Causes: Community Service Clubs, Emergency Assistance, Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Human Service Organizations, Human Services

Mission: VISTO was created in the 1980’s by the Ministerial Alliance with the mission: “to help people get through times of crises and enable them to get back on their feet. ” This is still our mission today. The primary way that we respond to that mandate is through food. VISTO operates and maintains Cooke County’s emergency food bank.

Target demographics: the community and young children

Direct beneficiaries per year: 817 children each week through our Backpack Buddy program, feed over 15,116 individuals, distributed over 186,240 pounds of food, and received over 108,203 pounds of food donations

Geographic areas served: Cooke County

Programs: Program expenses include payments to or for clients for groceries, housing, utilities, and prescriptions and the cost of support services to administer those programs.

program expenses also include fmv of donated food which is distributed to clients.