About Us
Neighbors Feeding Neighbors, Every Day.
Flagstaff Family Food Center hasn’t missed a single hot meal since 1991!
Our Story
Over 30 years ago, local businessman and philanthropist George McCullough would give his business card to any person he met on the street who needed some help and tell them to head over to the Grand Canyon Cafe for a hot meal and use his business card as payment at the end of the month, he would square up with the restaurant owners, Fred and Tina Wong. McCullough’s generosity became well known around Flagstaff and eventually evolved into a soup kitchen, first opened in the basement of his church.
More and more community members became drawn to the mission of feeding those in need and on Christmas Day 1991, the Flagstaff Family Food Center officially opened its doors. The Center’s merger with Northern Arizona Food Bank in 2013 led to our new name of Flagstaff Family Food Center: Food Bank and Kitchen, and widened the scope of our services to include emergency family food boxes.
And that’s how a community built the Flagstaff Family Food Center: Food Bank and Kitchen.
Individuals Served Last Year
Emergency Food Boxes (EFBs) Provided to the Community Last Year
Pounds of Food Diverted from Landfills through our Grocery Rescue Program
Pounds of Food Diverted from Landfills through our Food for Farms Program
Our Leadership
Ethan Amos
President & CEO
Our Great Staff
Flagstaff Family Food Center
Board of Directors
- Sylvia A. Johnson, Chair (FUSD, Retired)
- Eric Boatner, Co-Vice Chair (Allstate Insurance)
- Sedric Cade, Co-Vice Chair (Edward Jones)
- Carol Dykes, Secretary (United Way of Northern Arizona, Retired)
- Savannah Torkelson, Treasurer (Account For It All LLC)
- Rommy Sekhon, Member (Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona)
- Alan Chan, Member (Babbitt Ford)
- Reverend Shannon Leach, Member (Retired)
- Natalie A. Reed, Member (California Baptist University)
- Lori Pearlmutter, Member (Healthcare, Retired)
- Jeff Shiffman, Member (W.L. Gore & Associates)
- Tony Ward, Member (Canyon Coolers)
- Justin Cully, Member (Chief Ranger, Grand Canyon National Park)
- Mike Scott, Member (Grand Canyon Food Pantry, Retired)
- Brenda Armour, Member (Chase Bank)
Legacy Members
- Joel Rohrbough (Northern Arizona Orthopedics)
- Tim McCullough (NFP Insurance)
- Chris Budwig (FFFC)
- Kristen Downs (Northern AZ Ear, Nose & Throat)
- Jim Dykes (W.L. Gore & Associates)