the course. Limited spots are available and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to participate please RSVP by Fri-

day, May 6th. MFBN has reserved a block of rooms at

the Wingate Hotel for participants in the Montana Hunger Relief Forum and Servsafe Training. These rooms are available on the nights of May 18-19 at the corporate pre-

ferred rate of $79 per room (single occupancy) each night. Rooms need to be booked by May 10th or they will be re-leased. Montana Hunger Relief Fo-rum Friday, May 20th, 9:00-4:30

RSVP by May 13th Servsafe Training Thursday, May 19th, 9:00-5:30 RSVP by May 6th Travel scholarships will be available to par-

ticipants to help with either gas or hotel costs and are due back to MFBN by May 6th. Log on to insidemfbn for the application. If you would like to attend the Montana

Hunger Relief Forum or Servsafe Training, please contact Jeff Gutierrez at (800) 809-4752 ext. 232 by the dates listed above. We hope to see you there!

April’s Featured Products—Cereal and French Onion Soup!

Cereal is still flowing strong in the MFBN warehouse and is available in various packages, so stock up on break-fast! We have it available in bulk totes (unpacked), pre-packed boxes, or bins of pre-packed bags ready for distribu-tion. Be sure to check out Item #’s 5539 (bulk), 5628 (bagged), and 5541 (boxes) on your Donated Shopping List. We’re also well stocked with cans of

French onion soup! It’s tasty when combined with a sandwich or on its own and is great to use for cooking! Find French onion soup under Item #5307 on your Donated Shopping List.

Monthly Activity Reports! Monthly Activity Reports are due by the 15th

of each month. These are the number one thing that MFBN requires from Partner Agencies and are vital to our operations, funding, and our ability to provide support to Partner Agencies. Staffing shortages at MFBN have made follow-

up calls for missing or inaccurate MAR’s very diffi-cult. Please mark your calendars and set remind-ers to ensure that you submit your MAR on time. We absolutely need to receive accurate MAR’s from every Partner Agency every month. Agencies that habitually fail to report or submit inaccurate reports risk losing ordering privileges. If you have difficulty completing MAR’s for

your Agency, or if you have any questions about reporting, please contact Jeff at ext. 232/jgutierrez@mfbn.org or Nate at ext. 252/nmerkt@mfbn.org

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Montanans Receive Recognition for Reducing Hunger, Improving Nutrition The Food Security Council of the Mon-tana Food Bank Network - which works to improve long term food security and reduce hunger in Montana, is pleased to announce its recognition of individuals and organizations from Montana who have worked to reduce hunger and im-prove the nutritional status of Montan-ans. Lt. Governor John Bohlinger pre-sented the awards during a ceremony at Noon on April 13, 2011 in the Capitol Rotunda in Helena. Awards were given to the following individuals: ♦ Sofia Janik from the Office of Public Instruction in Helena for her support for the 21st Century Commu-nity Learning Center Afterschool Program.

♦ Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau from Helena for demonstrating a strong commitment to nutrition and for the many steps she has taken to improve our State’s support for ensuring children have consistent and sustainable access to nutritious food.

♦ Kristie Ledbetter and the founding members of the Yaak Food Cupboard in Troy for forming the food pantry in their remote valley and for volunteering for the past 10 years to provide emergency food for 72-84 households in their community. Clients travel 55 miles one way to receive fresh produce and other food items.

♦ Adam Galvin, Principal of Amsterdam Elementary School, a small rural school with very high student pov-erty rate in Manhattan for his work with the commu-nity to start a School Breakfast Program. Mr. Galvin works daily with the program, which now serves 19% of the student population.

♦ Tom Fetherston and Don and Judy Skidmore with the East Helena United Methodist Church for their bravery and tenacity in starting and manning a small food pantry within their church to support the needs of the local community. ♦ Rep. Diane Sands of Missoula for her contin-ual work in the Legislature to advocate for chil-dren and families’ nutrition, health and overall well-being – specifically her work to prevent childhood overweight and obesity and to promote better health through stronger public health policies in our State. ♦ Michael McCormick, Executive Director of the Livingston Food Pantry, for his dedicated ser-vice to the Livingston community through man-agement of the food pantry and for developing a Summer lunch program, a Backpack Program, the Livingston Community Garden and the “Harvest Dinner” event.

