Case Study: Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank achieves disaster-ready resilience and faster relief response with Microsoft Azure

After a disaster, this nonprofit is more prepared than ever—through the cloud

Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is a small Louisiana nonprofit that serves 115 partner agencies across 11 parishes. In August 2016 a catastrophic flood submerged its offices, warehouses, trucks and on‑premises IT—destroying documents, inventory records and servers and crippling relief operations at a time of urgent need.

With a Microsoft Philanthropies grant the food bank moved to Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365, restoring operations within days. Cloud-based inventory and a custom Dynamics app enabled real‑time data from partners, faster, more accurate distributions, a two‑thirds cut in IT costs (funding an estimated 112,000 more meals), and far greater resilience and responsiveness for future disasters.

Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

Mike Manning

President and Chief Executive Officer