Our partners are vital to our mission of solving hunger in northern Nevada and the surrounding areas.
Our Partner Agencies are the boots on the ground in the fight against hunger. The Food Bank distributes more than 14 million pounds of food through this amazing network and we couldn’t do it without you! Thank you for being our partners each and every day to make sure that the families who need our help have the peace of mind knowing they will have the food that they need.
For more information on becoming a Partner Agency, click here.
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Welcome to Agency Express, our online ordering system for eligible partner agencies. This is your link to ordering food for your agency from the Food Bank warehouse. Questions? Please contact Marina Packee.
Each agency is required to submit monthly statistical reports of each person and meal served. Reports should be submitted to via email, and the previous month’s report is due by the 15th of each month.
View the Partner Agency Manual for all of the information to be successful and get the most from our partnership.
Other Resources
Below are some sample documents for you as a partner agency to review. If you are interested in becoming a partner, contact our staff and they will assess your organization and guide you through the application process.
Food Safety is a top priority for our clients and our partner agencies. If there is a recall of product provided by the Food Bank to our partner agencies, we will contact agency representatives. Please make sure that you read emails daily, quarantine, isolate and label any affected product and comply with disposal directions to maintain safety.
For a complete list of recalls, visit recalls.gov.
These online training videos are offered to assistant partner agencies. If you have questions, or have requests for future training videos, please reach out. For any required training videos, please be sure to submit any required questionnaires/certification of completion forms that accompany the video.
Civil Rights Training
tefap certification of eligibility and sign-in process
TEFAP Inventory & Participation Report Tutorial
TEFAP Inventory and Participation Report Tutorial: Residential and Congregate Version
Partners,
As we all know, the last several years have brought us many challenges and hurdles that together we have had to overcome, to keep doors open and provide much needed food assistance supports to our neighbors.
We have been fortunate during this time to have the financial and food resources, such as COVID supported TEFAP and CFAP, necessary to meet our communities’ need but now we need to begin to reset. I’m sure that many of you are doing the same. We are seeing less funding coming in for food assistance, yet we are seeing increased demand and need from our communities. FBNN is working on our food sourcing strategy for the upcoming 12-24 months and we need your help as we plan.
As those of you who have received TEFAP over the past 3 years know, the volume of TEFAP at its peak was over 8 million pounds of food. We have seen a steady decline in federal commodities nationwide the last 6-8 months and we are on track to have TEFAP volumes look similar to 2018. This is about a 5-million-pound decline from 2020/2021. We can’t simply buy food to replace these pounds, so we have to be more strategic in what we buy, how we buy and what you need and can financially support. In addition, we need to make sure that we are utilizing our partnerships such as local grocery stores. Partnerships with stores are a great way to access fresh, perishable food, but requires you to commit to using Meal Connect and reporting consistently. We have work to do here, and your partnership is necessary.
The survey below is intended to help us as we build our sourcing and procurement plan for this year. It’s critical that we hear from you. This is a PARTNERSHIP and in order for this partnership to work, two-way communication is needed. If you don’t respond to the survey, we will reach out and call you. If we are unable to connect with you, it will impact your ability to be eligible for any upcoming capacity or technology grants.
Thank you everyone!! We value our partnership with each of you, and we know how important your work is to the neighbors and communities that you support.
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2022 Partner Agency Conference
Each year the Food Bank of Northern Nevada holds a Partner Agency Conference to unite our local partner agencies and collaborate together on new and innovative ways to help hungry people in our communities.
Thank you so much for joining us for the 2022 Food Bank of Northern Nevada Partner Agency Conference!
We so enjoyed spending a day with so many of our partners and hope that you did as well. Below, you will find both video and audio-only options to watch/listen to this year’s Key Note presentation, as well as PDF files for many of our breakout session presentations.
2022 Key Note Speaker: Katie S. Martin, Author of Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger Listen to the presentation or watch the video below.
