2010 Recipients
The following CAFB Partner Agencies will recieve shares of produce during the 2010 harvest season:
Allen Chapel AME – Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church provides many different outreach ministries for their community including HIV/AIDS awareness programs, organizing community political events, prison ministry, cancer support ministry, a food bank, and providing food and clothing donations in subsidized apartment complexes.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for two different programs at Allen Chapel. The Church provides a food pantry to the residents of wards 7 and 8 on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week to about 250 families, and to residents of the Knox Hill Senior Dwelling in southeast.
Bread For The City – Bread for the City provides vulnerable residents of Washington, DC, with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Share the Harvest helps fund fresh produce distributed at the food pantry for clients of Bread for the City. Eligible clients are low-income residents of DC who are elderly, disabled or families with children. Eligible clients may receive food every month, for a total of almost 5,000 grocery bags distributed monthly.
Carl Vogel Center – Carl Vogel Center (CVC) is a nonprofit community-based organization that provides multidisciplinary and integrated medical healthcare that embodies all aspects of a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. CVC helps medically undeserved individuals to become full partners and informed advocates in managing their health.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for the Carl Vogel Center food pantry that distributes food weekly along with nutritional education and services to about 130 people. Carl Vogel Center provides free food and personal care products to low-income clients and their families on bi monthly basis. The Food Bank distributes over 25,000 pounds a food a year.
Damien Ministries - Damien Ministries is a faith-based nonprofit organization which helps people living with HIV/AIDS through case management, transitional housing, a food bank, and a retreat program.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for the food pantry of Damien Ministries. With a list of nearly 1300 clients, each person receives two to four bags of groceries per month, with enough food supplements to last up to 14 days.
Father McKenna Center – Father McKenna Center is a center for Homeless men that seeks to improve the facilities and services available to the Homeless so that they will know that they are valued and loved; and to empower the Homeless to do more for themselves.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce to the 1,259 men in the drop-in center daily lunch weekly, 1,193 men at the Wednesday evening Peace meal weekly, and as well as distribute it to 332 food pantry clients and their families weekly.
Martha’s Table - Martha’s Table works to help at-risk children, youth, families and individuals in the DC community to improve their lives by providing educational programs, food, clothing, and enrichment opportunities.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for three different programs at Martha’s Table. The programs are McKenna’s Wagon, a Mobile street feeding program serving more than 800 meals 7 days a week, a children & youth meal program providing 3 meals every weekday to 270 enrolled children, and Martha’s Pantry emergency grocery program serving an average of 300 people per month.
Miriam’s Kitchen- Miriam’s Kitchen provides individualized services that address the causes and consequences of homelessness in an atmosphere of dignity and respect, both directly and through facilitating connections in Washington, DC.
Share the Harvest helps fund the produce for the free, homemade meals made daily for more than 4,000 homeless men and women each year.
True Vine Center – The True Vine Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization offering a number of educational, social and cultural programs to youths and adults living in the immediate area of Temple Hills, MD and those residing in its surrounding areas.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for the food pantry of the Vine Program that provides a weekly food distribution each Wednesday and on an emergency basis to 50 clients and those who have a need.
Western Fairfax Christian Ministries – WFCM was originally founded by a coalition of 12 local churches concerned about the growing need for emergency assistance within the areas of Centreville, Clifton, Chantilly, Fair Oaks, and Fairfax Station, VA and provides life-essential support to those seeking assistance.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for the food pantry of WFCM that offers over 4,100 appointments and serves more than 2,500 different families over the course of a year in the western Fairfax area Monday-Saturday. WFCM distributes over $1.2 million worth of food per year, and provides each family with approximately $300 worth of food each month.