Kansas Foodbank Warehouse

To alleviate Hunger in our 85 county service area.

To provide Health Foods for a healthy lifestyle.

To insure everyone has the Food they need.

The Kansas Food Bank has several strategies in place to ensure No Kansas Go Hungry.

Feeding Kids - we operate a weekend backpack program aimed to reach chronically hungry children during the school year. These are children who lack regular access to meals when school is not in session. We also operate summer food programs, again to reach kids during a time that school meals are not available.

Feeding Seniors - we have four different models to help provide meals to seniors. CSFP is the commodity supplemental food program designed for low income seniors. Bob Boxes reach those seniors to proud to ask for help. Senior Mobile Pantries are held in specific counties to reach seniors that lack other services. Finally in Wichita, we work with Senior Services to provide monthly food boxes to seniors who need additional assistance.

Feeding Families - we have 160 pantry partners in 85 counties that we work with to provide food for them to distribute to households in need. We also run monthly mobile pantries to communities that lack or have limited pantry service.

Health Foods - we have made the commitment to provide healthier, fresh foods. Of the households we serve, 27% have at least one member with diabetes and 48% have at least one member with heart disease. We recently added a new volunteer center to our location and doubled our cooler capacity to be able to process more fresh produce.

The Kansas Food Bank is the largest hunger relief organization in Kansas. We have been providing hunger relief since 1984. We have taken specific steps to ensure we are meeting the needs of our hungry neighbors.

We partner with hunger relief agencies across the state: food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to reach individuals and families who seek food assistance. In addition the Kansas Food Bank runs several programs geared towards reaching children, families and senior citizens who experience food insecurity. Annually we provide a meal to over 215,000 Kansans who rely on our network.

The Kansas Food Bank began operations in a rented building in 1984, serving just 16 agencies in a single county. We are now serving over 700 hunger-relief partners in 85 counties, with over 14 million meals distributed in FY19/20. We attribute our on-going growth to several moves intended to increase the number of hungry people we help, the ways in which we help, and the amount of food we distribute.

In 1985, the Kansas Food Bank became affiliated with Feeding America (known then as America’s Second Harvest), a national nonprofit that coordinates collection and distribution of millions of tons of food from national corporations that would otherwise be discarded as unmarketable waste.

The Kansas Food Bank works hard to have partner distribution in each of its 85 counties.

Distribution could be a fixed base pantry, mobile pantry site, Food 4 Kids location, summer meal site, senior food box location or a combination of any of those. In many counties we have multiple distribution types to ensure needs are being met.