Brighter Bites Austin Hits One Million Pounds!

The Brighter Bites Austin team is proud to announce a remarkable milestone: since summer 2015, Brighter Bites has distributed more than 1 million pounds of produce to over 3,500 Austin families! The Austin team, made of up Program Director, Maggie Whittington, Program Coordinators Bethany Dawsonand Ellen Orabone and Program Associates Eliza Weeks, Katherine Patchak, and Christina JeanBaptiste, are grateful for the tremendous help they have received from parent and community volunteers, leadership, faculty, and staff at all Brighter Bites schools and camps in reaching this goal.

This moment cannot pass without a shout out to the incredible partners we work with every day at the Central Texas Food Bank. The staff members, pictured below, provide tremendous support to Brighter Bites by sourcing and providing donated produce to our program, storing that produce in the food bank’s warehouse, and delivering it to our sites.

“I love what Brighter Bites is doing and the way that our missions complement one another,” Bethany Carney, Food Source Manager at the food bank, told the Byte recently. Mike Wooten, the food bank’s Warehouse Manager says, “Contributing to Brighter Bites has been very rewarding.”

This wonderful group of individuals is committed to our success and we are grateful to them everyday. Thanks also goes to PureFlavor, Potandon Produce, and Church Brothers Farms for their generous donations of fruits and vegetables, FreshPoint South Texas for organizing those donations, and to everyone else who has donated to Brighter Bites with their time or otherwise. We could not have reached this goal without you.