Board & Staff

29% of households served in Kentucky had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care.

34% of households served in Kentucky had to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel.

Demand for emergency food assistance in Kentucky has increased 84% since 2006.

Last year we distributed 50.9 million pounds of food and grocery products.

We reach 1 in 7 Kentuckians each year.

Our mission is to provide food and quality services to increase the capacity of Kentucky’s Feeding America food banks to end hunger.

Our vision is a hunger-free Kentucky.

One in four of Kentucky’s children lack consistent access to an adequate diet.

Over 700,000 Kentuckians do not always know where their next meal will come from.

Board of Directors

KAFB is guided by a board of directors comprised of representatives of each of the 7 member food banks. They have over three decades of combined experience providing leadership to secure and distribute food to feed struggling Kentuckians, including program management, fiscal oversight, fundraising and advocacy efforts. The board meets bi-monthly to review financial reports, programmatic reports and discuss progress made toward strategic plan goals.

Marian Guinn (Chair), CEO of God’s Pantry Food Bank

Don Fulford (Vice-Chair), Executive Director of Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland

Brian Riendeau (Secretary/Treasurer), Executive Director of Dare to Care Food Bank

Clay Black, Coordinator of Commodities and Food Bank Programs, Purchase Area Development District

John Hillenbrand, Assistant Director of Tri-State Food Bank

Kurt Reiber, President & CEO of Freestore Foodbank

Tiffany Tatum, Interim Executive Director of Huntington Area Food Bank

Staff

Tamara Sandberg has served as executive director since March 2011. Tamara has been volunteering at food pantries and soup kitchens since high school and believes it is unacceptable for any of our struggling neighbors to lack enough healthy food to eat…especially our children and senior citizens. She’s thrilled to be pursuing her passion to end hunger as her full-time job with the Kentucky Association of Food Banks. Tamara brings 20 years of experience in the nonprofit realm and has a master’s of science degree in Family and Consumer Sciences from the University of Wyoming.