Houston Food Bank merges with End Hunger Network, a Houston-area Food Rescue organization. Annual distribution is 46,000,000 pounds for that fiscal year.
FEMA declares 15 of HFB’s 18 counties as disaster areas. HFB distributes 500,000 pounds of disaster relief product per day, extends operating hours, and opens four additional off-site storage facilities to accommodate the increase of product being received and distributed.
HFB distributes 6,400,000 pounds in disaster relief. Special Katrina response deliveries are made to the George R. Brown Convention Center and to Louisiana.
HFB distributes a record 27,000,000 pounds of food and product to 18 Southeast Texas counties.
Volunteers share their talents and 93,000 hours of their valuable time, the equivalent of having 44 additional full-time staff members.
HFB distributes more than 21 million pounds of food and other essentials to 500 member programs in 26 counties, equating to providing access to 52,000 meals per day on average.
The Food Bank reaches a new milestone of distributing 200 million pounds of nutritious foods in total since 1982.
Houston Food Bank becomes the nation’s fourth largest food bank.
Houston Food Bank sets a new weekly distribution record of 908,211 pounds in December and reaches a total of 100 million pounds distributed to date since opening in 1982.
The Food Bank expands refrigeration space to 121,000 cubic feet and receives more than 1.5 million pounds of surplus food from the Gulf War in Operation Desert Share.
