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ANNUAL REPORT
The power of food, because of YOU
FI S C A L Y E A R M A R C H 1, 2017 - FE B R UA R Y 28, 2018
CONTENTS
4 From the CEO: Hope is powerful
20 Financial summary
21 Our leadership
30 Better together
ON THE COVER
FMSC food in action in Nicaragua. Photo by Katie Koranda.
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HOP E
Miracles happened because of your
incredible generosity this year! Hope
grew stronger, too. More than 333
MILLION FMSC meals were packed
by more than 1.2 million volunteers
like you. That means 913,555 hungry
kids were fed each day for a year across
the globe, including in some of the
hardest-to-reach places like Iraq, Syria,
Afghanistan and Myanmar.
PHILIPPINES
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I S PO WERFUL.
Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. hungry child around the world. We will
remain purposeful to seek out the most
This is not luck or coincidence. This is God
effective, sustainable strategies to reach
working miracles through your hands!
every person with nutritious food and
This year solidified how crucial it is to the love of Jesus.
have strong relationships across FMSC.
With this in mind, FMSC is expanding into
Deep relationships with you, our food
Dallas-Fort Worth! We signed a lease and
partners and the Lord are essential.
look forward to this new site catapulting
These relationships enable us to respond
our ability to produce more meals and reach
quickly and effectively when crisis strikes.
those not yet reached.
Relationships are the key to ending
starvation. Hope simply doesn’t happen without
you. There is power in the gift of food
As we plan for and pray over what God
through your hands – it brings hope in
has planned for us in 2018/2019, we’re
Jesus’ name. Hope for the future. Hope
hanging onto the dream He gave us:
for growth. Hope for healing. Thank
to end starvation. It’s going to take all
you for standing with us until all are fed!
of us working together to reach every
In faith,
Mark Crea
Executive Director/CEO
“ L E T U S H O L D U N S W E R V I N G LY T O T H E H O P E W E P R O FE S S, F O R H E W H O
P R O M I S E D I S FA I T H FU L .” – H E B R E W S 10:23
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WHO
WE
ARE
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FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN
is a Christian nonprofit DEDICATED
to seeing EVERY CHILD and
PERSON around the world healthy,
nourished and WHOLE in BODY
and SPIRIT.
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UGANDA
Our
heartache
Every year, millions of children die from
preventable causes such as pneumonia,
diarrhea, malaria and undernutrition.
Today, hunger still causes nearly half
of deaths in children under 5 years
old.* From this data, FMSC estimates at
least 6,200 children die each day from
undernutrition.
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Our answer:
MannaPack™ meals
Specifically designed to assist in preventing and reversing undernutrition, FMSC MannaPack
meals provide nutrients a child needs to gain strength and health.
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YO U
F UE L FMSC
The process is simple. Your generosity, your
time and your prayers keep FMSC meals
heading out the door to the least of these.
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1
You donate
You fund the meal ingredients and keep making
food. Hungry children rely on your generosity. Meal
ingredients are not donated to FMSC and we do not
receive any government aid.
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You pack
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You hand-pack every FMSC meal at our permanent sites and
MobilePack™ events across the U.S.
You send
Your time in the packing room and faithful giving
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sends FMSC meals to our exceptional network of
partners who ensure the meals are distributed every
day to those who need them most.
You pray
Your prayers are powerful! This year FMSC celebrated
more than two billion meals shipped in our history!
Of those meals, more than 99 percent have safely
reached their intended destination. God hears and
answers your prayers.
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You make the difference
Your hands are the last to touch the food
before it reaches hungry kids around the
world. Your hands turn hunger into hope.
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Your inspiring love saved baby
Judeson
Baby Judeson’s mother knocked on our food Sandra asked the doctors to feed
partner Sandra’s gate in Haiti, looking for MannaPack Potato-W meals to Judeson.
someone to help save her baby. After days of medical treatment and FMSC
meals, he grew stronger!
