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Feeding Tampa Bay outlines rising local hunger, expansion at Causeway Center
Summary
At a Tampa City Council meeting, Feeding Tampa Bay CEO Thomas Mance reported rising food insecurity, described the new Causeway Center and described meal totals, partner networks and recent disaster response work. Council members thanked the nonprofit for its regional role.
Feeding Tampa Bay President and CEO Thomas Mance told the Tampa City Council on April 17 that demand for food assistance in the region remains high and that the nonprofit is expanding services from its Causeway Center to offer more meals, job training and neighborhood services.
Mance told the council that Feeding Tampa Bay serves a 10-county catchment with “about a million plus people” who are technically food insecure. He said roughly 40–47 percent of people in the region do not have enough money to cover basic household expenses and that 16 percent of children in the community still live in poverty.
The numbers, Mance said, underscore the need for both emergency food distribution and broader supports such as nutrition education and workforce programs. “Most of the people that we serve are working,” he said. “A family that we serve…
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