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SNAP Emergency Allotments

We have been informed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) emergency allotments are ending after nearly 3 years. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, signed into law last week, ended the authority for SNAP emergency allotments. The last [read]

SNAP Emergency Allotments

Happy New Year, and THANK YOU!

The past year brought record high inflation and rising prices on just about everything around us, which hit families and seniors facing hunger especially hard. But once again, YOU stepped forward to help your neighbors, and we couldn’t be more grateful. Thanks to your compassion and kindness, we were [read]

Happy New Year, and THANK YOU!

Fiscal Year Impact Report

Learn more about how we continued our mission to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community. Using food to create positive solutions for stability. Connecting people to programs and services. Providing hope with hands-on job training. Together we can solve hunger.

Fiscal Year Impact Report

Growing Beyond Hunger Groundbreaking and Campaign Celebration!

We are proud to celebrate a milestone with the groundbreaking of the Freestore Foodbank Community Resource and Distribution Center made possible by P&G and the Farmer Family Foundation Workforce Training Center.

Growing Beyond Hunger Groundbreaking and Campaign Celebration!

Keeping Infants Nourished and Developing (KIND)

Being food insecure is challenging enough, but imagine being a parent who needs to dilute your infant’s formula to ensure your child can eat throughout the week. This act of love is necessary for too many families in our region. Through Freestore Foodbank’s Keeping Infants Nourished and Developing (KIND) [read]

Keeping Infants Nourished and Developing (KIND)

Meet Major McNeil III

Major McNeil III Meet Major McNeil III, one of our 11 graduates in Freestore Foodbank’s LIFT the TriState Class #12. Though he’s had a few detours along the way, Major is now going places, starting to build a career powered by our Logistics, Inventory Management, Facilities Management [read]

Meet Major McNeil III

Helping Families in Cincinnati

One of every seven residents in the Cincinnati tristate area lives in poverty, meaning that more than 80,000 families in our community lack access to basic necessities, such as adequate food, shelter, transportation and clothing. This lack of basic necessities perpetuates a cycle...

Helping Families in Cincinnati

2021 Annual Meeting Video

We hope you’ll join us virtually to celebrate our work together. We’re so grateful for your generous support to bring food, connection and hope to our tristate neighbors. Your support has already made such a difference, but we know there is so much more to do.

2021 Annual Meeting Video

Best of Quacky

MORE BEST OF QUACKY VIDEOS DONATE MONTHLY Quacky the Duck is Freestore Foodbank's loveable mascot, and always up to something fun when out out helping the community! Yes, there’s a day for everything... and January 13 is Rubber Duckie Day! Even though today is all about [read]

Best of Quacky

I can’t begin to explain how much this means to me

LIFT the Tristate Graduate Many people know that Freestore Foodbank partners with 500+ partner agencies like food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens. We also have two job training programs to help people address the main reason for hunger -- poverty. These workforce development programs help unemployed and [read]

I can’t begin to explain how much this means to me
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