“I looked at the child and saw death in his
face,” said Sandra. Both Judeson and his mother began eating
nutritious FMSC meals consistently. Their
The 8 month old weighed only four pounds.
health soared. Six months later, Judeson
Severely undernourished, Judeson’s eyes
was walking!
were sunken. His skin was shrinking around
his bones. They rushed him to a hospital. Your deep love saves precious ones like
Doctors said he had just hours to live. Judeson.
F O R YO U, L O R D, H AV E D E L I V E R E D M E FR O M D E AT H,
M Y E Y E S FR O M T E A R S, M Y FE E T FR O M S T U M B L I N G…
– P S A L M 116:8
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HAITI
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YEAR IN REVIEW
1.2+ MILLION
VOLUNTEERS
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913,555 20+ MILLION
CHILDR E N F E D E V E RY DAY M E AL S FO R R E F U G EES
M O N T H LY S U S TA I N E R S F E D M O R E T H AN
22 CENTS
CO S T O F ONE MEAL
26,800
children daily for a year!
(seventh straight
year with
no increase)
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GOD’S CONSTANT
FAITHFULNESS
Year-after-year God shows His unending faithfulness
to Feed My Starving Children. Ever since FMSC was
rededicated to the Lord 15 years ago, we’ve seen God’s
provision and deep love for His kids around the world
through your hands and amazing miracles. We’ve
watched Him care for our food partners and those they
serve by ensuring that more than 99 percent of FMSC
meals have made it to their destinations.
SI N C E 2 0 0 3 YO U H AV E F U N DE D A N D PAC K E D
MO RE T H A N 2 B I L L I O N M E A L S .
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Meals produced annually
365+ MILLION
MEALS
(Budget plan)
3.4 MILLION
MEALS
Rededication
to Christ
1994 2003
Committed stewardship
FMSC commits to steward every resource God gives us to feed more kids. We seek the Lord in every
decision. Your hands pack every meal, which allows us to be extraordinarily efficient and send more
than 90 percent of your donations straight to feeding kids. By God’s grace, FMSC has maintained the
highest four-star rating from Charity Navigator for 13 consecutive years.
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Feed My Starving Children®
Financial summary
F O R T H E F I S C A L Y EA R EN D I N G F EBR UA R Y 28, 2 0 1 8 . (The following numbers are expressed in thousands.)
Functional expenses:
Meal packaging $60,279 $60,279
Administrative $2,757 $2,757
Fundraising $3,371 $3,371
Total expenses $66,407 $66,407
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Our leadership
(A S O F MA R C H 1 , 2 0 1 8)
Executive staff
ANDY CARR
MARK CREA LAURA BERNARD
Vice President of
Executive Vice President of
Development & Marketing
Director/CEO Manufacturing
M AT T M U R A S K I JEANIE PICARDI DA N S T E N N E S -
Vice President of Vice President of ROGNESS
International Human Resources Vice President of Finance/CFO
Programs & Supply Chain
Front Left to Right: P. Hanson, S. McCutcheon, D. Bandusky, J. Wyatt, J. Boldenow, R. Reisgraf Middle Left to Right: C. Wesser, R. Renstrom, M. Crea, B. Adams, G. Tygesson
Back Left to Right: K. Kelliher, B. Gorter, D. Nadasdy, D. Stark
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Hope around the world
In fiscal year 2017/18, with your help, FMSC shipped nearly 323 million meals to 89 partners in 68
countries. These amazing partners echoed your giving heart and shared these precious meals with many
other smaller organizations and ministries, so the meals could reach even farther to feed more.
Through your devoted kindness to those in need, these countries received the most meals this past year:
HAITI 2
95,637,024 meals
NIC ARAGUA
34,281,792 meals
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G U AT E M A L A
16,691,616 meals
E L S A LV A D O R
20,406,816 meals
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28+ MILLION
M EAL S S HIPPED IN RE S PO NS E
to n atu ral di s as te rs arou n d
th e worl d l i ke Hu rri c an e s Irm a
an d M ari a.
