On May 10, 2013, Food Bank Executive Director Kate Lombardo was honored as "Partner of the Year" at the Stamford Salvation Army's Annual Recognition Breakfast. 
 
The letter advising advising Kate of this award states, in pertinent part: 
 
"The Salvation Army knows the priceless values that partners can be to help us achieve our mission.  We could not clothe the naked, friend the friendless, or feed the hungry without your partnership.
 

On behalf of Charity Navigator, I wish to congratulate The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County on achieving our coveted 4-star rating for sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency.

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The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County, Inc., a fully recognized I.R.C. 501 (c) (3) charity, is lower Fairfield County’s primary hunger-relief organization. We provide food to more than 85 non-profit agencies and programs that serve low income people in our six town service area through bags of groceries and congregate meals. These include soup kitchens, food pantries, child care programs, homeless shelters, senior centers, domestic violence safe houses, and rehabilitation programs.

To serve as an efficient and effective provider of nutritious food to non-profit organizations that feed the hungry in Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford and Wilton, while seeking to raise awareness of, and promote action to combat, hunger in those communities.