MANNA FOOD CENTER - SILVER SPRING, MD

MULTI-SITE FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ANALYSIS

IMPACT ANALYSIS | 2016 - 2017

Manna Food Center is the largest food security organization focused on Montgomery County, Maryland. Food Works Group (FWG) developed the framework and performed the analysis of Manna's flagship, 24-site food distribution program, evaluating the efficiency, equity, and efficacy of current and prospective distribution sites. Soon after, FWG was brought on to advise Manna on their contribution to the county’s Food Security Plan. FWG formulated recommendations to help transition the county's many dozens of hunger-relief agencies to more standardized data collection methods, including which data to collect to better understand the populations who visit hunger-relief agencies, to identify priority root causes of poverty, and to assess program success.