Along with his responsibilities as CEO of Innovative Senior Living, Klaus Axen leads Fundreasy, an organization that provides nonprofits with access to crowdfunding opportunities. Klaus Axen’s charitably minded endeavors also include supporting a food bank in his Tucson, Arizona, community.
Food banks are nonprofit organizations that serve as central collection and distribution points for charities whose missions center on confronting the issue of hunger. Food banks typically do not give food directly to those in need but instead provide the logistical backbone to help food pantries and other charities that do.
Food banks rely on donations from grocery stores and wholesalers to stock their shelves, putting to good use food that retailers might otherwise throw away. Beyond food distribution, food banks serve as community leaders, carrying out investigations into the local causes of poverty and encouraging elected officials to preserve much-needed programs. Common in most metropolitan areas, where on an annual basis they may store and distribute several million of pounds of food, food banks also exist as smaller operations in rural areas across the United States.
