Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Inc. - GuideStar Profile

Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Inc. - GuideStar Profile
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Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Inc.
Ending Hunger Today, Tomorrow and for a Lifetime
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GCFB, CFB
Cleveland, OH
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Mission
The Greater Cleveland Food Bank works to ensure that everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.
Ruling year
info
1980
President and CEO
Kristin Warzocha
Main address
13815 Coit Rd
Cleveland, OH 44110-2201 USA
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Physical Address
13815 Coit Rd
Cleveland, OH 44110-2201
Payment Address
13815 Coit Rd
Cleveland, OH 44110-2201
International Address
15500 S Waterloo Rd
Cleveland OH 44110-3800
International tel:
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Legal name of organization: Greater Cleveland Food Bank
EIN for payable organization: 34-1292848
Formerly known as
Cleveland Foodbank
EIN
34-1292848
NTEE code
info
Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs (K30)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
The mission of the Greater Cleveland Food Bank is to ensure that everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.
Our programs
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success,
and who do the programs serve?
Produce Distribution
Produce distributions are a method of direct community delivery where a Greater Cleveland Food Bank truck, full of fruit and vegetables, is brought to a central location for area clients. These same-day distributions are managed by a variety of partners and agencies, including faith-based organizations, community centers, schools, residential housing, senior centers, health care centers, and more. Produce distributions are available year-round to our entire service region. These "pop-up" markets occur on a monthly basis and supply the healthiest, most nutritious food at the Food Bank. From apples and beets, to watermelon and zucchini, the Food Bank provides a wide variety of produce.
Population(s) Served
Adults
Food as Medicine
Our "Food as Medicine" initiative is intended to improve health outcomes of our clients with food-related health challenges. This program is a collaborative project that involves health care facilities such as hospitals, clinics, and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Through a combination of healthy produce distributions, targeted clinical care, nutrition education, and other community resources, the Food as Medicine program eliminates some of the key barriers to improved health and well-being, such as a lack of access to healthy food.
Population(s) Served
Adults
Community Kitchen Program
The Greater Cleveland Food Bank Kitchen is a licensed and inspected full-service production kitchen. A professional staff, with the support of volunteers, prepares meals for over 100 agencies and program across the Food Bank's service area. Meals are provided to child nutrition programs, senior congregate and home-delivered meal programs, and member agencies serving meals to their communities. Offering menu options that emphasize nutrition, the Greater Cleveland Food Bank Kitchen produces well over 6,500 meals per day, increasing production during the busy summer months.
Population(s) Served
Adults
Pantry Program
Our partner pantry programs provide three-day supplies of food to families to take home. many of these pantries distribute food via the Client Choice model. This preferred method allows clients to select items that best fir their family's needs, instead of receiving a pre-packed bag of food. Pantry partners order the food they need from our shopping list for pick up or delivery.
Population(s) Served
Adults
Families
Hot Meal Program
Our partner hot meal programs prepare food on-site for individuals and families to enjoy. each site must be equipped with a kitchen and appropriate spaces to serve the meal. All hot meal sites are able to order food off of our main shopping list, as well as meals prepared by our kitchen.
Population(s) Served
Adults
Families
Children's Nutrition Initiatives
The Backpack for Kids program provides food for low-income children each weekend when they do not have access to the free reduced-price school lunches available to them during the week. Each week, Food Bank volunteers pack six child-friendly meals per student into bags, which are delivered to our partner sites. The bags include various items such as milk, pasta, tuna, peanut butter, vegetables, cereal, fruit and snack items. The children take the food home over the weekend in an unmarked, nondescript backpack provided by the Food Bank. Kids Cafes provide free meals and snacks to low-income children through a variety of community partners where children already congregate during afterschool hours, such as Boys and Girls Clubs, churches or public schools. All Kids Cafe programs also offer nutrition education throughout the school year. Nutrition programming is an essential way to educate kids on the importance of making healthy lifestyle choices. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank has partnered with the Cleveland Clinic to train our educators on their "Food is Knowledge" curriculum, which is a comprehensive lesson plan that includes education, recipes, and physical activity. The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides free, nutritous meals to help children in low-income areas get the nutrition they need to learn, plya and grow throughout the summer months when school is not in sessions. SFSP is targeted to low-income areas where 50 percent or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals. Sites such as parks, schools, libraries, recreation centers and churches can participate in SFSP. School Market Programs are designed to help alleviate child hunger through the provision of food to children, their families, and the immediate school community. School-based markets are located at or adjacent to school properties and are intended to provide a more readily accessible source of food assistance to low-income students and their families. through this program, the Food bank delivers a truckload of free, fresh produce for distribution by partner sites on a regular basis, ideally monthly. Cooking demonstrations, nutrition tips, and benefits outreach also help provide additional resources.
