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The Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society will host Jeff Quick, CEO of the Food Bank of North Central Arkansas, for a free talk on the history of hunger in Arkansas.
The program, titled “From Hunger to Hope,” is set for Tuesday, June 23, at 6 p.m. in the Knox Room of the Baxter County Library in Mountain Home. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Quick has spent about 15 years working to end hunger across north central Arkansas. He first volunteered at the Food Bank as a child alongside his grandmother and later brought youth and young adult mission teams to the organization.
Earlier in his career, Quick worked with United Methodist churches in Arkansas and Texas as a director of youth and young adult ministries. He moved back to Mountain Home in 2007 and joined the Food Bank’s board of directors. He was hired as the Food Bank’s development director in 2011 and was promoted to CEO soon after.
The Food Bank of North Central Arkansas, founded in 1982, is a nonprofit and a founding member of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance. It distributes about 4.5 million pounds of food a year to pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, and backpack and meal programs. The Food Bank says its work reaches roughly 20,000 people a month across a nine-county area.
The talk is part of the society’s monthly program series, which meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month.
For more information, visit www.BaxterCountyHistory.org or find the Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. on Facebook.
