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Ozarks Food Harvest
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Ozarks Food Harvest partners with another local nonprofit to provide fresh produce for those in need
Ozarks Food Harvest partners with 270 organizations to help them feed people in their own communities. The food bank, which serves 28 counties in southwest Missouri, also works to ensure fresh produce is available to those who need help with groceries for themselves and their families. Ozarks Food Harvest works with Springfield Community Gardens to make this possible.
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Sense of Community
Ozarks Food Harvest
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Ozarks Food Harvest partners with 270 organizations to help them feed people in their own communities. The food bank, which serves 28 counties in southwest Missouri, also works to ensure fresh produce is available to those who need help with groceries for themselves and their families. Ozarks Food Harvest works with Springfield Community Gardens to make this possible.
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[GENTLE MUSIC] JORDAN BROWNING: So we are the Feeding America food bank for Southwest Missouri.
So what that means is we serve a 28-county service area made up of about 270 different charities.
And our mission is to transform hunger into hope, and we do that by being a distribution center for all those agencies.
So that way, all they have to worry about is, how are we going to get food and get that out to families in need, and we take care of the rest.
We would not be able to do the work we do without partners like that, because they are the boots on the ground of distributing this out to families in need.
And so it takes an entire community of not only the agencies we work with, but our incredibly generous local grocer donors that are supplying us that food, as well as our volunteers.
I mean, as part of our distribution, we're sorting about 100,000 pounds of food per week just to make sure it gets out the door in a timely fashion.
And without volunteers to help us do that, we'd probably have to hire about 15 full-time employees to help us cover that.
So there's so many different aspects to this food distribution game that requires so many people in the community to work together to feed people.
Volunteering here is easy because there are so many different ways to volunteer.
There are lots of times, it's easy to sign on, and it's only three hours out of your day or three hours out of your week.
It's not hard.
They've served so many people in such a broad area.
It's not something you can do on your own.
You have to have a big network to do this.
Many hands make light work.
JORDAN BROWNING: On a monthly basis, we're serving around, on average, about 70,000 individuals each and every month.
And so that's across our entire 28-county service area.
So many are so grateful that this is one less tradeoff choice that they have to make, because there's so many different systemic issues that need to be addressed when people are struggling with finances and things like that that we're tackling this need of food to make sure that that person can either fix their car or they can keep their utilities on, they can feed their kids dinner tonight.
And so, so much about what we do here is allowing people to not have to worry about food in their lives.
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