Closing the Gap(s)

3. Food 4 Kids, which helps ensure that no schoolchildren go hungry on weekends. The program operates in 330 elementary schools in North Texas and feeds up to 12,000 students weekly. Every Friday, each eligible child receives a backpack that includes roughly four pounds of nutritious food items.

4. The Mobile Pantry program, which provides enough emergency food to last two people up to four days. It is designed to serve those that are unable to get to a food pantry to receive food.