Acronyms
CACFP
What is Child & Adult Care Food Program?
Since 1991, this program has provided a low cost coption for individuals and families to purchase a box of food to help stretch their food budget.
What is Food $en$e?
The Food Bank almost tripled the square footage of their facility by relocating to 7066 Interstate Island Rd in this year.
What is 2010?
This Food Bank county is home to one of the world's only known source of diamonds.
What is Herkimer?
What are the Senate and Assembly?
HPNAP
What is Hunger Prevention & Nutrition Assistance Program?
Grant funding helped start this program which saw its first market-style distribution held in Utica. Today this program hosts more than 20 drive-thru distributions per month.
What is Mobile Food Pantry(MFP)?
In 2004, FBCNY became the first food bank in the nation to institute a nutrition policy to not accept or distribute what two items.
What is soda and candy?
This is the flagship town for Chobani.
What is New Berlin?
The Food Bank's eleven county service area overlaps with this many congressional districts.
What is 4?
TEFAP
What is the Emergency Food Assistance Program?
In 2020, a Make-A-Wish child helped start this program that today provides boxes of food to children in both Syracuse and Utica to combat food scarcity during schools breaks.
What is Caden's Wish Break Box Program?
When the Food Bank was formed in 1985 they served just Onondaga County. In what year did the service area grow to include our current 11 counties.
What is 1986?
What is Lowville?
This federal legislation authorizes the structure and funding for both TEFAP and SNAP.
What is the Farm Bill?
RPA
What is Nutrition Outreach & Education Program?
Beginning in 2015, nutrition education workshops have been conducted during the summers in this public space.
What is the Downtown Farmers' Market?
The Food Bank's SavorSyracuse event began in 1996 under this name
What is Tast of the Nation?
This town features a giant roll of Lifesavers candy in the town square.
What is Gouverneur?
This program was created in 2020 during the pandemic and made permanent in 2021, providing support for food banks to purchase eligible products from New York food producers and farmers.
What is Nourish New York?
NOEP
What is Nutrition Outreach & Education Program?
You can find Pantry Pal food lockers in these two counties.
What is Oswego and Cortland?
The Kids Cafe Program Began with a partner in Utica in 1997. The program expanded with three sites in Syracuse during this year.
What is 1998?
The geographic center of NY State is in this Food Bank county.
What is Madison County?
This now retired member of congress helped to secure $2M for the Food Bank's expansion project.
Who is John Katko?