♦ Mike Halligan, Executive Director of The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation in Missoula for his work for over nine years to identify areas where children and families are dealing with multi-ple hardships including poverty, education, health, and social needs that impact the future of children in Montana and for his guidance, direction and funding support for the Food Security Council and the Montana Food Bank Network and many of its Partner Agencies statewide.

♦ Rep. Chuck Hunter, Helena, for his dedication to providing a healthy environment for Montana’s children by sponsoring the Healthy Montana Kids Act of 2009 and House Joint Resolution 8 in this current Session – the Interim Study Resolution to end Childhood Hunger. The Resolution has cre-ated a heightened awareness among legislators about the child hunger in the state.

IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE IN YOUR COM-MUNITY THAT HAS GONE ABOVE AND BE-YOND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN FIGHT-ING HUNGER AND/OR IMPROVING NUTRI-TION, PLEASE LET US KNOW! Contact Kate Devino, MFBN Public Policy Director at Ext. 231 or kdevino@mfbn.org

Keep Rob Driving: MFBN Public Service Campaign Rolls Out

MFBN’s truck driver, Mr. Rob Shipley, helped move 8.4 million pounds of food across the State of Montana to Partner Agencies in 2010. He has been our unsung hero for many years and is deeply appreciated by every-one. When the Development/Marketing Department folks started thinking about that, it sounded like some-thing we should get the word out about. So when we were thinking of ideas for a new radio and TV cam-paign, it was a natural, just like Rob. We are thankful for his willing participation and his humble attitude in just wanting to help feed the hungry, in whatever ways he is

able to. TV and radio stations have begun airing the PSAs, they are up on YouTube, have been on face book and can now be seen on the home page at www.mfbn.org. Thanks Rob!

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Big Sky BBQ 2011—A Great Time For a Great Cause! We are firing up for the Big Sky

BBQ 2011, hosted by our neighbors and friends at Big Sky Brewing Company, coming right up on June 11th! Bands include Zeppo Montana, Russ Nassett and the Revelators, Tom Catmull and the Clerics… and House of Quist! Last year we had over 2,000 of our closest friends show up to eat awesome BBQ by local BBQ artists and enjoy Big Sky Brew. Go to www.thebigskybbq.com for more information! All MFBN Partner Agencies are welcome to come and join in the fun- let Kathryn at x244 know that you will be coming to get your name on the list for two free admissions at the gate! On that same day from 9:00-4:00 Karl Tyler

Chevrolet just down the road from MFBN will be hosting the Montana Benefit Car Show! They are expecting to have 500 cool cars from 68 car clubs for folks to check out and all pro-ceeds will benefit MFBN and Guide On!

Welcome Chuck James, New MFBN Warehouse Worker!

Please welcome Chuck James to the MFBN team! Origi-nally from Seattle, Chuck first moved to Montana in 2004.

After bouncing around a bit in other locales he ended up back in The Treasure State last year to be closer to his mother and two sisters, who live here in Mis-soula. Chuck found his way to MFBN through the Experience Works program in August, 2010 before he was hired on as a full-time employee in April, 2011. He brings over 30 years of ware-house experience to the table that helps ensure that all of your orders are picked quickly and

accurately. Chuck explains that, other than family, not a lot of people ever offered him help but that working at MFBN has shown him that it really feels good to do work that helps others. Even though he had never worked for a non-profit before, he tells everybody how much he enjoys it. When he’s not working hard in the MFBN warehouse, Chuck also vol-unteers at the City Food Bank in Missoula. Welcome, Chuck!

Congratulations to Clark Tower, New Director of Finance!!

Please join MFBN in con-gratulating Clark Tower on his promotion to MFBN Director of Finance. Clark, a Missoula native, was hired on as MFBN’s Accountant in December, 2008 and over the past two-plus years has displayed his fantastic fi-nance skills and attention to detail. With the promotion, he looks forward to participating in MFBN activities to a higher de-gree and being able to affect positive change within the organization. Way to go, Clark!

