{"id":22622,"date":"2021-01-19T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2024-11-06T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:27:03","slug":"meeting-a-rising-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/2021\/01\/19\/meeting-a-rising-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting a Rising Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image=&#8221;22862&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;150px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611068653718{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: rgba(24,41,87,0.8) !important;*background-color: rgb(24,41,87) !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Meeting a Rising Need<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;150px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#7eb1dc&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"rev-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Foodlink\u2019s Mitch Gruber \u201917 (PhD) oversees \u201cregular, consistent, and touchless distribution of food\u201d throughout the pandemic.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;25px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22982\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22982\" class=\"wp-image-22982 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mitch-Gruber.png\" alt=\"Mitch Gruber\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mitch-Gruber.png 200w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mitch-Gruber-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mitch-Gruber-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mitch Gruber<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When schools and day cares closed in New York state last March, it meant that thousands of children in the Rochester region\u2014including in the city, where the child poverty rate is above 50 percent\u2014lost access to federally subsidized breakfast and lunch. Foodlink, the regional food bank serving a 10-county region that includes Rochester, dedicated itself to stepping in and ensuring that all children in need were fed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As chief partnerships officer, Mitch Gruber says his job has been to oversee \u201cregular, consistent, and touchless distribution of food\u201d during the pandemic. He worked with school districts, recreation centers, YMCAs\u2014\u201cany organization that serves kids in our community,\u201d he says\u2014to meet that challenge. From March through June, those collaborations enabled Foodlink to distribute more than 260,000 grab-and-go meals to Rochester children.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the summer, Gruber worked with the City of Rochester and the Regional Transit Service to deliver roughly 44,000 meals \u201cice cream truck style\u201d in neighborhoods throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Elected to the Rochester City Council in 2017, Gruber says that role has taught him the inner workings of local government, something that has served him well in his role at Foodlink. Tremendous challenges lie ahead, however, and Gruber, who was named this year to <em>Rochester Business Journal<\/em>\u2019s Forty under 40, isn\u2019t sanguine. Job losses and the lack of federal assistance since the summer have taken a toll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Without renewed federal stimulus, he says, \u201cwe\u2019re going to struggle to meet the rising need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in the fall 2020 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/pr\/Review\/\">Rochester Review<\/a> magazine.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;25px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;22902&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; mkd_css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611350221097{padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611349486684{border-top-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;border-top-color: #999999 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong>\u2014 Interview by Karen McCally \u201902 (PhD)<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;25px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When schools and day cares closed in New York state last March, it meant that thousands of children in the Rochester region\u2014including in the city, where the child poverty rate is above 50 percent\u2014lost access to federally subsidized breakfast and lunch. 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