Resource Materials

Useful Brochures
You can print these black-and-white, tri-fold brochures to spread the word about the Food Bank.

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$10 gift poster Thanks to surplus food donors and incredible efficiency, the Food Bank can distribute good food for about 1/10 of its retail value – as the poster points out. Click to download a PDF that fits on 11″ x 17″ paper.	How your Food Bank works. This colorful poster shows how Feeding America West Michigan manages to help feed 100,000+ West Michigan families – while keeping tons and tons of good food out of landfills. This easy-to-understand, printable PDF fits an 11″ x 17″ sheet of paper.
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The Power to Move Mountains Hunger doesn’t just hurt 100,000+ West Michigan families: It also cripples our economy and society overall. But fighting hunger with Feeding America West Michigan helps solve related problems (some of them quite surprising). This two-sided, printable PDF explains why it pays for companies to support the Food Bank. It fits on a legal-size sheet of paper.
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Waste-Not Want-Not
Tools based on our award winning study of charity food programs.

Charity Food Programs That Can End Hunger in America A comprehensive guide to ending hunger for food pantries, food banks, and the volunteers and donors who support them.	Charity Food Programs That Can End Hunger in America An abridged edition prepared by the World Hunger Program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Also available online here.
Food Pantry Best Practices Evaluation To make ending hunger possible, the average food pantry needs to score at least a 70. What does your pantry score?	How to Run a Food Pantry A straightforward guide based on the Waste Not Want Not research.
Words of Faith Quotes pertaining to poverty, hunger, helping and charity.

Videos
Moving pictures worth a thousand words.