Stephen Davis, MBA

Harvesters is a regional non-profit and food bank that serves 27 counties in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. Harvesters provides food and related household products to approximately 900 non-profit agencies including food pantries, community kitchens, children’s homes, shelters, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, churches, health care providers, and others. In addition, we partner with approximately 400 schools for our back-snack program, school pantry program, and nutrition education programs. As outlined in the Map the Meal Gap study, my team serves approximately 339,000 people who are food insecure in our region. That represents 1 in 8 adults and 1 in 6 children who live in our 27-county region. In addition, we offer education and advocacy programs to increase community awareness of hunger and to teach nutrition to children and adults. Harvesters is a member of the Feeding America national network of food banks. A key focus of our organization is to work in strong collaboration with other food banks across the country. We are proud to serve as one of five regional disaster relief staging areas in the Feeding America network. Our organization works in collaboration to facilitate disaster response activities across the mid-west region and the United States. During the 2024 fiscal year, we distributed more than 60.8 million pounds of food and provided 54.6 million meals. We hosted 58,971 volunteers who donated 130,003 hours of service to the organization. I was elected to the Feeding America National Council and will begin my 3-year term in January 2025. I serve on the Feeding Missouri Board. I also have served on more than a dozen national committees and task forces.

Harvesters is a regional non-profit and food bank that serves 27 counties in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. Harvesters provides food and related household products to approximately 900 non-profit agencies including food pantries, community kitchens, children’s homes, shelters, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, churches, health care providers, schools, and others. As outlined in the Map the Meal Gap study, my team serves approximately 339,000 people who are food insecure in our region. That represents 1 in 8 adults and 1 in 6 children who live in our 27-county region. I oversaw the operations of the organization which included: Agency & Program Relations, SNAP, Government Programs, Nutrition Services, Service Insights, IT, Business Systems, Inventory Control, Warehouse, Transportation, Volunteer Center, Distribution, Kansas Distribution Center, and Disaster Response Efforts

Blue Valley School District is a dynamic high performing school district located south of Kansas City with an enrollment in excess of 22,000 students and 34 school locations. Within the school district, I had operational and leadership responsibility for nine areas. These included budgeting, financial management of grants, food and child nutrition services, warehousing, purchasing / contracts, classified staff development, facility rental & scheduling, printing services, and student transportation services. I was a member and board member of the Kansas Association of Business Officials. I served as the chair of the KASBO board for the 2014-2015 school year.

I started my career with Marriott Management Services (MMS), which then became Sodexho Marriott and then Sodexho. Sodexho School Services is a leading provider of professional management, consulting and outsourcing of school district food service and nutrition programs. I created and operated student focused school food service and child nutrition programs that were beneficial for children and their families. I advanced through a series of director level positions with increasing levels of responsibility. At the end of my tenure, I was a Area Manager with responsibility for all our San Diego county school district partnerships. My duties included: program development, program innovation, program implementation, program compliance, budget development, budget forecasting, creation of monthly profit and loss statements, board updates, administration communication, employee training, advisory groups, client focus groups, employee advisory groups, supervision and training within the school services leadership program, creation and administration of business plan and strategic plans, nutrition education programs, production, purchasing, costing, food safety, bid specification, purchases of equipment, state commodity programs, and knowledge of state and federal regulatory requirements. I was a leader in many nation-wide school food service program initiatives within the Sodexho School Services organization.