Community Harvest Food Bank

About

...seeking to alleviate hunger through the full use of donated food and other resources.

Mission

Community Harvest's mission is to alleviate hunger through the full use of donated food and other resources, and to increase public awareness of and involvement in solutions to hunger. In pursuit of this mission, Community Harvest solicits surplus food and grocery donations from the food industry, and through community food drives, and transports the product to our warehouse at 999 East Tillman Road. The food is sorted, inspected for quality, and readied for distribution to the hungry via a member agency network of over 430 churches and social service agencies. These agencies include such vital services as emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, rehabilitation centers, youth and older adult programs. This network serves 21,100 unduplicated people each week in Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells and Whitley counties.

Community Harvest is the largest hunger relief organization in northeast Indiana. Community Harvest is the only area affiliate of Feeding America. Community Harvest has greater access than any other area human service organization to donated product offerings, and greater capacity to handle large-volume donations and coordinate their distribution to hundreds of neighborhood charities.

Products

Since 1983, Community Harvest has distributed over 161 million pounds of donated food and groceries. While Community Harvest is primarily a collaborator with our member agencies to address the food needs of area residents, we have taken the lead in providing direct food assistance to those groups most vulnerable to hunger, namely children, older adults, women heads of household, and "working poor" families. Our direct service programs include Kids Cafe, Senior Pak, and Community Cupboard.

Community Harvest represents the partnership of food donors, member agencies, volunteers, private and public donors of funds dedicated to hunger relief.