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What the Food Bank of Delaware is
The Food Bank of Delaware, a member of Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization, is a statewide nonprofit agency whose mission is a community free of hunger. Originally founded in 1981 as the Food Conservers, Inc., the Food Bank of Delaware has provided food assistance for three decades to Delawareans at risk of hunger.
How the Food Bank of Delaware is working to eliminate hunger here at home in Delaware
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Providing low- and no-cost food to qualified feeding programs throughout the greater Delaware region
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Informing the greater Delaware community about hunger issues and food insecurity
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Mobilizing support for anti-hunger efforts
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Training and empowering under- and unemployed individuals to fill needed positions within the food service industry
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Developing and implementing statewide feeding programs to assist low-income families, individuals and children
Working with their network of community agencies
Each week, more than 17,500 people, including 7,700 children, rely for emergency food assistance on the Food Bank of Delaware and its network of 440 hunger-relief program partners:
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Who the Food Bank of Delaware helps
The Food Bank serves more than 17,500 Delawareans in any given week:
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43 percent of households served by the Food Bank include at least one working adult
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44 percent of household members served by the Food Bank are children under 18 years old
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72 percent of clients served have incomes below the federal poverty level and are food-insecure
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15 percent of clients served are homeless
Total amount of food the Food Bank distributes annually: approximately 12 million pounds!
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