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United Way and Palm Beach County to Preview Community-Wide Hunger Relief Strategic Plan at County Commissioners Meeting Food Research and Action Center to Present Plan at Board of County Commissioners October 6, 2015 September 30, 2015 – Boynton Beach, FL – In early June, United Way of Palm Beach County and the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners announced a strategic partnership to develop a community-wide plan to alleviate hunger. The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) in collaboration with the University of South Carolina’s Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities (the USC Center) were contracted to conduct research and develop the Hunger Relief Plan. Now, four months later, FRAC will present the Plan at the Board of County Commissioners meeting on October 6th at 9:30 a.m. It will be held in the Palm Beach County Robert Weisman Governmental Center located at 301 N. Olive Ave., 6th floor, West Palm Beach, FL 33401. The public and local media are encouraged to attend. Palm Beach County is one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, however, on any given day approximately 200,000 residents struggle with hunger. More than 64,000 of those individuals are children. The creation of this plan was in response to these and other startling statistics and will highlight ten goals, with proposed strategies, tactics and outcomes for each. President and CEO of United Way of Palm Beach County, Dr. Laurie George, said of the Plan, “Our community stepped up to help with the Hunger Relief Plan in a way that FRAC and USC have not seen in other communities – that is tremendous and tells us that Palm Beach County is ready to join us in the fight against hunger.”