Food Bank Member Agencies

Our Member Agencies

          The Harry Chapin Food Bank works in partnership with many food relief agencies located throughout Southwest Florida. All of these agencies help get food and other essentials to children and adults at risk for hunger. Our network includes food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency organizations, shelters, daycare centers, residential centers, rehabilitation centers, missions, and senior and youth centers and associations.

          These invaluable agencies work in

  partnership with the Food Bank to help

  provide nutritious and balanced meals and

  groceries to families, children, senior adults,

  homeless people, homebound individuals,

  and the working poor -- all of whom are at

  risk of going hungry in their communities.

           Many of our partner agencies are

  churches, chapels, parishes, temples or

  other faith-based organizations. Others are

  independent nonprofit organizations with

  their own boards, staffs and volunteers

 initiated to respond to hunger relief in a certain locale or region or to a particular population segment in need.  Still others are schools, fraternal clubs, the Salvation Army, charities, Boys & Girls clubs, American Red Cross, or independent missions and outreach ministries.

           The Food Bank works with these agencies, providing a continuum of services and resources over and above the allocations and distributions of foods. Such services include helping the agencies build capacity through seminars, information materials, hands-on workshops and educational products, and the maintenance of appropriate code standards.

The Harry Chapin Food Bank is committed to maintaining a true "network" of member agencies so that the various organizations can learn from each other, while strengthening and extending the infrastructure and service base.

           From time-to-time, partner agencies are added to the Food Bank members, thus becoming eligible for delivery of foods and receipt of services. Sometimes, an agency pulls back from its efforts to serve the hungry for a variety of financial, organizational and other issues.