FTF began in 1992, with a needs assessment on hunger was conducted in the Richmond area with the Department of Social Services.

The results where that the needs of low-income Richmond area residents were not being met with the same vigilance as the homeless and unemployed.

The Working Poor were falling through the cracks of our community.

The volume of people needing food assistance relates to the escalating cost of housing, medical insurance, and child care. It is organizations like FTF that keep millions of Americans from conditions of serious hunger.

Hundreds of organizations like FTF in America have become ground zero in our nation s struggle to feed and empower millions of hungry people who live among us today.

FTF act as a support unit, which intercepts these people before they are forced to seek help from already overloaded government programs, or assists those who are still at poverty level but do not qualify for aid.

At the present time FTF works with many Richmond area agencies by accepting referral s from the Department of Social Services, Department of Mental Health, Women & Infant Care, United Way, Red Cross, Capitol Area Agency on Aging, Refugee an Immigration Services, and many more.