No one should ever have to experience hunger, yet Arkansas ranks #1 in the nation for food insecurity. Roughly one in five residents, equivalent to an estimated 567,110 Arkansans, live with the uncertainty of not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Our Food For Families Program focuses on connecting our partner agencies with local, state, and national resources with food and funds to strengthen their programs, ultimately enabling them to serve their community better. To do this, we:
- Work to provide access to healthy and nutritious food to families;
- Partner with over 400 agencies that include community pantries, meal programs, and shelters across 33 counties;
- Provide mini-grants opportunities to build agency capacity that can serve as food credits and/or purchase equipment;
- Conduct Foodbank University training sessions to improve pantry services through various best practices topics.
- Design and implement new program initiatives to tackle barriers to food security
