Amador County – The Interfaith Food Bank Executive Director Kathleen Harmon has retired from her position after 13 years, and will take over as the next Executive Director of the Amador Community Foundation, at the first of the year. It will be in a dual role, as she will also remain as director of the Food Bank until it transitions into its new director.
Harmon said Wednesday she has retired from the Food Bank to go back to the challenge of marketing and development and grassroots development. She said she will be leaving an amazing organization and looking forward to the Amador Community Foundation becoming that same amazing organization under her leadership. She said she is a developer and is looking forward to helping develop the Foundation.
Harmon takes over after Tina Hurley, who took over the position from Shannon Lowery in January 2011. Harmon said it was time for a leadership change. She has been on the Interfaith Food Bank Board of Directors since it was being formed, when the original grant was awarded to build the facility.
As executive director, Harmon said she took the Food Bank from a $35,000 annual budget organization to a $3.6 million corporate structure that does an amazing job of feeding people in Amador County,” with corporate cash and food donations.
She said Food Bank has 210 volunteers and distributes 3 million pounds of food a year, with 1.6 million pounds of donated food. “We do this because the community makes it happen,” Harmon said, and she just hands off the baton. “There are lots of hands and feet that makes it happen.”
In April, Harmon was selected by Assemblywoman Alyson Huber as the California Women’s Legislative Caucus Assembly District 10 Woman of the Year. She was honored, in part because she “advocates for her agency at the state and federal level while she oversees fundraising, food procurement and distribution for 4,000 people each month with an all-volunteer staff.”
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