Amazon’s Multifaceted Partnership Brings Hope to community

HOUSTON, October 13, 2021 — (BUSINESS WIRE) – In partnership with Amazon, the Houston Food Bank gives hope to the local network in the form of much-needed food and food delivered directly to the doors of vulnerable Houstonians in need Since Amazon established its network delivery program with the Houston Food Bank in May 2020, the company has delivered more than 500,000 foods to vulnerable families, children and seniors in the Greater Houston area. In addition, the Houston Food Bank gained logistics from Amazon’s Houston distribution center, which helped pack boxes of food equivalent to more than 450,000 foods.

“One of the most important classes they learned about the pandemic, especially for must-have organizations/workers and those on the front lines, is the importance of partnerships and collaboration for the common good,” said Brian Greene, president and CEO of Houston Food Bank, the country’s largest food bank in the retail sector. For organizations like Houston Food Bank, which have noticed an unprecedented call for assistance along with increased restrictions, decreased volunteer numbers, and strict fitness and protection protocols, those partnerships have been very important in achieving Amazon has had, and continues to make, a massive impact. They saw a need, then committed and planned to make a difference in the local communities where their workers live and work.

Amazon’s Houston fulfillment center led the local partner to do even more by doing what Amazon does best: packing and shipping the product. After traveling to the Houston food bank’s main warehouse with its control team, Amazon figured out a way to use its own warehouse capacity and volunteer workers to ease some of the food bank’s logistical load.

For this new initiative, products not consistent with disposables are delivered from the Houston Food Bank to Amazon’s fulfillment center in Houston, where Amazon volunteers unload, sort and repack individual food and food into boxes and re-palletize, then deliver the pallets (55 pallet-consistent instances) to the Houston Food Bank’s main warehouse for simple and effective distribution to the community. In the more than six months, this new initiative has produced more than 600,000 pounds of food, out of more than 450,000 packaged foods through the Amazon team.

“Our painters are part of the fabric of Houston’s network paintings and there is no greater joy for me than to be able to use my career at Amazon to serve those in need as well,” said Sundeep Sangha, site manager, Amazon Customer Service. “We are very proud to be able to leverage our scale for smart in the communities where our painters live, paint and play. »

Amazon also partnered with the Houston Food Bank’s Teacher Assistance Program and co-sponsored a volunteer opportunity on September 18, donating school supplies and sharing data on SNAP acceptance and with 800 teachers from Title 1 schools representing 10 school districts in the Houston area.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has supported food banks and network organizations with free, contactless delivery of groceries and prepackaged foods, a network of Amazon delivery service partners around the world. 25 U. S. cities and communities USA In Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom.

For help and more information about Houston Food Bank, visit www. houstonfoodbank. org.

About the Houston Food Bank

The Houston Food Bank project is to provide food for a better life. In the subsequent fiscal year, which includes the reaction to COVID-19, we provided access to 207 million nutritious foods in 18 counties in Southeast Texas through our network of more than 1,800 pantry spouses, soup kitchens, service providers social and schools. To fill in the gaps on plates, we focus on healthy foods and new products. Working with our network, we advocate for policy replacement and racial equity, and publicize discussion on tactics to increase access to food and improve the lives of members of our communities, adding facilities and links to systems that assume the reasons. fundamentals of hunger. and they aim to help families achieve long-term stability: nutrition education, skills training, fitness monitoring and support. Obtaining aid financed by the State. We are a resource for Americans and families in difficult times. Houston Food Bank works alongside our spouses’ food banks in County, Galveston County, and the Brazos Valley. Houston Food Bank is a qualified member of Feeding America, the national network of food banks, with a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.

Visit us online. Website: houstonfoodbank. org; Facebook: facebook. com/thehoustonfoodbank; Twitter: @houstonfoodbank; Instagram: @houstonfoodbank; YouTube channel: youtube. com/houstonfoodbank

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Contacts

Paula Murphy, 832-723-6983, paula @ pattersonandmurpy. com or Adele Brady, 713-547-8674, abrady @ houstonfoodbank. org