Closing the Gap(s)

Brinkmann, the chief philanthropy officer for the North Texas Food Bank, was the driving force behind Close the Gap, so-called because the three-year fundraising campaign began in 2009 with the goal of closing the 29 million-meals-a-year gap between what undernourished people in North Texas needed and what they could access. This meant NTFB had to double its impact by increasing its output from 26 million meals to 50 million meals annually.