About 21,900 different people in Food Bank for the Heartland's service area receive emergency food assistance in any given week.

The Food Bank distributed 10,000,000 pounds of food in 2011 --- a 10 percent increase from 2009.

Approximately 20 percent of children in Nebraska and western Iowa are at-risk for hunger.

Douglas County has the most children at-risk for hunger (26,970) followed by Sarpy County (7,600) in Nebraska.

Woodbury County has the most children at-risk for hunger (6,370) followed by Pottawattamie County (4,420) in Iowa.

15.9 percent of Nebraskans reported at least one time in the past 12 months when they did not have enough money to buy food that they or their family needed.

52 percent of clients served by Food Bank for the Heartland report having to choose between paying for food and utilities.

76 percent have incomes below the federal poverty line.

19 percent are homeless.

74 percent of pantries and 43 percent of shelters reported an increase in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites since 2006.