In Texas, he has served on the boards of the South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) and Holy Spirit Catholic Church Homeless and Hunger Ministry. He is also the past secretary for Feeding Florida and is currently on the board, while also serving on the board of the Emergency Food and Shelter Program with the United Way of Miami-Dade. Vélez was recently appointed to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service’s Living Healthy in Florida Advisory Board by Commissioner Adam Putnam. Vélez holds a Certification in Non-Profit Management from the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. To the Treasure Coast Food Bank for proposals, budgets, warehouse operations and program creation and innovation. Vélez’s responsibilities at the San Antonio Food Bank included oversight of six divisions responsible for all outreach programs and initiatives of the food bank.Īlso prior to joining Feeding South Florida, from 2010-2012, Vélez served as a consultant Prior to joining Feeding South Florida in April 2012, Vélez served as executive vice president of programs and initiatives from 2010-2012 and director of services from 2000-2010 at the San Antonio Food Bank in San Antonio, Texas, one of the leading food banks in the Feeding America network. Of the 40 Under 40 Class of 2013 for his accomplishments as CEO of Feeding South Florida. South Florida Business Journal named Vélez as Ultimate CEO of 2015, as well as a member He has increased funding and reduced expenses to ensure a healthy financial position for the organization, bringing it from seven figures in the red to seven figures in the black. Since his arrival in 2012, Vélez has increased the number of pounds of food distributed across Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties, from 29.6 million pounds in 2012 to 50 million pounds in 2018. ‘Dubai the City that Cares’ 2004 campaign will take place from October 14 to November 19.As President & CEO of Feeding South Florida, Francisco (“Paco”) Vélez is responsible for the overall administration, management, and leadership of the organization in pursuit of its mission, goals, and objectives. By simply sending an SMS to that particular number, your donations will be sent to help hungry children around the world. The ‘Join Me in helping hungry children’ programme attracted a large crowd to join a march in BurJuman, with programme representatives and spokespersons from ‘Dubai the City that Cares’ and World Food Programme joining the children in their cause to fight against hunger.Īdults and children came from Dubai Club for Special Sports and from government and private schools, marching along with shoppers, and everyone cooperated with one another, distributing T-shirts with the SMS number 2994. They were also encouraged to look deep inside and bring out their compassion and humanity, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, a time when the needy, discouraged, hungry, sick or disadvantaged should be helped. The programme, which was held within the activities of ‘Dubai the City that Cares,’ received tremendous response, and this week’s ‘Join us in helping hungry children’ was no different, drawing in crowds and giving a large number of the UAE residents the opportunity to become aware of the hunger problems children face in the world today. Last week, the ‘Join Me’ theme demonstrated a cause for children suffering from Thalassaemia. Joining the cause for more than 300 million hungry children around the world, and in collaboration with the World Food Programme, Dubai the City that Cares 2004, along with the Arabian Radio Network, organised the 2nd edition of ‘Join Me’ that filled up BurJuman Centre with hope and generosity, fighting against the starvation and malnourishment of children.
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