About Us
Foods Resource Bank (FRB) works on behalf of its member organizations - 15 of the mainline Christian denominations or their agencies - to mobilize and increase the resources needed to support smallholder, agricultural food security programs in some of the world's poorest villages. In the U.S., community "growing projects" raise a crop or other marketable resource, monetize it, and make the proceeds available to FRB. These financial resources are provided to the member organizations of FRB, who work with their in-country partners worldwide to help local communities to become self-sufficient and food-secure, producing enough to feed themselves and vulnerable individuals (AIDS orphans, the elderly, women and children), with extra to share, barter or sell to purchase basic medicines and staples, and send ALL their children to school.
All FRB assistance is provided in accordance with the principles of the International Humanitarian Code of Conduct.
THE MISSION
Foods Resource Bank's goal is to engage the grassroots agricultural community in the U.S., along with individuals, churches and urban communities, to grow solutions to hunger problems in our world.
FRB seeks to participate in helping to alleviate hunger throughout our world by working to establish food security through sustainable development activities. Food security is achieved "when all persons at all times have the physical and economic access to enough food to provide the nutrients they need for productive, active and healthy lives."
FRB helps to achieve this mission by:
· Forming a coalition in the U.S. of mission-minded farmers, along with agricultural business people supported monetarily by caring individuals, churches, and communities.
· Developing and carrying out plans to produce and provide an effective supply of new resources to be used for food security programs in the developing world, proposed to FRB by its member organizations and consummated through proven in-country partners.
Resources are derived from the sale of donations of agricultural or food commodities through:
· Farmer/community growing projects
· Gifts of grain from individual farms
· Other church/community fundraising efforts
Donations and support are also received from:
· Individuals
· Corporations and Foundations
· Government agencies
This concept ensures an effective mechanism and structure to provide vital resources to FRB's member organizations and their proven in-country partners, while educating the U.S. citizens on issues of world hunger, and re-establishing a connectedness between rural and urban/suburban communities which has been lost over the last 75 years.