Pantry Serves 3,000 More People at One-Third Less Cost
November 18, 2024
How does a food pantry serve 3,000 more people and distribute 113,000 more pounds of food, yet reduce its overall costs by one-third? For Minneapolis-based NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center’s Community Food Shelf, it started with jelly – and a lot of data.
NorthPoint is a choice pantry that regularly purchased jelly so shoppers could make PB&J sandwiches at home. But when it reviewed a Food Sourcing Analysis Report prepared by Minneapolis-based Foundation for Essential Needs, it became clear the cost of all that jelly added up.
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