Inspired by the Obvious

Lee Iacocca said, “If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.”

Someone once called Steve Gibbs the “Lee Iacocca of poverty.”

For some 30 years, Steve Gibbs has been relentlessly hardworking, making the Freestore Foodbank into a healthy enterprise, “a serious piece of business.”

What inspires him to work so hard? “Feeding people is not that abstract. I’m drawn by the obvious – feed people who are hungry.”

Download the pdf at left to read the story originally published in our 2004 Annual Report to the Community.