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- EIN 47-0640293
- (402) 466-8170
- 1221 King Bird Rd Lincoln NE 68521-3008 USA
- www.lincolnfoodbank.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Food Programs
Mission: The food bank of lincoln, inc. Is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska. The food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting, storing, and distributing donated and purchased food to non-profit partner agencies who re-distribute such food to low-income clients in their local areas. The food bank operates as a single program but uses several methods for distribution: operations, child hunger, and snap outreach.
Programs: The operations department partners with other agencies to distribute food via mobile pantries, agency orders and pre-packed bags. This department also manages the physical handling of food products through the distribution center. Mobile pantry distributions occur twenty times within a month at eight different lincoln locations. Rural mobile pantry distributions take place monthly in fifteen rural counties.
the child hunger department operates the backpack program and four high school pantries. The backpack program provides food-filled backpacks to students in need of food over the weekend. The program sends over 3,500 backpacks home to students on friday afternoons in 36 lincoln public schools, 5 lincoln catholic schools and 39 rural communities in southeast nebraska.
the snap outreach program at the food bank of lincoln provides food stamp information and application assistance, as another means of providing meals to the communitys most vulnerable individuals and families.
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