THE FOOD TRUST
“Helping us to become more ‘cutting edge’…”

Yael Lehmann
Executive Director

Founded in 1992 to bring healthy, affordable, and nutritious food to inner-city areas, The Food Trust has grown to a $5.8 million nonprofit operation recognized by Time Magazine as being a “remarkable success.” And Your Part-Time Controller has been a part of this dynamic growth from the beginning.

“Your Part-Time Controller came in right away at the start to set up our books and get us off to a right start,” says Executive Director Yael Lehmann. As The Food Trust grew (today it has about 70 employees and a presence in 13 states), “We’ve found they’ve been able to help us through every phase of our organizational life.”

Starting from a program of operating farmers’ markets in low-income areas, The Food Trust today also brings nutrition education, healthy school and after-school food programs, and fresh food opportunities to retail stores in neighborhoods where fast food and childhood obesity have become ways of life.

“We’re not a food bank – we see our work as preventive, trying to transform neighborhoods through greater accessibility to fresh and healthy food,” she says.

For people to be healthy they have to eat healthy, and access to healthful food has to be easy if such programs are to work. The Food Trust has been recognized by Time Magazine and The White House for making these programs accessible, and for obtaining positive results in combating childhood overweight. With increasing attention to the problems associated with childhood obesity has come dramatic organizational growth.

“Your Part-Time Controller is helping us to ensure that the internal workings of our business are as spectacular as the external ones,” says Lehmann. “We couldn’t do it without them.”

Today, YPTC associates are revamping The Food Trust’s internal systems, from software to invoicing, from billing systems to determining who needs to be on the financial team. “We’re proud that we’re considered to be so innovative, and YPTC is helping us to become even more ‘cutting edge,’” says Lehmann. “They’re helping us to think through how to be sustainable for the next 17 years.”