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Tara Ellis
​FeedMore WNY
President & CEO

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Tara A. Ellis is the President and CEO of FeedMore WNY, the nonprofit created from the merger of the Food Bank of WNY, Meals on Wheels for Western New York, Inc. and Meals on Wheels Foundation of Western New York in 2019. In this role she oversees a hunger-relief organization that provides nutritious food and support to food-insecure community members of all ages, backgrounds and circumstances throughout Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie and Niagara counties.

​Ellis joined the Food Bank in 2017 after six years at Meals on Wheels with a vision of bringing the organizations together to better serve the community. Her passion is to ensure that all community members have equal access to fresh, healthy food and are served with dignity and respect. A big opportunity for the WNY food system is to take a fresh look at the pipeline to try to find new and innovative ways to get as close to zero waste as possible. A challenge is to funnel the community’s passion to serve their neighbors into positive alliances and collaborations to better use community resources. 
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​A non-profit organization of Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board

For more information about this project and how you can be involved, contact:
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New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Kimberly LaMendola, Food System Projects Manager 
4039 Route 219, Suite 200, Salamanca NY 14779
716-945-5301 ext. 2211
klamendola@southerntierwest.org
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Western New York Foundation

2495 Main Street, Suite 464, Buffalo NY 14214
716-839-4225


Beth Kinsman Gosch, Executive Director
bgosch@wnyfoundation.org

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Lauren VanOsten, Program Officer

Lvanosten@wnyfoundation.org
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