CEO Insights: Susan King of Feeding Northeast Florida
2022 was an eventful year for the Jacksonville area, with First Coast companies expanding, new businesses moving here and national and local issues bringing a host of challenges and opportunities. As the year winds down, the Business Journal is speaking with CEOs across the First Coast about the issues they dealt with in 2022 and their outlook on what 2023 will bring.
We've seen about a 25% increase in demand over the highs from poverty, and we work through 325 plus agencies and programs all over the eight counties. And so, while we are not the boots on the ground for all of the food distribution, all the $32 million that we distribute, we do work very closely with our agencies and partners. We really have a pretty good sense of what they are seeing. And that's what they're reporting to us now.
And the USDA competes in the market for truckloads of food, and often things that we've ordered through the USDA program will get canceled because someone else has overbid on a truckloadSo optimizing our routes and our and our pickups is really one way that we're looking at combating some of the pressures will feel.Trying to meet the increased and sustained demand is probably our biggest challenge.
As a nonprofit organization, we are supported by the community. I mean, we write lots of grants and things, but. I'm always out there talking about it and our organization is always out there talking about, you know, we want to educate people for what's going on.
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