Mid-Ohio Foodbank Tour

Considering my last post was so long, I'll make this one short and sweet.  And include pictures!  Above is front view of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank, affectionalty abbreviated as MOFB from here on out.

First, check out their impressive website: www.midohiofoodbank.org

It was truly a fantastic facility in every way.  It is one of the 12 member foodbanks that my organization heads up, so it acts like a distribution center to smaller food pantries and soup kitchens across mid-Ohio.  They just moved in to this facility in the past year, it was previously a matress factory.  Think of a huge warehouse of matresses, now full of bulk food!

As soon as you walk in you can actually see in to the warehouse, through three story high bay windows in the lobby.  Cool!

The best part is that they are LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified Gold.  See here for more information on that distinction.

THIS is the overview from the MOFB site on how their facility is designed.

Our favorite college football team, the Ohio State Buckeyes, loves the MOFB too!

NBC Dateline feature: America Now - Friends and Neighbors.

I feel like I am a part of truly making a difference with  OASHF and the Ohio Benefit Bank tool.  My program is also the largest VISTA program in the entire Mid-west, so that's kind of exciting as well.  What's more exciting?  Ann Curry travling to SE Ohio to report on poverty, feauturing people that work with OASHF and have benefitted from the OBB. 

THIS is an article about the news story.

There is a preview of the news feature HERE, but if you want to watch the entire thing when it airs, tune in to NBC Dateline this Sunday at 7 pm.  It's called "America Now - Friends and Neighbors."

NBC's Ann Curry travels to Ohio to examine poverty in the heartland, where the hardworking poor are increasingly seen in food pantry lines ashamed and angry.