So much potential and experience here but a heavy ...

So much potential and experience here but a heavy focus on charity, few conversations about solidarity leaves it feeling wasted. Treats other regional anti-hunger groups that dont fit into their member agency model with suspicion and contempt. Good people working their hearts out inside a broken system. The place scrapes by despite a $39 million annual budget providing sub-living wages (but decent benefits) to staff while not having the spine to ask any of the places "donating" food to incurr a reduced tonnage processing fee to bolster the budget. Operations level staff are regularly subject to known unsafe working conditions. Finally, members of communities Foodlink intends to serve are not adequately represented on their board of directors, their board is comprised of people who have has $$$, relevant professional experience, or hold some form of office that can be leveraged the to benefit the agency. Poor and food insecure folks are not involved in decision making at Foodlink or within its programs. The only major exception to that is the Ambassador Program Curbside started last year. When Foodlink starts actively de-coupling from the nonprofit industrial complex model as opposed to using it as a talking point when convenient my review will be 5 stars.