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Senior Nutrition Programs
The Commodity Supplemental Food Programs (CSFP) is a federally funded program that works to improve the health of low-income elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods. The Food bank received food for more than 700 total boxes each month, which are packed by volunteers and distributed to agencies serving seniors. Examples of food included through CSFP are rice, oats, juice, canned vegetables, dry beans, and cereals. The Senior Meals Program provides nutritious meals to help seniors live healthier and more nourished lives in their own homes. Through our partnerships, meals are prepared in our Community Kitchen. The meals are either delivered to community centers or picked up by partners for delivery to homebound seniors on a daily basis. Senior Markets are a new initiative where healthy, nutritious food is provided to low-income seniors residing in larger apartment and housing complexes. volunteers and staff of a senior housing complex work to distribute food to seniors that reside on-site in an effort to assist these seniors with difficult choices, like paying for rent versus paying for food. Cooking demonstrations, nutrition tips, and benefits outreach also help to provide additional resources to seniors through this model.
Population(s) Served
Older adults
Benefits Outreach
The Benefits Outreach Department assists clients with the application process for public benefits and helps connect them to hot meals, food pantries, and produce distributions in their neighborhoods. In addition, this team directs clients to other community partners that help address employment, housing, and health care issues - the three most common causes of food insecurity. Outreach Counselors are out in the community on a daily basis to help people in-person. The Food Bank also houses the only Help Center in the state that helps low-income community members apply for food (SNAP/Food Stamps), cash, and other forms of assistance over the phone. The Help Center can be reached at 216.738.2067.
Population(s) Served
Adults
Where we work
Ashland County (Ohio, United States)
Ashtabula County (Ohio, United States)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio, United States)
Geauga County (Ohio, United States)
Lake County (Ohio, United States)
Richland County (Ohio, United States)
Affiliations & memberships
Feeding America
Affiliate/Chapter of National Organization (i.e. Girl Scouts of the USA, American Red Cross, etc.) - Affiliate/chapter
1979
Our results
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
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Pounds Distributed
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Context Notes
Includes fresh produce, dairy, grains, and proteins.
Unique neighbors served
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Context Notes
Service by Food Bank and 1.085 partners across 6-county service area.
Volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Context Notes
Volunteers provided more than 108,500 hours of service
Goals & Strategy
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Food Bank is in it's 3rd year of a 3-year strategic plan. Goals include:
FEEDING OUR NEIGHBORS TODAY: The Food Bank is committed to distributing even more nutritious food and fresh produce, and reaching more people through targeted programming—particularly children, their families, people with health challenges and seniors.
CREATING A FOOD SECURE TOMORROW: The Food Bank is expanding our partnerships with organizations focused on the three primary drivers of food insecurity: employment, housing and healthcare. As an organization, we already help people apply for public benefits, and these additional connections and programs will help our partners and clients build increased food security resources.
USING DATA TO MEET THE NEED: The Food Bank is enhancing our measurements of success. We are developing new metrics and systems for tracking outcomes so we can better assess and refine what works. This means increased resource efficiency, and powerful community impact.
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR FUTURE GROWTH: The Food Bank is creating capacity to meet community needs. This means capital improvements to expand existing programs like meal preparation, and space to create new programs. It also means fostering a culture of continuous improvement, embracing diversity and an entrepreneurial mindset to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We have several strategies including working with our network of more than 1,000 partner programs to offer significantly more nutritious perishable food and provide employment, housing and health care resources to their clients through other nonprofit partners in the community. We will enhance our programmatic offerings, including Food as Medicine, to reach more children, families, and people with health challenges. We will continue to increase our distribution of nutritious perishable food, including fresh produce. We will continue to build the capacity of our board, staff and volunteers with a focus on attracting, developing and retaining top talent. We will continue to help eligible people enroll in SNAP. We will begin to measure the impact of our work for the people we serve in regards to increased food security and their health and well-being. We will make diversity, equity, and inclusion strengths of our organization. We will make capital investments that helps us meet community needs for nutritious food, now and in the future.
Financials
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Operations
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Board of directors
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Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Inc.
Board of directors
as of

04/07/2026
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Allen Smith
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio
Anthony Rego
LIFE DIRECTOR
Asmita Shirali Goldblum
DIRECTOR
Chloe Seelbach
DIRECTOR
Dan Saltzman
DIRECTOR
David Rosenberg
DIRECTOR
Drew Martin
PNC
Elizabeth Grove
Lubrizol
Gregory Stefani
DIRECTOR
Janet Rosel Smith
DIRECTOR
Jeffery Patterson
DIRECTOR
Jeneen Marziani
DIRECTOR
Jenner Tekancic
DIRECTOR
Joe Dirocco
VICE CHAIR
John Cymanski
DIRECTOR
John Nestor
Kirtland Capital Partners
Karen Dolan
DIRECTOR
Magda Gomez
DIRECTOR
Manisha Sethi
DIRECTOR
Maria Spangler
VICE CHAIR
Matthew Mueller
TREASURER
Rahul Wadhawan
DIRECTOR
Riddi Kline
CHAIR
Rob Moll
DIRECTOR
Ryan Puente
City of Cleveland
Sabrina Roberts
Cuyahoga County
Stephen Mchale
DIRECTOR
Tilman Moe
DIRECTOR
Tricia Eschbach-Hall
DIRECTOR
Vic Digeronimo
DIRECTOR
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations?
yes
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ?
yes
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year?
yes
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership?
yes
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years?
yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
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