Alton, Mo. – The Alton Senior Center recently received a capacity building grant thanks to Ozarks Food Harvest $1 million investment in agency infrastructure in southwest Missouri. This grant will allow the Alton Senior Center to expand hunger relief for families in Oregon County.
Grant
The grant funding will purchase awnings which will help sustain food capacity by providing covering to our seniors while receiving and distributing our food and feed families in Oregon County. The Alton Senior Center was one of more than seventy organizations chosen by Ozarks Food Harvest to receive an agency capacity grant to assist with hunger-relief efforts.
Thanks to Ozarks Food Harvest, this grant has blessed this center as we are receiving food to distribute to our seniors, as well as our seniors coming to the center to receive that food in inclement weather.
Ozarks Food
Ozarks Food Harvest is the Feeding America food bank for southwest Missouri, serving 270 charities across 28 counties. The capacity building investment is part of the Food Banks’s mutli-faceted strategy to address needs identified in Missouri’s Food Assistance and Hunger in the Heartland 2021 report conducted by the MU Interdisciplinary Center for Food Security. The Food Bank reaches 50,000 individuals monthly and provides more than twenty million meals annually.
You can learn more on their website or Facebook page. Bark Brown, president/CEO of Ozarks Food Harvest, stated:
These grant funds are an investment in the future of our community’s food system. Increasing access to food is key as our network of hunger-relief charities continue to deal with the expanding cost of food and fuel.
The Alton Senior Center also commented,
As the price of everyday living has increased, we have seen a huge increase in the need of our food providing services by our seniors. Most depend solely on us for a daily hot meal as well as home delivered meals.
