Thomas Mantz
Thomas Mantz joined Feeding Tampa Bay as President and CEO in October of 2012. During Thomas' tenure with the foodbank the organization has experienced significant growth. Most importantly, meals to the community have grown from 15 million to almost 90 million per year. Â
In 2018 the foodbank launched its ending hunger strategy that includes job training, benefits access, and other education services that create capacity and move people towards personal and household capability, materially changing outcomes.Â
During his tenure, fundraising has risen by almost 1000% with broader diversification of revenue streams, increases in partnerships, and the implementation of a multi-strategy brand-awareness, marketing and development program. Â In 2023 Feeding Tampa Bay completed a $60M capital campaign to fund a new Community Center and Food Bank.Â
Over his tenure, Feeding Tampa Bay has launched many innovative strategic initiatives including the founding of the Center for Food Security and Healthy Access with the University of South Florida, a merger with another charity that expanded services, deploying health and hunger interventions along with unique programs that support education, seniors and veterans.
Previously, Thomas served as leader of several other non-profit organizations. During an 18-year career in the finance industry, Mantz spent his years as an operation executive in the banking industry in Florida, New York, and Moscow, Russia, before returning to Jacksonville and beginning his work in the non-profit community in 2000. Â Â
Thomas serves on the boards of The Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Tampa Bay Partnership, the YMCA as well as Feeding Florida and the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative (THHI).
Thomas is a graduate of the University of North Florida with a B.A. in Political Science. Â He has completed Harvard's Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management course as well as Georgetown's New Strategies Program held at the McDonough School of Business.