Changes in the MFBN Development Department—Farewell Mark Brennan, Congratulations to Kathryn McCleerey After nine years with MFBN, Mark Brennan

has resigned as Director of Development. Mark was a large part of MFBN’s growth for those many years and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors. Kathryn McCleerey has ably stepped into

Mark’s shoes as MFBN’s new Director of De-velopment. Kathryn has served as MFBN’s De-velopment Manager since February, 2010. In ad-dition to her incredible work thus far with MFBN, she brings to the new position her extensive mar-keting & promotions experience with NBC West-ern Montana and development work with the St. Patrick’s Foundation. Congrats, Kathryn! If you have questions about grant writing or

fundraising for your Partner Agency, or would like to extend your congratula-tions, please feel free to drop Kathryn a line at ext. 244 or kmccleerey@mfbn.org.

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May/June Delivery Schedule Date Time City Partner Agency 10-May 9:00-9:45 Stevensville—Pantry Partners 10-May 10:00-10:15 Victor—Victor School (Victor School Back Pack) 10-May 10:30-11:00 Victor—House of Praise 10-May 11:15-11:30 Hamilton—Bitterroot Valley Calvary Chapel 10-May 11:45-1:15 Hamilton—Haven House, WMMHC West House 10-May 1:30-2:00 Darby—Darby Bread Box 12-May 9:00-9:30 Thompson Falls—Community Harvest Food Bank, Thompson Falls Seniors, Thompson Falls AOG Church, (Thompson Falls School Back Pack) 12-May 10:00-10:30 Trout Creek—Open Gate Ranch Youth Group, Trout Creek Seniors 12-May 10:45-11:30 Noxon—Community Services Fellowship, Noxon Seniors, Heron Seniors 12-May 12:15-1:15 Troy—Troy Food Pantry, The Food Cupboard 12-May 1:30-1:45 Troy—Troy Community Baptist Church Food Pantry 12-May 2:15-3:30 Libby— Libby Food Pantry, Libby Christian Church, Kootenai Valley Head Start, Libby Seniors 17-May 8:30-9:00 Dillon—Beaverhead Community Food Pantry, (Dillon School Back Pack) 17-May 10:30-11:30 Butte—Butte Emergency Food Bank 17-May 11:30-11:45 Butte—Butte Rescue Mission 17-May 12:30-1:00 Anaconda—Project Care, Discovery House 17-May 1:45-2:15 Maxville—Granite County Food Bank 19-May 10:00-10:45 Bozeman—Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Gardiner Food Pantry, Headwaters Area Food Bank, West Yellowstone Food Bank, Yellowstone Social Senior Center, Big Sky Youth Center 19-May 12:45-1:15 Helena—Helena Food Share, Helena Pre-Release, Montana Youth Homes, Elkhorn Treatment Facility, Transitional Living Facility, Rocky Mountain Development Council, Helena Salvation Army, Lewis and Clark Group Home,, (Helena Schools Back Pack) 24-May 10:15-10:30 Livingston—Livingston Food Pantry 24-May 12:00-12:30 White Sulphur Springs—Meagher County Nutrition Coalition 24-May 3:00-3:30 Lewistown—Central Montana Community Cupboard, B/G of Lewistown, FCCOA 24-May 5:00-5:30 Roundup—Musselshell County Food Bank 24-May 5:30-6:00 Roundup—Youth Christian Home 25-May 7:30-7:45 Hardin—Helping Hands 25-May 8:15-8:45 Garryowen—Center Pole Foundation 25-May 10:00-10:45 Billings—Family Services INC., Alternatives/Passages, Montana Rescue Mission, Salvation Army 25-May 11:15-11:45 Laurel—Community Hope 25-May 12:15-12:30 Joliet—Joliet Food Pantry 25-May 1:00-1:30 Columbus—Project Hope 25-May 2:15-2:30 Big Timber—Big Timber Community Food Bank 27-May 8:00-8:15 Alberton—Alberton Seniors 27-May 8:15-8:45 Alberton—Alberton Community Food Pantry, (Alberton School Back Pack) 27-May 9:15-9:45 Superior—Community Food Bank of Mineral County, Superior Seniors 27-May 11:00-11:45 Plains—Plains Community Food Bank, Shekinah Kitchen, Hot Springs Food Pantry, Plains-Paradise Seniors, (Plains School Back Pack) 1-Jun 8:00-8:15 St. Ignatius—St. Ignatius Seniors 1-Jun 8:15-8:45 St. Ignatius—Mission Valley Food Pantry 1-Jun 9:15-9:45 Ronan—Ronan Bread Basket, Mission Valley Seniors 1-Jun 11:45-12:15 Columbia Falls—Columbia Falls Food Bank 1-Jun 12:30-1:00 Whitefish—North Valley Food Bank, Whitefish Four Square Church

