2016-647-E Finance - TABLE - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:B32F3E9F-996A-4000-8CAF-83514F2E5759 t A- continued Provider's Outside Agency Application oyepr,„e,,, ,2pJ„,y,..apigrov, ! TABLE feeding local hungry kids Agency Information What is T Joy Mac Vane and several UNC students founded TABLE in November 2007 (incorporated on the 21st). Our founders recognized the prevalence of hungry children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area and noticed that there were no food assistance services for children. Our Mission is to bring together UNC college students and local community members to feed hungry children in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. TABLE has three goals: to provide weekly emergency food aid to local hungry children, to educate and expose our little ones to healthy foods and eating habits, and increase community awareness of local childhood hunger. TABLE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that began feeding 12 local elementary school children in 2008 and has since expanded to provide healthy food to 500 children each week. TABLE has four programs to support its mission and goals: 1) The Weekend Meal Backpack Program provides healthy non-perishables, local fresh produce and fresh milk to Children that are at risk of hunger on weekends and school holidays; 2) Snack Chef exposes our children to fresh foods and teaches them how to make easy, healthy snacks at home; 3) Summer TABLE provides healthy food to local kids for 8 weeks in the summer months; 4) TABLE On the Go (our newest program) allows children the opportunity to visit local farms, farmer's markets, and community gardens so they may learn about healthy food, their community, and where their food comes from. While there are a number of wonderful hunger-relief non-profits in the area - IFC, PORCH, Heavenly Groceries, Meals on Wheels, etc, TABLE is the only organization to deliver healthy food directly into the hands of our community's children. We admire and respect each of these organizations and recognize the gap they fill in the community. We collaborate with many of them in various ways. We provide food that is inappropriate for our kids to IFC and Heavenly Groceries (such as expired foods within 1 year, glass spaghetti sauce, or cornmeal). While Meals on Wheels has a significantly different Mission than that of TABLE, we have had some discussions regarding the possibility of sharing space. We have also had a number of conversations with PORCH about how we can collaborate with one another. Currently, both PORCH and TABLE work through school social workers who can identify which children have families that receive monthly bags of food from PORCH and which children carry home weekly bags of food from TABLE. Additionally, we are in the early stages of working with each of these organizations to put an end to summer hunger in Chapel Hill and Carrboro with Mayor Fiemminger and others.