Alton, MO. – The Alton Senior Center recently received a capacity building grant thanks to Ozarks Food Harvest’s $1 million investment in agency infrastructure in southwest Missouri.
The grant funding will purchase awnings which will help sustain food capacity by providing covering to seniors while receiving and distributing food and feed families in Oregon County. The Alton Senior Center was one of more than 70 organizations chosen by Ozarks Food Harvest to receive an agency capacity grant to assist with hunger-relief efforts.
Ozarks Food Harvest is the Feeding America food bank for southwest Missouri, serving 270 charities across 28 counties. The capacity building investment is part of The Food Bank’s multi-faceted strategy to address needs identified in Missouri’s Food Assistance and Hunger in the Heartland 2021 report conducted by the MU Interdisciplinary Center for Food Security. The Food Bank reaches 50,000 individuals monthly and provides more than 20 million meals annually.
Learn more at OzarksFoodHarvest.org.