November/December Delivery Schedule All delivery times will be published online and in the Affiliate concurrently to scheduled delivery dates. If for any reason your scheduled delivery time changes from what has been

published, MFBN staff will notify you immediately.

Please mark your calendars, Partner Agencies! MFBN’s 2011 Montana Hunger Relief Forum will be held on Friday, May 20 from 9:00-4:30 at the Wingate Missoula (5252 Airway Blvd – right around the corner from MFBN). Plus Servsafe Training on Thursday, May 19 from 9:00-5:30. See the front page article for more information. Please contact Jeff at Ext. 232 or jgutierrez@mfbn.org if you have any questions or to RSVP.

Upcoming Events/Updates

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2011 Montana Hunger Relief Forum

Important

Dates and

Reminders

ORDERS: Due May 6th!

MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORTS: Due May15th!

MONTANA

HUNGER RELIEF

FORUM May 20th!

1-Jun 2:00-3:15 Eureka—Tobacco Valley Seniors, Eureka Four Square Church 3-Jun 8:00-8:15 Polson—Polson Seniors 3-Jun 8:30-9:00 Polson—Polson Loaves and Fish Food Pantry, (Polson School Back Pack) 3-Jun 9:45-10:15 Lakeside—Westshore Food Bank 3-Jun 10:45-11:30 Kalispell—Flathead Food Bank, Light House Christian Home, Samaritan House, (Kalispell Schools Back Pack) 3-Jun 11:45-12:00 Kalispell—N.W. MT. Veterans Stand Down 3-Jun 12:30-1:00 Bigfork—Bigfork Food Pantry 3-Jun 2:30-2:45 Arlee—(Arlee School Back Pack) 3-Jun 11:30-12:00 Seeley Lake—Seeley-Swan Food Bank 7-Jun 8:30-9:30 Great Falls—Great Falls Community Food Bank, Great

Falls Agency’s, Salvation Army, St. Vincent De Paul, FISH 7-Jun 10:45-11:00 Choteau—Teton County Food Pantry, Pondera Food Pantry 7-Jun 12:15-12:45 Browning—Blackfeet Food Bank 14-Jun 2:00-2:30 Ashland – St. Labre Food Pantry 14-Jun 3:00-3:15 Lame Deer – Boys and Girls of the Northern Cheyenne Nation 14-Jun 3:45-4:00 Colstrip – Colstrip Community Food Bank 15-Jun 7:30-7:45 Miles City – Custer County Food Bank 15-Jun 9:45-10:00 Wibaux—Wibaux Food Bank 15-Jun 10:30-10:45 Glendive – Dawson County Food Bank, Boys & Girls Club of Dawson County 15-Jun 11:30-11:45 Sidney—Boys and Girls Club of Richland County 15-Jun 12:30-1:00 Culbertson—Culbertson Food Bank 15-Jun 1:30-1:45 Poplar—New Life Mission 15-Jun 2:15-3:15 Wolf Point—Wolf Point Thrift Store & Food Bank, Wolf Point Seniors 15-Jun 3:15-3:30 Wolf Point—Basket of Hope 15-Jun 4:30-5:00 Glasgow—Valley County Council on Aging 15-Jun 5:00-5:30 Glasgow—Valley Community Food Bank 15-Jun 7:00-7:15 Malta—Malta Food Bank 16-Jun 8:00-8:15 Harlem—Harlem Food Pantry, Harlem Area Senior Citizens Center 16-Jun 8:45-9:15 Chinook—Chinook Food Pantry 16-Jun 9:45-10:30 Havre—Havre Food Bank, Feed My Sheep, Boys and Girls of the Hi-Line ??-Jun TBD Missoula—Missoula agencies begin scheduled pick ups

