A History of the CAPK Food Bank

Doors opened at the original Food Bank location--a former train depot in Downtown Bakersfield on Truxtun Avenue. Successful fundraising brought on new cold storage space to increase capacity of fresh and frozen goods.

A 20,000 cubic feet walk-in refrigeration unit was installed. Solar panels were installed to counter the $50,000 increase in utility costs due to the newly installed cold storage units.

A 20,000 sq. ft. warehouse and office space was built and became the new Food Bank location.

Significant increase in warehouse storage racks for dry good storage.

A 20,250 cubic feet walk-in freezer was installed. Along with the previous refrigeration installation, its total cold storage tripled. CAPK began the planning process of the Food Bank

expansion.

2020 Food2Door program began, increasing the need for warehouse space again. A second warehouse was leased to encompass the storage and packing needs of the large program. Additional warehouse space was leased to encompass the storage and packing needs of the program.

TOTAL POUNDS DISTRIBUTED ANNUALLY

2017 2018 2019 2020

0 12,400,000 13,600,000

20,400,000

5,000,000 10,000,000 15,000,000 20,000,000 25,000,000 30,000,000 2,500,000 7,500,000 12,500,000 17,500,000 22,500,000 27,500,000 32,500,000 33,000,000