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Food Bank Director Wins National Award 4/2/2009 
At the 2009 Feeding America National Conference, John Arnold was honored with the national organization's highest award given an individual, the John van Hengel Award. John van Hengel created the world's first regional food bank in Phoenix, AZ in 1967. His idea has now spread worldwide and now annually routes over two billion pounds of food aid to needy Americans. Feeding America, formerly called America's Second Harvest, is the national association of America's food banks, and each year honors one individual with an award named after Mr. van Hengel for their contributions in advancing the art and science of food banking. John Arnold has directed Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank (formerly Second Harvest Gleaners Food Bank of West Michigan) since 1989, having previously directed the Central Illinois Foodbank and the St. Louis Area Food Bank, and serving as the national association's first Director of Network Services. His many innovations and initiatives include: pioneering food banking services in rural areas, developing a branch food bank model now copied nationally, starting 10 food banks, promotion of formulas for estimating areas' food aid and food agency needs, coordinating international award-winning research on how communities can adequately address their hunger problem, promotion of "client choice" (clients picking out their own food), and pioneering the use of former beer delivery trucks as mobile food pantries. Under his direction West Michigan's food bank has grown from distributing 3.1 million pounds in 1988 to 22.0 million pounds in 2008. To read the full press release, click here. Second Harvest Gleaners is now Feeding America West Michigan | |||
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