Partner Agencies

The Harry Chapin Food Bank works in partnership with 170 food relief agencies located throughout Southwest Florida. These Partner Agencies help get food and other essentials to children and adults at risk of hunger. Our network includes food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency organizations, shelters, daycare centers, residential centers, rehabilitation centers, missions, and senior and youth centers.

These invaluable Partner Agencies work in partnership with the Food Bank to 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, staff and volunteers prepared to respond to hunger relief in a certain locale or region or to a particular population segment in need. Still others are non-profit schools, fhe 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 Partner Agencies so that the various organizations can learn from each other, while strengthening and extending the infrastructure and service base.