Launched the San Antonio Food Bank's 'Get Connected' Digital Literacy program in cooperation with the San Antonio Public Library, Feeding Texas, and Google Fiber to provide access to - and training on - personal computers. 

This is just one of several programs that we're running at the Food Bank with the ultimate goal of using education and job skills training to unlock new employment opportunities for our neighbors. Nothing would make me happier than to see that these folks never need to use our emergency food services again (though we'll always be here for them if they do). 

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/san-antonio-food-bank-launching-new-digital-program-called-get-connected

Launched Freshtrak to allow our food bank clients to schedule curbside pickup of donated food. This provides our clients with a solution to receive the same food they would pick up at a "mega" distribution event but at the time and place of their choosing and in a manner much more similar to a curbside pickup from their local grocer.  

Launched OrderAhead in San Antonio to provide families-in-need with a convenient and private means to select from available products to build free "orders" of healthy food that best meets their personal dietary requirements and preferences. 

https://orderahead.org

Completed on-time delivery of critical IT infrastructure to support networking, physical security, HVAC automation, and multi-purpose AV systems in the newly constructed, 60,000 sq ft Mays Family Culinary Center. 

Completed an 8 week project to fully transition an annual, in-person conference to a 100% virtual event leveraging a Cvent-based solution. 

Nearly 300 participants engaged in a four-track conference which blended pre-recorded presentations, livestream sessions, and interactive panels to empower healthcare workers with information and tools to better identify and address food insecurity among their patients. 

Successfully implemented new DR/BCP processes as a disaster declaration was issued for all 254 counties in Texas due to severe winter weather that hit right as the first major wave of Covid-19 cases were beginning to hit our region. 

These processes enabled the Food Bank to continue supporting emergency food relief to over 90,000 individuals per week even during unprecedented inclement weather events, Covid-related precautionary staff displacement, and other operational challenges.