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Donations to food bank flat as needs climb IFCS is scaling back offerings in face of influx of hungry people BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The shelves are starting to look a little thin at one of the south metro area’s biggest food banks. Donations are flat at Integrated Family Community Services — formerly called Interfaith — while the numbers of people who need help just keep climbing, said outreach director Todd McPherson. “We’re in real financial turmoil,” McPherson said. “We’re getting too poor to serve the poor.” The agency has traditionally offered a wide range of services to lowincome locals, including bus passes, gasoline vouchers, help paying for medications and hearing aids, and utility bill assistance, but McPherson said the agency is scaling back or eliminating many of those programs to focus on core functions like making sure people stay fed. While the agency’s budget has stayed flat at about $700,000 a year over the last decade, the number of people coming in for help has been
Allison Taggart, the program director at Integrated Family Community Services, surveys sparse shelves at the group’s food bank. Donations to the group are flat, Taggart said, but the number of people needing food assistance just keeps growing, forcing IFCS to scale back the services it offers.
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