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North Country Food Bank is a nonprofit agency that distributes almost 165,000 pounds of food products to over 160 hunger relief agencies in northwest Minnesota and part of Grand Forks County, North Dakota, each month. We provide good quality food and non-food products with the goal of meeting the basic needs and improving the nutritional well being of the people served by our agencies. Annually, North Country Food Bank distributes almost 2 million pounds of food to families, seniors and children in the following counties:

Becker	Beltrami	Clearwater
Douglas	Grand Forks, ND	Grant
Hubbard	Kittson	Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen	Marshall	Norman
Otter Tail	Pennington	Polk
Pope	Red Lake	Roseau
Stevens	Traverse	Wadena
Wilkin

THE NEED…

The amount of food distributed by North County Food Bank increases each year as the number of people coming to our hunger relief agencies continues to rise.

· Children make up approximately 42% of those served by North Country Food Bank’s member food shelves.

~Agency Statistics, North Country Food Bank, Inc.

· Two out of five seniors will fall below the poverty line (an annual individual income of $9,750 or less) between the ages of 60 and 90.

~Hunger and Food Insecurity Among the Elderly, Brandies University

· The working poor are the fastest growing group of food shelf clients. 38% of households using food shelves report the family’s major source of income is paid employment.

~The State of Hunger in Minnesota, Hunger Solutions Minnesota