Organizational Overview

Foods Resource Bank, a Christian response to world hunger, was born to mobilize the resources needed to support smallholder, agricultural, food security programs in some of the world’s poorest villages. Our goal is to enable people to feed themselves, make extra money for education and create new lives.

The Need

In 1999, a group of faith-based organizations, as well as agribusinesses and farmers, united to explore ways to address world hunger. These organizations and individuals knew that with resources, some of the poorest people in our world could grow their own food.

FRB does not ship grain or food overseas. Rather, we assist smallholder farmers and communities in the developing world with the seeds, animals, tools, instruction, water supply, whatever is needed to produce enough food to feed themselves and their families, with enough left over to share, barter or sell to purchase staples and basic medicines and send all their children to school. The best thing we offer people is our belief in them… the belief that they can do it themselves!

All overseas programming is led by FRB’s members  and partners who propose, implement, monitor, complete, and report on the programs. Each program is unique and program funds are offered unconditionally to those who have the need. 

U.S.Growing Projects/Overseas Programs

FRB supports its overseas programs through its Growing Projects here in the U.S. The Growing Projects bring farmers, agribusinesses, landowners, and non-farm people (usually from urban and suburban churches) together to raise hunger awareness and generate dollars for FRB’s overseas programs.  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, and government agencies.

During 2007 Growing Projects in 20 states raised over $2,600,000 to support 52 overseas programs in 32 countries benefiting over 395,000 people at an annual cost of $5.27 per person! Two-thirds of our work is in sub-Saharan Africa. We are also present in Asia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The thousands of people who have become self-sufficient are a testimony to the restorative power of a simple gift.

Our Mission

FRB’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 throughout the world. FRB seeks to participate in helping to alleviate hunger 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.”

Please consider joining us.

 www.foodsresourcebank.org

 or 1-888-276-4FRB

 Updated: January 15, 2008