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Longevity in serving social services has answered many of his early-on queries. Questions like: Is it more beneficial to attack the sources of suffering than to relieve immediate pain; more beneficial to be concerned about unemployment than providing baskets of food to the hungry; more beneficial to study literacy than teaching adults to read.
Today, Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services operation has answered these questions. SFBFS is simultaneously tackling all of the above needs and has come up with some very concrete solutions.
SFBFS runs a very lean grassroots organization with an incredibly efficient professional staff of 25, and a volunteer workforce of over 800. Despite the fact that operating costs for many non-profits escalate annually, SFBFS has effectively managed to keep the quality and quantity of services at the highest standards. In other words, SFBFS has been able to meet increasing demands for services with the same (or even less) money in certain program areas each year. SFBFS does this by leveraging donated dollars when buying food, baby supplies, reading materials, and much more for pennies on the dollar. |
