In the News ... Food 2 Kids' new director to oversee growing program"

• When asked about the nonprofit’s needs, his response is simple: money and volunteers

Staff Report
Midland Reporter-Telegram

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ODESSA/MIDLAND, TEXAS - In 2010, the Education Foundation of Odessa partnered with the Odessa Junior League and the West Texas Food Bank to provide a sack of food items to be sent home in the backpacks of food-insecure children in Odessa. Food 2 Kids started out feeding 150 elementary school kids. That number doubled in 12 weeks and by the next year the group was providing sacks of food for 1,200 students.

Now the program has expanded into 17 schools in Odessa, and a handful in Midland and the surrounding areas — feeding more than 2,300 kids. The board-run nonprofit that is supported by the food bank has hired its first paid staff member. Odessa native and former Food 2 Kids board member Craig Stoker took over in March as the first director of Food 2 Kids ...

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