2015 City of Tempe Diversity Award winner TCAA Food Pantry Volunteers

Maker City of Tempe Diversity Department

Date2015

MediumPaper

Dimensions8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact

Catalog number2015.19.1

DescriptionColor photograph of Community Group Diversity Award winner: TCAA Food Pantry Volunteers.
For nearly 50 years, TCAA (Tempe Community Action Agency) has worked in partnership with the City of Tempe to provide a variety of anti-poverty services supporting working poor families, children, seniors and the homeless. The Food Pantry, led by coordinator Kathy Estrada, exemplifies a commitment to diversity through its community volunteers and accessibility to community members in need of food resources. TCAA recruits and manages approximately 100 volunteers to support the Food Pantry from a variety of resources. Pantry volunteers may consist of ASU students, homeless clients from the I-HELP shelter in pursuit of gaining transferable workforce skills, retired residents giving back, disabled individuals, faith based congregation members and those needing to complete court ordered community service. This wide spectrum of the community works side by side sorting food donations, packaging food boxes and distributing food to the clients in need.

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