The Bay Area Food Bank

Mobicon is proud to announce The Bay Area Food Bank has been selected as this year's charity! The Bay Area Food Bank's mission statement reads:

The Bay Area Food Bank, working through member organizations and special programs, will provide nutritious food to meet the challenge of feeding people who are hungry as a result of personal crisis or disaster. The Bay Area Food Bank will educate the public regarding domestic hunger, proper nutrition and related issues.

The Bay Area Food Bank, a member of The United Way and America's Second Harvest, is a nonprofit organization 501(c)(3), privately operated, which solicits, collects, stores, and distributes edible surplus food. They serve a 21 county service area which includes the eight southern-most counties in Mississippi, all of Coastal Alabama and the four western Counties in the Florida Panhandle; the area from DeFuniak Springs, Florida to the Mississippi/Louisiana state line.They serve over 650 charitable, nonprofit tax-exempt organizations that provide food without charge to the ill, needy, children, elderly, and homeless. Churches, halfway houses, senior citizen groups, community centers, foster homes, and disaster relief agencies benefit.

For more information, check out their website at www.bayareafoodbank.org

For more information, please contact Wayne Hergenroder

See Below for photo of check presentation the Bay Area Food Bank

Letter of Appreciation from the Bay Area Food Bank from June 2009, along with reciept.