Delivery Schedule continued... Due to the change of delivery fre-quency we implemented a stop-gap procedure to make sure that no Part-ner Agency runs out of food between deliveries. If you are in critical need of food between our deliveries to you, please log on to insidemfbn.org and click on the “Need Food Now” block on the left. From there, fill out all the required information and a staff person from MFBN will be in touch to begin coordinating the deliv-ery.

Need Food Now?

2011 Mobile Food Pantries! MFBN is hitting the road again with help from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for another round of MFP’s around the state. Here is 2011 schedule so far: April 28 – Chester June 23 – Harlowton

April 29 – Shelby June 24 – Roundup If you know of a community that could use an extra push, or would like more information on the MFP Program, please contact Jeff at ext. 232 or e-mail at jgutierrez@mfbn.org

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The Montana Food Bank Network 5625 Expressway

Missoula, MT 59808

Phone: 406-721-3825 800-809-4752

Fax: 406-542-3770 agencyinfo@mfbn.org

Log on to our website!

www.insidemfbn.org

www.insidemfbn.org For the latest information and updates on new prod-ucts, special offers, delivery schedules, shopping lists, Montana’s Pantry, Pioneer Food Buying Service, grants, media featuring issues in food banking today and cur-rent outreach programs, log on to our website www.insidemfbn.org. You can even submit your monthly activity report and grocery rescue numbers online!

Find more recipes at www.insidemfbn.org/

recipes

Directions: Cook macaroni in boiling water until al dente. In a separate pan, brown hamburger, Combine macaroni and hamburger together in a pot. Add onion soup, stewed tomatoes, veggies, and beef broth to the pot. Warm together and eat! Cooking time—10 minutes.

Ingredients: 1 cup macaroni 1 lb hamburger 1 can French onion soup 1 can stewed tomatoes

April’s Recipe - Beef Macaroni Soup

Executive Director Peggy Grimes x225 Director of Development Kathryn McCleerey x244 Development Coordinator Ben Darrow x226 Director of Finance Clark Tower x223 Director of Public Policy Kate Devino x231 Public Policy Manager Lorianne Burhop x230 Director of Operations Brent Weisgram x233 Transportation Manager Rob Shipley x240 Inventory Control Stacey Strang x251 Coordinator Inventory Control Tosha Gillis x251 Coordinator Agency Relations Manager Jeff Gutierrez x232 Agency Relations & Nate Merkt x252 Volunteer Coordinator Warehouse Cory Simmons x237 Warehouse Chuck James x237

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There are people in the

world so hungry, that

God cannot appear to

them except in the

form of bread.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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MISSION

Working to eliminate hunger in Montana through food acquisi-tion and distribution, education,

and advocacy.

VISION Building a unified force to address hunger in Montana.

Nutrition Facts Recipe makes 5-6 servings Calories 233

Amount Per Serving %DV

Total Fat 8 g 12%

Saturated Fat 4g 20%

Cholesterol 46 mg 15%

Sodium 341 mg 14%

Potassium 736 mg 21%

Total Carbohydrate 19g 6%

Dietary Fiber 5g 20% Sugars 0g Protein 20g 40% Vitamin A 130% Vitamin C 15% Calcium 7% Iron 51% Thiamin 25% Niacin 91% Vitamin B6 37% Magnesium 25% Folate 24% *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calo-

rie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower

Please Remember— we try to choose each month’s recipe based on product we have in stock. Be sure to stock up on tri-color macaroni and French onion soup —I 5299 & 5307 on this month’s Donated Shopping List!

1 can mixed vegetables 1 can beef broth garlic, Italian seasonings optional