“ I WA S R E A L LY G R AT E F U L B E C A U S E I H A D T H E
F O O D I N E E D E D F O R M Y S O N ,” S A I D L I X M E L I .
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Your uplifting
generosity
across the US
Thank you for hosting MobilePack events at your
businesses, schools, churches and event centers
across the country in 2017. Your hard work through
these powerful meal packing experiences produced
74 million lifesaving meals!
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298
M O B I L E PAC K ™ E V E N T S
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S TAT E S
74
MILLION MEALS
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2,325
ART IS ANS S UPPORT E D BY YO U
5+ MILLION
MEALS PROVI D ED BY YO U R
MARKETPL ACE PU RCH ASES
Empowering communities,
one artisan at a time
FMSC’s international MarketPlace supports self-sufficiency and
sustainability. For a fair wage, handmade goods are purchased from
hardworking artisans in communities receiving FMSC meals. Items
are then sold in our MarketPlace at FMSC packing sites, MobilePack
events and online. Your MarketPlace purchases build communities
and fund more meals for starving kids.
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[ T H I S I S ] T H E G R E AT E S T T H I N G T H AT E V E R
H A P P E N E D T O M E . I A M A B L E T O PAY S C H O O L
FE E S F O R M Y S O N A N D FE E D H I M . G O D H A S
PROTECTED ME AND I GIVE ALL THE PRAISES
TO HIM.
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Hope is a Kids
team effort feeding kids
THANK YOU! Your ongoing fundraising efforts make a Through an amazing partnership between FMSC and
powerful difference across the globe, allowing our food the Gadgets & Gizmos Vacation Bible School program,
partners to focus on sustainability. Your dedication to kids from all across the country learned they could shine
FMSC provides the simple – yet powerful – foundation a light on hunger and raised money to feed kids just like
of food. them around the world!
The following are examples of organizations and After the summer was over, the kids had funded
individuals that are incredibly committed to FMSC and 255,000 meals to feed 700 children a meal each day
have supported us faithfully for many years. for an entire year!
Aspen Interiors
Homerun Inn
Erica Mote–Sweet Charity Fudge
Pastor Moe Redding–Light Of Christ
Golf Tournament
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The power
of teamwork!
Sports teams across the country are taking notice of Feed My Starving Children and want to get involved.
A generous FMSC donor arranged In September the Minnesota Twins The Windy City Bulls held an FMSC
the Scoops and Hoops MobilePack teamed up with FMSC to pack more MobilePack during their Windy City
event in partnership with the than 760,000 meals with the help of Bulls Faith Night event in January
Phoenix Mercury and Phoenix Suns nearly 3,000 volunteers at Pack at 2018.
as a way for foster families to have a the Park MobilePack. Thank you to
“Partnering with FMSC to host a
fun day serving together and attend Fox Sports North and the Minnesota
packing event as part of one of
the Mercury game that evening. Twins and to all of our amazing
our professional basketball games
Three hundred families showed up sponsors for making this possible
provided a great experience for
to pack 189,216 meals! – and feeding more than 2,000
everyone involved. Beyond the
children every day for a year!
Each child learned they are unique setting with the packing
important and they have the power event positioned near our court
to make a difference. After the during the game, the entire
event, a volunteer distributed extra planning and execution process
Mercury tickets and food vouchers was seamless thanks to FMSC’s
to the homeless around the Talking leadership team. We are excited to
Stick Resort arena. grow this event and provide FMSC
additional exposure with our fan
“I can’t help but think that
base in the future.” – Brad Seymour,
something like that was all part of
President of the Windy City Bulls
God’s plan for the event,” said FMSC
Development Advisor Jessica Knopf.
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Better together,
body & spirit
God has called each of us to this work. We all have different
roles, but we are a part of one body. Each of us is a link
in the chain of hands that pack, ship and distribute FMSC
food where it is needed most.
