Hunger Justice

Hunger Justice: Fair and Equitable Distribution

Hunger Justice ensures that more resources are available to everyone by distributing them fairly and equitably to those most in need within your community.

It is difficult to turn someone away, but pantries do not have unlimited supplies. Saying "no" becomes necessary only when clients are exploiting the system or visiting more frequently than your policy allows. Hunger Justice helps your pantry fairly provide services to more guests while proactively preventing waste, fraud, and abuse.

Internal Control: Adjustable Visit Limitations

This is accomplished through FoodBank Manager's powerful, built-in adjustable visit 

limitation script. These features allow you to control exactly how often a household can return for services. The limitation feature is applied separately to each distinct program, good, or service you offer.

FoodBank Manager helps your pantry prevent:

• Households being served more frequently than your policy allows in a given time period.

• Multiple people from the same household trying to receive services by registering as different households.

• Households receiving the same services from multiple pantries in your area.

  
  

External Control: The Free Associations Feature

Hunger Justice can be extended throughout your community using our free Associations feature. This allows you to safely link your goods, services, and programs with other local pantries that also use FoodBank Manager.

• You choose precisely which services to link to the association and which remain private to your pantry, creating a safe, secure, and private network.

• Unlike other shared database systems that share everything and compromise client privacy, FoodBank Manager's Associations feature gives you the benefit of a shared network with complete client privacy.

Example:

Suppose your pantry offers food (once per month) and utility bill assistance (once every six months).

1. Your food policy allows a client to receive food even if they got it from another pantry this month. You keep this service private.

2. You choose to link the utility bill assistance to the association.

3. FoodBank Manager will identify and flag if another pantry has already paid a client's electric bill, allowing you to decide how to handle the request and ensuring your limited utility funds are spent wisely.

This system gives you the control and privacy of a local database with the coordinated benefits of a wider network.