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Heart of Alabama Food Bank asks Montgomery County for $100,000 after USDA program cuts
Summary
Michael Coleman, CEO of the Heart of Alabama Food Bank, told the Montgomery County Commission the agency faces an $800,000 shortfall for Montgomery County after recent USDA cuts and asked the county to match a $100,000 commitment already pledged by the city.
Michael Coleman, chief executive officer of the Heart of Alabama Food Bank, asked the Montgomery County Commission in an April meeting to provide $100,000 in one-time support after federal reductions that, he said, sharply cut the nonprofit’s local supply and administrative funding.
Coleman told commissioners the food bank distributed about 4,720,000 pounds of food in Montgomery County in the past 12 months — roughly 4,000,000 meals at Feeding America’s estimated retail equivalent — and that recent U.S. Department of Agriculture program cuts removed about $600,000 in funding and roughly 2,000,000 pounds of product the bank…
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