In 2016-2017 volunteers donated 265,304 hours to shfbm. Volunteerism: volunteers from all segments of our community (individuals, corporations, faith-based groups, schools, community service workers and others) make a huge contribution to shfbm. These agencies include emergency pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, low income daycares, kids cafes, backpack and senior programs. Our partner agencies: in the past year, shfbm supported over 700 partner agencies feeding the hungry in our 19 county service region of north and south carolina. This past year over 5,965,713 pounds were collected in local food drives. Food drives: each year, hundreds of local businesses, churches, neighborhoods, and service groups hold food drives for shfbm. These gifts enabled the food bank to secure highly nutritious products that are rarely donated. Purchased: in addition to the state purchases outlined above, in 2016-2017 shfbm received 2,555,159 in grants and donations restricted for food purchase. A total of 5,339,940 pounds were processed duringthe fiscal year. This project is one of our most popular volunteer activities. Salvage: at the main warehouse of shfbm in charlotte, nonperishable foods and non-food items donated from food drives and salvage centers are inspected, sorted, and packaged for distribution to our partner agencies. With our share of the state funds ($493,447) we purchased highly nutritious food from nc businesses for distribution to emegency pantries in the 14 counties we serve in nc. These commodities are distributed to agencies bases on the poverty levels in each county. Government commodities come from the department of agriculture in nc and from the department of social services in sc. Government commodities and state nutrition assistance program: while the majority of our food bank's product are donated by wholesalers, retailers, and the general public, 7,516,367 pounds came from government commodities and the state nutrition program. We distributed 54,068,572 pounds of this product to over 700 partneragencies throughout our 19 county service regions of north and south carolina and to other food banks in the carolinas in 2016-2017. Programs: Grocery product collection and distribution:overall product distribution: second harvest food bank of metrolina (shfm) received 55,930,238 pounds of grocery and household product from almost 500 local donors, national sources coordinated by feeding america, usda commodities, and purchases in 2016-2017.
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