Hunger to Hope: 2008-2009 Connecticut Food Bank Annual Report is now available online and through the Food Bank’s main office.

Click here to view the report.

Each year, Connecticut Food Bank produces an annual report recognizing the thousands of individuals, families, civic groups, schools, religious organizations and companies that helped in the fight to alleviate hunger in our communities.

The latest report covers the fiscal year starting July 1, 2008, and ending June 30, 2009.

As articulated in the introduction and shown symbolically cover to cover, many people helped Connecticut Food Bank turn hunger into hope for hundreds of thousands of people in Connecticut. The generous gifts of food, funds and time enabled the Food Bank to feed men, women and children who might otherwise go without.

In this report, we tell the story of Connecticut Food Bank and our mission to alleviate hunger using:

• Contrasting concepts—such as Hunger and Hope; Struggle and Resolve; and Insecurity and Relief—to symbolize the opposing forces that Connecticut Food Bank faces in its everyday operations;
• The spoon to symbolize nourishment and the tool representing what Connecticut Food Bank offers to the community. In contrast to the spoon, the fork with the curled-up tines in the center pages of the annual report represents the stress and frustration people feel as they struggle with hunger;
• The egg as a symbol of life and nourishment.

Intermixed throughout the report are images of warehouse racks, boxes and cans—common items found at the Food Bank.

The annual report, printed by Harty Integrated Solutions, was printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled fiber. The company that made the paper, Mohawk Fine Papers, also purchased enough Green-e certified renewable energy certificates to match 100 percent of the electricity used in the company’s operations.

We want to thank Caserta Design Company for donating a great amount of time and design services for our 2008-2009 annual report. We depend on friends in the community like Caserta Design Company—and you—to turn hunger into hope for many of our neighbors in Connecticut.