Care and Share
OPTM 3000-001
Project Report Part 1
Introduction
Care and Share is a nonprofit food bank that is a member of Feeding America, which is a large network of food banks across the Nation. Feeding America gets large donations from their partners such as Kellogg’s Cereal or Nestle, which food banks can purchase based on points. These points are attributed to how many people they serve and how well they comply with the standards of Feeding America. Care and Share processes donations of food and distributes to pantries in the southern region of Colorado, acting as the hub. Care and Share has two facilities one in Colorado Springs which is the 50,000 square feet and one in Pueblo that is 17,000 square feet. In 2009 they built the facility in Colorado Springs to allow more inventory, especially in the refrigeration and freezer capacity.
Historical Background Care and Share was founded more than 35 years ago, in 1974, as a referral agency to coordinate food distribution. They continued to expand from the Pike’s Peak Region into the Southern Region of Colorado. As they expanded to become focused on distribution of food to counties rather than advocacy, they started by leasing smaller facilities but out grew them. Then the organization had to turn away food donations. In 2009 they built a facility that has a taller ceiling, so they can have more shelves and pallets on top of each other, rather than spread out. This also allows the organization of the facility to run more smoothly and efficiently by reducing the number of rows required to store the same volume of inventory. As technology has changed over the years so has their ordering system. They now use Choice System to bid on food donations and for orders from their organizations.
Care and Share suffered from a wastage problem. They had three large dumpsters that were emptied daily. They have reduced their waste significantly only requiring 1 dumpster that is emptied twice a week. Their waste is 0.26% which
Project Report Part 1
Introduction
Care and Share is a nonprofit food bank that is a member of Feeding America, which is a large network of food banks across the Nation. Feeding America gets large donations from their partners such as Kellogg’s Cereal or Nestle, which food banks can purchase based on points. These points are attributed to how many people they serve and how well they comply with the standards of Feeding America. Care and Share processes donations of food and distributes to pantries in the southern region of Colorado, acting as the hub. Care and Share has two facilities one in Colorado Springs which is the 50,000 square feet and one in Pueblo that is 17,000 square feet. In 2009 they built the facility in Colorado Springs to allow more inventory, especially in the refrigeration and freezer capacity.
Historical Background Care and Share was founded more than 35 years ago, in 1974, as a referral agency to coordinate food distribution. They continued to expand from the Pike’s Peak Region into the Southern Region of Colorado. As they expanded to become focused on distribution of food to counties rather than advocacy, they started by leasing smaller facilities but out grew them. Then the organization had to turn away food donations. In 2009 they built a facility that has a taller ceiling, so they can have more shelves and pallets on top of each other, rather than spread out. This also allows the organization of the facility to run more smoothly and efficiently by reducing the number of rows required to store the same volume of inventory. As technology has changed over the years so has their ordering system. They now use Choice System to bid on food donations and for orders from their organizations.
Care and Share suffered from a wastage problem. They had three large dumpsters that were emptied daily. They have reduced their waste significantly only requiring 1 dumpster that is emptied twice a week. Their waste is 0.26% which