Atlanta Food Bank’s Community Food Center Coming To Jonesboro Opening Date To Be Announced Later
Atlanta Community Food Bank is opening a Community Food Center in the former Ingles shopping center on Stockbridge Road in Jonesboro.
- Staff Photo: Heather Middleton
Atlanta Community Food Bank is opening a Community Food Center in the former Ingles shopping center on Stockbridge Road in Jonesboro.
- Staff Photo: Heather Middleton
JONESBORO Atlanta Community Food Bank is putting down roots in Clayton County.
The Jonesboro City Council approved the food banks request for a conditional use permit to open a Community Food Center in the old Ingles shopping center on Stockbridge Road. The center will occupy the now vacant former Dollar General and church store fronts.
ACFB Communications Director Edward Westreicher said the food bank is currently building out the location to create a pleasant and functional space to visit. When determined, an official opening date will be announced for the new center.
“We look forward to serving our neighbors in the area as soon as we can,” he said.
Until then, those in need can visit www.acfb.org to find a pantry location.
The center, according Debra Shoaf with ACFB, will operate similar to grocery store curbside services in that customers will drive up, park in a designated spot and food will be loaded into their cars by a volunteer.
Food center locations, Shoaf said, are selected based on where there is a high need with fewer services from partner agencies.
Were trying to fill the gap, she said.
Expected pick up times are:
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program is a federal program that targets low-income seniors in Georgia, sixty years of age or older, to help supplement their diets by providing them with nutritious commodities and nutrition education information at no cost.
Under CSFP, commodity foods are made available to states by the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. Foods available for monthly distribution may include milk, canned vegetables, cereal, pasta, rice, canned meats, canned fruit, juices, peanut butter, dried beans and cheese. In Georgia, two Food Banks have been selected to distribute these food commodities: The Atlanta Community Food Bank and the Second Harvest Food Bank of South Georgia:
- The Atlanta Community Food Bank serves Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Polk, Rockdale and Walton counties. The food bank can be reached at 832-4968.
- Second Harvest of South Georgia Food Bank serves Atkinson, Brooks, Coffee, Colquitt, Grady, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas, Tift and Turner counties. The food bank can be reached at 244-2678, Extension 206.
For more information on the availability of the CSFP program in your area, please contact one of the above food banks. For questions about CSFP, please contact the State Office at 657-3745.
Atlanta Community Food Bank Receives $58 Million Investment
Editors note: A story published on Feb. 22 included an incorrect dollar amount.
The Atlanta Community Food Bank is receiving millions of dollars to provide additional food and support to communities across Georgia, according to BlueHub Capital, a national nonprofit community development finance organization.
On Tuesday, BlueHub announced its making a $5.8 million New Markets Tax Credit investment in the Food Bank, which gives food to more than700 nonprofits in 29 Georgia counties.
The federal New Markets Tax Credit program uses money from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to make operating capital available as low-interest loans. Its not a donation from BlueHub, whose $543 million tax credit program supports low-income areas.
The funds will support the Food Banks efforts to add 81 new full-time positions, retain 159 full-time employees, and help fund the distribution of 107 million pounds of food this year, according to BlueHub.
Elyse Cherry, BlueHub Capitals CEO, said in a statement that BlueHub wants to support the Food Bank because the Food Banks budgets and operations were challenged by the pandemic.
Atlanta Community Food Bank estimates more than half of the people it serves are working families that earn too much to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, but not enough to meet their basic needs with rising healthcare, housing and food costs.
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Atlanta Community Food Bank Unveils World’s Largest Non
ATLANTA, Ga. — Atlanta has the largest non-profit food bank facility in the world. The Atlanta Community Food Bank opened it to the public for the first time on September 24, 2021, and they gave CW69 a first hand look inside the state-of-the-art building.
Volunteers and workers at the food bank now have a 345,000 square foot facility to work in. “I got to see their old facility when I was a freshman, and so now I’m coming back almost a year and a half later. It’s awesome,” said Gabrielle Davis, a volunteer.
Officials held a warehouse warming to celebrate the occasion. “This building represents what can happen when community comes together with one common goal and one common purpose,” said ACFB CEO Kyle Waide. They broke ground on the building in 2019 and operations started in 2020. COVID kept it closed to the public until now, and they created other ways to get food to those in need. “We have been engaged in one marathon sprint after another, designing the building, raising the money, managing the construction,” said ACFB Board of Directors Chair Mitch Harrison.
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The Community Food Center Connects Families And Individuals In Need With Groceries
Food assistance is available.
Our Community Food Centers are direct-to-families food pantries operated by the Atlanta Community Food Bank and its volunteers. We establish CFCs in communities where local resources are insufficient to meet the needs of families living with food insecurity. CFCs will become an integral part of our extensive network of nonprofit partner agencies serving local communities.
While walk-ins are welcome, appointments are encouraged to ensure we have food available.
Food Distribution Hours:
- Monday | 2:30 pm 6:15 pm
- Tuesday | 12:00 pm 3:45 pm
- Thursday | 2:30 pm 6:15 pm
To make an appointment to get food:
Atlanta Community Food Bank Salary Faqs
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Atlanta Community Food Bank To Receive $29 Million Federal Covid
The Atlanta Community Food Bank is receiving $29 million from the states portion of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds.
Food Bank President and CEO Kyle Waide said the funding will support what the nonprofit is doing between now and 2024, to purchase essential grocery items for families facing food insecurity a federal term describing the conditions of a household without consistent access to enough food for everyone in the home to live an active, healthy life.
The state is still finalizing the details of how the funding will be distributed, but Waide said its the largest single-funding award in the Food Banks history, and one of the largest given to a single food bank in the country.
The funds come from the $1.9 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed into law last March to provide relief to citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Atlanta Community Food Bank estimates more than half of the people it serves are working families that earn too much to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, but not enough to meet their basic needs with rising healthcare, housing and food costs.
Prior to the pandemic, the Food Bank spent an estimated $2 million a year to supply goods to more than 700 nonprofits to aid to 700,000 families across 29 counties in Georgia. The cost of their food purchases jumped to roughly $13 million due to COVID, representing a nearly 600% increase compared to pre-COVID levels.
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We work with more than 700 nonprofit partnersincluding food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, shelters and senior centersto distribute over 67 million meals to more than 1 million people estimated to be food insecure due to COVID-19 in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.
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We partner with food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters, and senior centers that receive food and goods from us. In turn, these partners provide food and other critical resources for the more than 1 million people estimated to be food insecure due to COVID-19 in our service area who suffer from hunger and food insecurity.
Our mission is to fight hunger by engaging, educating and empowering our community. While our core work is food distribution, our efforts extend far beyond that. Our mission is lived out every day by engaging, educating and empowering both people in need and those who want to help. From volunteering your time to assisting people in finding economic security, the Food Bank covers a wide range of opportunities for people to learn and get involved.