“ B E C AU S E O F T H E P E O P L E W E PA R T N E R W I T H
( YO U!), O U R F O O D I S A B L E T O R E AC H T H O S E N O
O N E E L S E C A N R E AC H.” – M A R K C R E A , F M S C C E O
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“A S I R O N S H A R P E N S
S H A R P E N S A N O T H E R .”
– P R O V E R B S 27:17
Connect with
FMSC in a
deeper way.
In addition to giving directly to Feed My
Starving Children, there are other simple,
benevolent ways to share your compassion
and support FMSC.
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Provide Hope for Tomorrow
Choose to feed children through your legacy giving. By making
FMSC a beneficiary of your will, estate plan or life insurance
policy, you can provide long-lasting Hope for Tomorrow.
fmsc.org/plannedgiving
fmsc.org/hopesustainer
fmsc.org/hopechampions
No matter how you choose to give, we work hard to ensure 90 percent of all donations goes
straight to feeding kids! We wouldn’t want it any other way.
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NIC ARAGUA
Joined Hands:
Powerful
beginnings
This year FMSC piloted the Joined Hands
program with the MannaPack 3-Pack meal
formula in Nicaragua in an effort to reduce
hunger, support local farmers and stimulate
the economy in communities experiencing
extreme poverty.
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HOW I T W O R KS
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Packing starts in the US
Volunteers pack the vitamins, veggies and soy in the
United States.
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Food is shipped to Nicaragua
Generous food partners pay for the shipping and clear
the meals through customs.
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Local rice is added in-country
Nicaraguan volunteers add locally grown rice to
complete the meals, which are then served in FMSC
partner Fabretto’s school feeding programs.
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PL ANNING FOR A POWERFUL FUTURE
Taking leaps of faith
I N MA R K ’S WOR D S
This was our biggest year ever! God surprised us by 4. Expand into Texas. With a goal to produce 365
surpassing our wildest dreams and enabling us to million meals this year – one million meals per day –
produce 50 million MORE meals than last year. This FMSC has signed a lease in Dallas-Fort Worth! I think
is simply remarkable. I believe this time next year we we will be amazed to see what comes out of there.
will surprised again by all God has done for us and
His kids around the world. WE ’ RE G O OD… B U T NOT T HAT G O OD !
We have an incredible team at FMSC and a remarkable
O UR GOA LS FOR TH E U PCOMING YEAR network of food distribution partners. But without
1. Keep Christ at the center. He sets the example God’s guidance, provision and protection, we
for us to follow. This continues to be the best and wouldn’t be where we are today.
only way for FMSC to accomplish God’s call to feed
Our partners tell us, ‘Food opens the door’ to share
His hungry kids across the globe.
the love of Jesus and help those they couldn’t reach
2. Grow our network of partner ministries. We will before. Every bag of food matters. Take one bag
listen to the Lord and allow Him to lead us toward of food away from a mom with a starving child or
the right partners and those who need the food remove one bag of food from a school and it means
the most, especially in the most difficult areas of six children won’t get to eat. Every MannaPack bag
the world. is vital.
3. Deepen relationships with our existing food God is the One Who expands. God extends our
partners, amazing donors, volunteers and our reach. God always surprises us. He always makes
staff members, as well as engage new audiences more possible than last year, and always in a way we
and build new relationships so we can become couldn’t have imagined at the start of the year. All the
stronger, more relevant and stay passionately on- honor goes to Him.
mission together.
“ F O R T H E K I N G D O M O F G O D I S N O T A M AT T E R O F TA L K B U T O F P O W E R .”
– 1 CO R I N T H I A N S 4:20
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YO U R P O W E R FU L AC T I O N S T H I S Y E A R S AV E D
L I V E S A N D B R O U G H T I N V I G O R AT I N G H O P E T O
S O M A N Y A R O U N D T H E W O R L D. W E C A N ’ T WA I T
T O S E E W H AT YO U ’ R E G O I N G T O D O N E X T Y E A R !
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