About

Our Work

Feeding Pennsylvania is the statewide association of nine Feeding America affiliated food banks. The mission of Feeding Pennsylvania is to promote and aid our member food banks in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity across the state and to provide a shared voice on the issues of hunger and food access within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Distributing Food Throughout Pennsylvania

Our member food banks span across all 67 counties and serve nearly 2 million people annually by distributing more than 164 million pounds of food throughout Pennsylvania to more than 2,700 agencies and feeding programs. In 2018, our collective workforce included over 400 employees, who hosted more than 43,000 volunteers and facilitated more than 423,000 volunteer hours. Through volunteer efforts and strong community relationships, we spread awareness of food insecurity and hunger in our state.

Bridging the Gap

Feeding Pennsylvania can bridge the gap from local efforts to statewide assistance. We have the logistical and infrastructural capacity to handle the challenges of hunger relief in Pennsylvania. Our combined facility size of more than 410,000 square feet and fleet of more than 70 trucks allows us to respond efficiently, in a collective capacity that exceeds that of individual agencies.

A Voice for Hunger Relief

Feeding Pennsylvania is a strong voice for hunger relief across the state. We advocate for federal and state policies, programs, and initiatives to strengthen food access and hunger relief programs both in Pennsylvania and across the nation.

Hunger Relief Experience and Knowledge

Our members offer a wealth of experience in and knowledge about hunger relief. Feeding Pennsylvania fosters the exchange of ideas and information among these members to create innovative strategies and best practice guidelines for solving the problem of hunger in Pennsylvania.

Hunger In Pennsylvania

Though many of us may not realize the grave disparities that exist in our own communities, people struggle with hunger in every county and congressional district in Pennsylvania. They could be our neighbors, kids in our children’s classes – the possibilities go on.

What Hunger Looks Like in Pennsylvania

* Data from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap 2020 study. Learn More >

In Pennsylvania, nearly 2 million people are struggling with hunger - and of them 500,000 are children.
The average cost of a meal in Pennsylvania is $3.11.

The charitable food network has seen an unprecedented rise in need amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn. Learn more about COVID-19 and the impact it’s had on the charitable food network.

Our Members

Our member food banks span across all 67 counties and serve nearly 2 million people annually by distributing more than 164 million pounds of food throughout Pennsylvania to more than 2,700 agencies and feeding programs. To locate a food bank and to see which counties each food bank serves, please see below:

Board of Directors

Lisa Scales
- Board Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Jay Worrall
- Board Vice Chair
President, Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Karen Seggi
- Board Treasurer
Executive Director, Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania
Jennifer Miller
- Board Secretary
Chief Executive Officer, Westmoreland Food Bank
Joseph Arthur
- Board Member
Executive Director, Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
Rebecca Page
- Board Member
Executive Director, Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County
Allison Czapp
- Board Member
Associate Executive Director, Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania
Loree D. Jones
- Board Member
Executive Director, Philabundance

Our Team

Jane Clements
Chief Executive Officer
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Jane Clements
Chief Executive Officer

Jane Clements is the Chief Executive Officer at Feeding Pennsylvania. She was appointed Executive Director in June of 2015. Serving as a statewide voice on hunger issues, Jane spends her time advocating for policies that support hungry families on both the state and federal levels. Under her leadership, Feeding Pennsylvania has launched a number of new initiatives, including Fill a Glass with Hope ®, the nation’s first statewide charitable fresh milk distribution program, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Cooperative (MARC), a produce cooperative that distributes 30 million pounds of produce annually to 25 food banks in the Mid-Atlantic region; and the Healthy Pantry Initiative, a new program in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Health that will incentivize pantries to increase healthy food and beverages for the people they serve.

In her role, Jane serves on the state’s Mass Care Feeding Task Force through the PA Department of Human Resources and oversees a Disaster Response Committee, responding to both in and out of state disasters. In 2017, Jane was appointed by the PA Secretary of Agriculture to serve on the Emergency Food Assistance Advisory Council and is active in Governor Wolf’s Food Security Partnership.

