Feed The Children, Inc. - Introduction

Introduction

P.O. Box 36
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101-0036
U.S.A.
Telephone: (405) 942-0228
Toll Free: (800) 627-4556
Fax: (405) 945-4177
Web site: http://www.feedthechildren.org

Nonprofit Company
Incorporated: 1979
Employees: 160
Sales: $575.9 million (2003)
NAIC: 624230 Emergency and Other Relief Services

Feed The Children, Inc., is an international relief agency founded and run by televangelist Larry Jones of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The organization provides food, medical care, and day-to-day necessities to needy people in the United States, and also responds to humanitarian crises, disasters, and wars around the world. Feed The Children provides short-term emergency relief as well as working toward long-term improvements in quality of life. Donations of surplus goods and money come from corporations, viewers of Jones's television broadcasts, and through the efforts of other parties including celebrities like actress Melanie Griffith and country singer Garth Brooks.