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Food Bank Of Delaware
Mission
Our Mission is a community free of hunger.
We work to achieve this, primarily in Delaware, by:
-Providing low- and no-cost food to qualified feeding programs throughout the greater Delaware region;
-Informing the greater Delaware community about hunger issues and food security;
-Mobilizing support for anti-hunger efforts;
-Training and empowering under- and un-employed individuals to fill needed Positions within the food service industry;
-And developing and implementing statewide feeding programs to assist low-income families, individuals and children.
The Food Bank of Delaware, a member of Feeding America, formerly America's Second Harvest, is a statewide nonprofit agency whose mission is a community free of hunger. Originally founded in 1981 as the Food Conservers, Inc., the Food Bank of Delaware has provided food assistance to Delawareans at risk of hunger for more than 25 years.
We have grown from humble beginnings as an organization who served 50 agencies out of a basement in the Northeast State Social Service Center in Wilmington to a statewide hunger-relief organization with operations in both Newark and Milford. Today we are the only facility in Delaware with the equipment, warehouse and staff to collect donations from all sectors of the food industry and safely and efficiently redistribute them to those who need it most.
While we know that there is a growing need for hunger-relief programs in the state of Delaware, we also recognize the need to think beyond traditional hunger-relief methods and provide programs that give low-income people the skills needed to earn a living wage so that they no longer have to rely on support from agencies like us.
Our Mission is a community free of hunger.
We work to achieve this, primarily in Delaware, by:
-Providing low- and no-cost food to qualified feeding programs throughout the greater Delaware region;
-Informing the greater Delaware community about hunger issues and food security;
-Mobilizing support for anti-hunger efforts;
-Training and empowering under- and un-employed individuals to fill needed Positions within the food service industry;
-And developing and implementing statewide feeding programs to assist low-income families, individuals and children.
The Food Bank of Delaware, a member of Feeding America, formerly America's Second Harvest, is a statewide nonprofit agency whose mission is a community free of hunger. Originally founded in 1981 as the Food Conservers, Inc., the Food Bank of Delaware has provided food assistance to Delawareans at risk of hunger for more than 25 years.
We have grown from humble beginnings as an organization who served 50 agencies out of a basement in the Northeast State Social Service Center in Wilmington to a statewide hunger-relief organization with operations in both Newark and Milford. Today we are the only facility in Delaware with the equipment, warehouse and staff to collect donations from all sectors of the food industry and safely and efficiently redistribute them to those who need it most.
While we know that there is a growing need for hunger-relief programs in the state of Delaware, we also recognize the need to think beyond traditional hunger-relief methods and provide programs that give low-income people the skills needed to earn a living wage so that they no longer have to rely on support from agencies like us.