Prior to joining Feeding Pennsylvania, Jane served as the Annual Giving and Fundraising Event Officer for The Guthrie Clinic, a nonprofit integrated health system located in north central Pennsylvania and Upstate New York. In this capacity, Jane was responsible for all aspects of the organization’s major fundraising events and internal annual giving campaigns. Before that, Jane worked for Chesapeake Energy, a major producer of natural gas in the United States, as a manager in corporate development, overseeing all community relations, outreach, and education in Chesapeake’s northeastern Pennsylvania operating area.

Beth Hamilton
Director of Member Services
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Beth Hamilton
Director of Member Services

Beth Hamilton is the Director of Member services, managing relationships for the MARC – interfacing with our member food banks and our donors to provide a high level of service for all of our stakeholders. Additionally, Beth supports with Feeding PA, advising and assisting on our Agricultural Partnerships programs.

Beth comes to us after 12+ years of service at Central PA Food Bank as their Director of Food Sourcing and Logistics. In that role, Beth managed and prospected for food donors, managed state and federal agricultural programs, coordinated sharing of resources, food purchases and donations among other Feeding America food banks and managed a team of 30 staff. During her tenure, Central Pennsylvania Food Bank expanded its annual distribution from 17 MM lbs. to over 71 MM lbs. at the height of the pandemic.

Prior to joining Feeding PA and the MARC, Beth served on the MARC and Feeding PA’s boards and recently served as the Board Chair of the PA Motor Truck Association.. Beth currently serves on Feeding America’s Food Sourcing Advisory Committee; and was appointed by the Secretary of the PA Department of Agriculture to serve on the state’s Emergency Food Assistance Advisory committee.

Megan Greevy
Healthy Pantry Initiative Project Manager
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Megan Greevy
Healthy Pantry Initiative Project Manager

Megan Greevy came on as our Healthy Pantry Initiative Coordinator and Registered Dietitian in January of 2019.  Megan completed her undergraduate degree in Nutrition at Mansfield University, then went on to do her dietetic internship and Master’s Degree through East Carolina University in North Carolina.  Since moving back to Pennsylvania, she has worked in healthcare with UPMC Pinnacle as a Registered Dietitian.

Megan works with our member food banks to increase healthy food and beverage distribution within their agency food pantries.  Her work includes developing/gathering nutrition education materials, educational programming, meeting infrastructure/equipment needs, and data collection.

Megan and her husband Scott live in Mechanicsburg with their two puppies that are like their children.  They love to spend time outdoors especially hiking and camping.  Megan loves all things food!  In the spring and summer months Megan can spend hours out in her garden.  Megan also enjoy cooking and trying new foods.

Tom Mainzer
Director of Agricultural Partnerships
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Tom Mainzer
Director of Agricultural Partnerships

Tom Mainzer serves as Director of Agricultural Partnerships for Feeding Pennsylvania. In that role, Tom is responsible for developing agriculture programs and relationships, as well as managing the Pennsylvania Agricultural Surplus System program and the Farm to Food Bank program. He works with agricultural producers and food manufacturers on opportunities to support Pennsylvania’s charitable food system all while helping to reduce hunger within the Commonwealth.

Prior to joining Feeding PA, Tom worked with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture as their Agricultural Trade Specialist assisting the Commonwealth’s food and agricultural producers and processors pursue export sales and other international business opportunities. This work also involved projects with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the USDA and their Market Access Program cooperator partners.

Tom resides in State College, PA with his wife Emily and daughter Kathryn. He is a graduate of King’s College and received his MBA from Lehigh University. He enjoys golfing and spending time outdoors.

Shea S. Saman
Chief Financial Officer
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Shea S. Saman
Chief Financial Officer

Shea joined Feeding Pennsylvania in May 2021 as Chief Financial Officer, and oversees the finance, human resources, and technology functions of the organization. Shea began his career in public accounting by providing audit, tax, valuation and litigation support services for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Most recently, Shea served as the Director of Finance and Accounting at the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank (CPFB), where he worked for over eight years building the finance and technology functions that supported the organization’s rapid growth and impact of its hunger-relief efforts. While at CPFB, Shea helped to develop CPFB’s PASS program and was responsible for leading the administration of the program during CPFB’s five-year contract term. During that time, Shea also provided accounting and administrative support to Feeding Pennsylvania.

