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John bought an old milk delivery truck for $ 150 and used it to gather gleaned citrus fruit and other foods to bring to the soup kitchen. Every evening John would deliver any surplus to the homeless missions in downtown
Phoenix. Searching for an efficient, less time consuming method of distributing
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John expanded his food resources upon a discovery behind local grocery stores. A destitute mother of 10 well-fed children pointed out “a bank of food” from which she fed her family. Huge amounts of surplus food were being thrown out by grocery stores, food that was frozen but still edible, loose
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His odd jobs included driving a beer truck in
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since 2008). Guided by John, this organization established food banking standards and training as well as acquisition and distribution of food from large national manufacturers. Businesses were able to cut the costs of disposing unusable but edible food as well as taking tax breaks by helping
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in honor of the donation provided by St. Mary's
Basilica. In accordance to his vow of poverty, John took no salary during his first decade at St. Mary's. He wore secondhand clothes, got his food at the food bank and lived in a donated room above a garage.
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this food, John approached Father Ronald
Colloty from St. Mary's Basilica in regards to setting up a warehouse where the missions could come and pick up the food. The church responded by loaning John $ 3000 and an inherited bakery building near skid row.
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America's Second Harvest to establish Food Banking Inc. (which became International Food Bank Services in 1991 and is now known as Global FoodBanking Network). John served as a consultant to food banks around the world, traveling to
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In 1975 John accepted a $ 50,000 federal grant which would be utilized to establish 18 food banks across
America. In 1979 John established America's Second Harvest (now known as
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Within a year, in 1967, John had established the location at which all the food that grocery stores could not sell would be housed and distributed. He named it
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became partially paralyzed while breaking up a bar fight. He was sent to
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to oversee the start up of their food banks. John also helped establish food banks throughout Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, South
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vegetables, stale bread. Inside stores John found less perishable throwaways such as dented cans and leaky bags of rice and sugar.
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swimming pool and at the age of 44 became the oldest public lifeguard in
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fraternity. John then attended graduate school at University of Wisconsin but moved to
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2003 108th Congress Congressional Record Award for humanitarian work
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1972 National Center for Volunteer Action National Volunteer Award
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