North Texas Meals Financial institution has appointed Annam Manthiram Chief Exterior Affairs Officer [Photo: North Texas Food Bank]
Veteran nonprofit meals financial institution chief Annam Manthiram has been appointed the brand new chief exterior affairs officer of The North Texas Meals Financial institution.
Manthiram will oversee NTFB’s exterior engagement technique, guiding philanthropy, advertising and marketing and communications, volunteer engagement, and public coverage initiatives. The meals financial institution mentioned her management additionally will embody particular person giving, company and basis assist, model and messaging methods, and board and advisory council relations.
“We’re thrilled to welcome somebody of Annam’s caliber to the North Texas Meals Financial institution,” President and CEO Trisha Cunningham mentioned in a press release. “Her in depth expertise in strategic planning, fundraising, communications, and nonprofit management—mixed along with her deep dedication to social influence—will probably be instrumental as we collaborate with group companions to struggle starvation in North Texas. Annam’s background in wrap-around companies additionally aligns carefully with the objectives of our new strategic plan, serving to us broaden our influence even additional.”
The meals financial institution mentioned that Manthiram brings in depth nonprofit expertise targeted on addressing the wants of unhoused and food-insecure communities.
‘Closing the starvation hole in North Texas’
Beforehand, Manthiram was CEO of CitySquare, a Dallas-based nonprofit and former NTFB accomplice company devoted to combating poverty via numerous packages and companies. Underneath her management, CitySquare transitioned its packages to accomplice organizations in late 2024 amid funding challenges, guaranteeing continuity of look after these served.
Earlier, she was CEO of HopeWorks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, via the COVID-19 disaster, serving to to efficiently function and maintain Hope Village—the primary single-site housing challenge in New Mexico for people experiencing power homelessness.
“I’m honored to hitch the North Texas Meals Financial institution and assist its mission in closing the starvation hole in North Texas,” Manthiram mentioned in a press release. “Meals is a fundamental human proper, and I’m deeply impressed by NTFB’s dedication to addressing starvation with compassion, innovation, and collaboration. I sit up for working alongside this devoted group and our group companions to assist create lasting options to meals insecurity.”
Erica Yaeger will probably be stepping down from her function after seven years because the meals financial institution’s chief exterior affairs officer throughout a transformative interval within the group’s historical past. To make sure a clean transition, she is going to proceed with NTFB to shut out the Nourish North Texas strategic plan and onboard Manthiram.
“As demand for meals help continues to stay excessive, and with reducing federal assist for the packages that assist meals banks meet this want, Annam’s management will probably be very important in advancing our mission,” Cunningham mentioned in a press release. “She’s going to play a key function in serving to NTFB advocate for stronger native, state, and federal assist.”
The North Texas Meals Financial institution fights starvation and offers kids, seniors, and households in North Texas entry to nutritious meals. For greater than 40 years, it has been on the forefront of starvation reduction, dedicated to making sure that nobody in our group lacks entry to wholesome meals.
Its community of 500 meals pantries and organizations, volunteers, and donors powers the supply of greater than 100 million nutritious meals yearly to these in want.
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