Shea serves on the board of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs and volunteers on several of its committees, and is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Shea also serves as Chair of Feeding America’s Financial Leaders Steering Committee, which helps to develop best practices in accounting and finance for the network of 200 regional food banks across the country. Shea holds a B.S. in Accounting from Penn State Harrisburg and is a graduate of Leadership Harrisburg Area’s Community Leadership Series.

In his free time, Shea enjoys music and spending time outdoors. Shea lives in Camp Hill with his wife Emily and two daughters, Robyn and Nina.

Claudia Sauers 
Data Systems Project Manager
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Claudia Sauers 
Data Systems Project Manager

Claudia Sauers joined Feeding Pennsylvania as the Data Systems Project Manager in March 2022. In this role, Claudia will oversee the strategic design, development, and maintenance of statewide data collection tools and processes, data warehouses, and reporting tools that support the goals of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the charitable food network, and other key stakeholders.

Claudia has been working in data operations for more than 8 years in data collection, analysis, and reporting to support nonprofit fundraising efforts. Claudia is joining Feeding Pennsylvania from the Asbury Foundation, a nonprofit senior living organization spanning three states, where she served as the Director of Development Operations. Prior to that role, she served as the Development Database Manager at the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and is eager to rejoin the anti-hunger movement using her food bank experience to enhance and streamline data reporting for Pennsylvania’s charitable food network.

In her free time, Claudia enjoys kayaking and spending time outdoors. Claudia lives in Selinsgrove with her husband Tony, and son Finn.

 

James DeMarsh
Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Cooperative
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James DeMarsh
Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Cooperative

James is the Director of the MARC and is responsible for day to day management as well as working with Feeding America and partner organizations on behalf of the MARC’s 24 members.  So far James has worn every hat at the MARC having been the first employee at startup.  James leverages his produce industry experience and relationships to find new produce and logistics opportunities for the MARC and its membership.

Prior to the MARC James worked for a specialty produce importer and wholesaler, a non-profit local foods distributor, a farmer-owned organic produce cooperative, and on a 200-acre vegetable farm.  He first got interested in produce while in college at Cornell University working on a vegetable research farm because it was more fun and interesting than doing anything related to his major.  James is one of only a few people to have grown up in Massachusetts and have no accent.  His favorite thing to do on the weekend might be splashing around in boats and digging clams no matter the time of year.

John Sciortino
Operations Manager, Mid-Atlantic Regional Cooperative
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John Sciortino
Operations Manager, Mid-Atlantic Regional Cooperative

John is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations at the MARC, in addition to managing all procurement and donation opportunities. He is extremely excited to be working at the MARC and is looking forward to continuously expanding his role to best support its members.

Prior to the MARC, John spent most of his adult life playing every role imaginable in the music industry. From booking nationwide tours, to overseeing venue operations, he brings a wealth of logistical and interpersonal skills to the MARC. His recent stints at organic vegetable farms in New Jersey and his home state of Vermont ignited his passion for fresh produce. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, an avid musician, and spends most of his free time either reading or cooking.

Nicole Calle
Operations Coordinator
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Nicole Calle
Operations Coordinator

Nicole Calle

Lucy Heurich
Member Services Coordinator
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Lucy Heurich
Member Services Coordinator

Lucy Heurich

Financial Information

Feeding Pennsylvania is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization recognized by the State of Pennsylvania and the Internal Revenue Service.

We receive support from respected, national anti-hunger organizations including Feeding America, the State of Pennsylvania, and donations from both individuals and corporate partners.

As a statewide association of food banks, most of our annual budget is distributed directly to regional food banks to assist them in providing food and services in their community.

We are proud to be rated an “85” by Charity Navigator and a “Bronze Seal of Transparency” organization by Guide Star.

Read more about our financial stewardship in the reports and documents below.

Quarterly Updates

Right now, and throughout the pandemic, Feeding Pennsylvania food banks are doing everything they can to meet the increasing need, but the crisis response has resulted in a significant financial burden. In turn, our food banks have been relying on the generosity of donors to support these costs. Feeding Pennsylvania food banks will continue to fight hunger on the front lines work toward ensuring that every family in Pennsylvania has access to nutritious food.