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Organization responds to growing demand
For the past 27 years, the Montgomery County Food Bank has served the community by providing meals to thousands of families. What started as a garage-based operation feeding 300 people per month has grown to serve hundreds of thousands per year.
It acts as a mothership for 51 service organizations throughout Montgomery County by providing them food. In Magnolia, MCFB supplies to St. Matthias Catholic Church and the Society of Samaritans.
"We function literally like a bank," said Sean-Michael Hazuda, president and CEO of MCFB. "Through our national and state partnerships, we are able to get much cheaper prices on food."
Scott Wall, president of SOS in Magnolia, said through the organization's partnership with MCFB it can purchase food from the food bank at much cheaper prices than what is offered at local grocery stores.
