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Leveraging Partnerships to Address Food Insecurity in North Texas Communities

The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) and community partners have collaborated to understand food sourcing behaviors among low-income individuals. By observing that many healthy eaters were shopping at convenience stores, we identified the lack of engagement with non-profit food providers. A new survey revealed that 33.5% of respondents accessed food from pantries in the last six months. With insights gained from this partnership, we aim to explore better solutions for food acquisition and improve service implementation in the Fair Park neighborhood.

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Leveraging Partnerships to Address Food Insecurity in North Texas Communities

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  1. Questions and Comments Brief Commentary Tammy Leonard

  2. North Texas Food Bank Hunger Center Partnership An example of leveraging our joint expertise.

  3. What we did • Observed a puzzle: low income people eating very healthy, but reporting to shop at convenience stores. • What was missing?  Non-profit food providers • Partnered with NTFB to identify non-profit providers and developed new survey questions to understand food acquisition from both commercial and non-profit sources

  4. Charitable Food Providers • 38 Charitable Food Providers serving the Fair Park Neighborhood • 33.5% of respondents received food from at least one pantry in the last 6 months

  5. Charitable Food Providers • 65% of those who received food from a charitable food source within the last 6 months visited: • Community Baptist Church • Child Care Group MLK • Peoples Missionary Baptist Church • Cornerstone Baptist Church • Good Street Baptist Church • Exline Park • Mt. Olive Lutheran Church • St. Luke United Methodist Church • Dallas Bethlehem Center • YMCA NTFB Member Agencies

  6. Some Considerations… • What’s next: • How do the results inform what is being done locally? • How can we leverage our joint expertise to inform.. • New questions? • Better interpretation of current results? • New solutions coupled with robust analysis?

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