40 Years of Community Service

Meals on Wheels of Syracuse
Then and Now

1959 1999
Average # of Clients Served per Day 20 400
Meals Served in a One Year Period 15,676 210,000
Average # of Meals Served per Day 61 785
Clients served in a One_Year Period 143 1000
# of Delivery Routes 6 39
# of Volunteers per Day Needed 15 80
Volunteer Hours in the Year 6,300 23,400
Cost per Meal $1.35 $3.56

 

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the 60's
183,000 meals 3500 clients

the 70's
339,000 meals served to 5000 clients

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The 90's
1,900,000 meals served to 9,000 clients

The 80's
1,008,000 meals served to 7,000 clients

 

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