Michael Truitt – Director of Community Partnerships and Programs
mtruitt@freestorefoodbank.org
513-482-4525
Jessie Fossenkemper – Community Partnership Manager – Ohio Emergency Food Pantries and Soup Kitchens
jfossenkemper@freestorefoodbank.org
513-482-4527
Sergio Mata – Community Partnership Manager – Ohio Non-Emergency Agencies and Spanish Outreach
smata@freestorefoodbank.org
513-357-4810
Amy Heyd – Community Partnership Manager – Kentucky and Indiana Agencies
aheyd@freestorefoodbank.org
513-482-4538
General Contact Information: Help Desk
help@freestorefoodbank.org
Become an agency partner
If you would like to become an agency partner, please fill out these forms and send them to one of the Community Partnership Managers. They will contact you with next steps.
Compliance
Operations
- Capacity Grants
- Hunger Walk
- Food Drives
There are 2 different ways that partners can get produce into their communities! As an effort to provide healthier options, produce is free to our agency network! For more information click here:
- Produce Popups
- PUSH Produce
- As an agency participating in the PUSH Produce program you will automatically have produce added to your order. Each time you have an order placed online, the produce manager compares what you list on the allocation sheet to what is in stock and adds to your order. If you would like to participate in the program please send the following sheet to your Community Partnership Manager:
Ohio has more than enough food to feed everyone. Our Direct Retail Pickup program (DRP) ensures that food otherwise wasted reaches our neighbors in need. For more information, click here:
Below is a list of social services we can bring to your agency with specialized Freestore Foodbank staff members. For more information click here:
- All USDA Programs: “Justice For All Poster”
- Affordable Line Services (Translation Services)
- Civil Rights Training Check-list
- Rights to Refuse Services Policy
- USDA Non-Discrimination Statement
- Discrimination Complaint Form
- Written Notice of Non-Discrimination for Faith-base Organizations – TEFAP
- Written Notice of Non-Discrimination for Faith-base Organizations – CSFP
- ISpeakCards2004
- Civil Rights Training slideshow
- Civil Rights Training Powerpoint
- Civil Rights training sign in sheet
- Civil Rights initial forms
CSFP boxes are designed to meet the nutritional needs of seniors. In addition to nutritious food, boxes contain nutritional education and have important resource information for seniors.
TEFAP is a government funded program that provides Foodbanks with product that should be passed on to partners at limited / no cost. There are 3 types of TEFAP products. Freestore tries to limit the SMF as much as possible on all TEFAP products.
- Ohio
- TEFAP – Chinese
- TEFAP – English
- TEFAP – Russian
- TEFAP – Somali
- TEFAP – Spanish
- TEFAP – Turkish
- TEFAP Guidelines – Chinese
- TEFAP Guidelines – English
- TEFAP Guidelines – Russian
- TEFAP Guidelines – Somali
- TEFAP Guidelines – Spanish
- TEFAP Guidelines – Turkish
- TEFAP Agreement FY2020
- Discrimination Complaint Form
- Letter of Proxy Example
- TEFAP Manual
- Kentucky
- Coming soon
- Indiana
- Coming soon