Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest Hope has Emergency Food Pantries that give immediate hunger relief to families, individuals and seniors who come to the very doorsteps of our facilities in Florence, Columbia and Greenville in need of food. Although they may arrive with no food at home, after a brief interview process (often just three minutes or less) Harvest Hope’s clients will leave with full shopping carts filled with a balanced and nourishing supply of food to last for at least two weeks.

For Harvest Hope’s Mobile Food Pantries, a fleet of refrigerated trucks directly deliver fresh produce, hi-protein meat and dairy foods, bread, pasta and non-perishable food to remote and isolated communities in South Carolina where food sources are scarce. Harvest Hope works with local faith partners and community leaders to determine sites and coordinate regularly scheduled deliveries into these pockets of poverty.

For so many children who only receive nourishing meals when they are at school, every weekend means two days of hunger. At the end of each school week, Harvest Hope’s BackPack program gives at-risk school children a backpack with enough food to provide seven meals, so they can return each Monday nourished and prepared to learn. Harvest Hope partners with faith leaders and businesses that fill the backpacks each week, who then distribute them to children at their own schools.

Harvest Hope’s Senior Hunger Relief Programs

Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
Through the Commodity Supplemental Food Program , Harvest Hope provides a monthly nutritious hunger relief box to low-income participants, the majority of whom are 60 years of age or older, at selected facilities.

Totes of Love – Harvest Hope’s Signature Senior Hunger Program
Totes of Love is a grant-funded or sponsored program launched by Harvest Hope to meet hunger needs in areas of the Pee Dee not widely covered by the CSFP program. Totes of Love provides a tote bag of nutritionally balanced food to seniors twice a month. Totes of Love was launched in Chesterfield County and currently serves seniors in six counties.

Harvest Hope is the lifeline for agencies sharing our hunger relief mission, and in 2014 partnered with 549 agencies. These agencies receive food from our Agency Distribution departments in our three facilities and then provide across 20 South Carolina counties. Many of these agencies are bringing meals to the most isolated and remote communities in our state, meals that reach into our furthest pockets of poverty. These agencies provide meals at food pantries, family shelters, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, senior care centers, schools and community-based hunger missions.

This program serves Active Duty, Retirees, Veterans, and other military communities, as well as their families

Working together with local law enforcement to meet the needs of hungry people.