Who And Where We Serve:
The Northeast Iowa Food Bank distributes nutritious food and grocery products to 170 nonprofit organizations and programs that help families and individuals with food assistance.
Counties served: Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Fayette, Floyd, Grundy, Howard, Mitchell, Poweshiek, Tama, Winneshiek
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Founded in 1981 to reduce food waste and meet a need for emergency food in the community, the Northeast Iowa Food Bank provides nutritious food to nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout Northeast Iowa.
Our Mission
The mission of the Northeast Iowa Food Bank is to provide nutritious food and grocery products to non-profit organizations and individuals in Northeast Iowa, while offering hunger education programs to the area and those in need.
The Northeast Iowa Food Bank has five primary programs.
Cedar Valley Food Pantry
Provides emergency and supplemental food to people in need throughout the Cedar Valley.
Food Distribution Program
The Northeast Iowa Food Bank serves approximately 200 agencies in a 16 county service area. On average, we annually distribute over five million pounds of food.
Kids Cafe
In collaboration with the Boys & Girls Club, The Salvation Army, Hoover Middle School, Bunger Middle School and Logan Middle School , EPI/Deery Center, Poyner Elementary School and North Cedar, this program provides an evening meal or snack to children in a safe and friendly setting.
Operation Family Pack
Now operating in 56 locations, this program provides back packs full of food to children in need.
Elderly Nutrition Boxes
Northeast Iowa Food Bank
The mission of the Northeast Iowa Food Bank is to provide nutritious food and grocery products to non-profit organizations and individuals in Northeast Iowa, while offering hunger education programs to the area and those in need. The Northeast Iowa Food Bank has the following programs to fight hunger in Northeast Iowa: Food Distribution Kids Cafe Operation Family Pack Elderly Nutrition Boxes Elderly Weekend Bags Program and Cedar Valley Food Pantry. They serve 16 counties in Northeast Iowa, east to the Mississippi River, north to the Minnesota border, and south to Poweshiek County. More than an estimated 35,700 Northeast Iowa residents, including nearly 14,600 children, receive emergency food assistance each year from the Northeast Iowa Food Bank. The mission of the Northeast Iowa Food Bank is to provide food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations and individuals in Northeast Iowa while offering hunger education to the community and those in need.Alternate phone: 235-0507
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A Dollar Goes A Long Way
Each $1 you give can help provide up to 4 meals!
$1 can help provide up to 4 meals.
Right now, one in six people in Northeast Iowa donât have enough to eat. Your gift now will help provide food and hope to hungry children, families and seniors right here in our community. Together, we can fight hunger in Northeast Iowa.
What We Do
Today we serve 16 counties in northeast Iowa through our distribution center in Waterloo. We provide nutritious food to 5,800 different people weekly through a far-reaching network of over 200 food pantries, soup kitchens, schools, churches, and nonprofit groups. In 2015, we distributed 7 million pounds of food to those who are hungry in northeast Iowa.
We are members of Feeding America, a national organization supporting more than 200 food banks across the country, and the largest domestic hunger relief agency in the U.S. We are also members of the Iowa Food Bank Association, an association of the six food banks in Iowa.
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