This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by the Montana Food Bank Network. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2006,
conducted for America's Second Harvest (A2H), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 52,000 clients served by the A2H food bank network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 30,000 A2H agencies. The study summarized below focuses mainly on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the A2H network.
Key Findings:
conducted for America's Second Harvest (A2H), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 52,000 clients served by the A2H food bank network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 30,000 A2H agencies. The study summarized below focuses mainly on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the A2H network.
Key Findings:
- The A2H system served by the Montana Food Bank Network provides food for an
estimated 80,200 different people annually. - 33% of the members of households served by the Montana Food Bank Network
are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2). - 57% of client households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).
- Among client households with children, 87% are food insecure and 44% are
experiencing hunger (Table 6.1.1). - 60% of clients served by the Montana Food Bank Network report having to choose
between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1). - 32% of clients had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).
- 20% of households served by the Montana Food Bank Network report having at
least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1) - The Montana Food Bank Network included approximately 154 agencies at the
administration of this survey, of which 97 have responded to the agency survey.
Of the responding agencies, 79 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or
shelter. - 30% of pantries, 50% of kitchens, and 26% of shelters are run by faith-based
agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious
organizations (Table 10.6.1). - 70% of pantries, 49% of kitchens, and 18% of shelters of the Montana Food Bank
Network reported that there had been an increase since 2001 in the number of
clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1). - Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for the agencies,
accounting for 62% of the food used by pantries, 16% of kitchens' food, and 23%
of shelters' food (Table 13.1.1). - For the Montana Food Bank Network, 90% of pantries, 91% of kitchens, and 68%
of shelters use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).
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