As the number on grocery price tags grows, local food banks also take on greater spending for families in need.
Leaders at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona said, despite a dip from pandemic demand giving them a small measure of rest, recent inflation hasn't spared their supplies.
"We'll serve 1000s of people over the course of the next week," Malea Chavez shared,"And we've been just doing a lot of preparation." In its fiscal budget year ending this past June, the CFBSA said it had distributed more than 62 million pounds of food to roughly 316,000 people. Chavez, as well as the food bank's board and leadership teams, will have to manage finances as families across the region are also doing.
A recent report from the American Farm Bureau broke down the average cost for a typical thanksgiving dinner. On a personal level, Chavez said she wants to give back to both a cause she's championed in her career and a community she calls home. The best way to do that, she said, is by making sure the bank and all its partners work together to keep shelves stocked and mouths fed.
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