I had the opportunity to volunteer here several times with my family, which was a wonderful way to allow young children to participate in community service and volunteerism. The program is run extremely efficiently, and I was impressed with not only the volume of food they have moving through there, but with the variety of programs they have implemented to get food to the people who need it.
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- EIN 52-1219783
- (757) 627-6599
- 800 Tidewater Dr Norfolk VA 23504 USA
- www.foodbankonline.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Food Programs
Mission: Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.
Programs: Norfolk food distribution - during fy17. The norfolk warehouse and our partner agencies provided over 18,022,858 pounds of food and grocery products (equivalent to 15,019,048 meals) to more than 310,719 individuals in the cities of chesapeake, franklin, norfolk, portsmouth, suffolk, virginia beach and the counties of isle of wight, southhampton, and sussex.
eastern shore food distribution - during fy17. The eastern shore food distribution and our partner agencies provided over 1,143,349 pounds of food and grocery products (equivalent to 952,791 meals) to more than 10,180 individuals on virginia's eastern shore.
child nutrition - during fy17. Our kids cafe site served 178,435 nutritionally-balanced meals and 63,664 snacks to more than 2,200 children in 14 safe and supportive after-school site; plus 17 summer feeding programs throughout southeastern virginia and on virginia's eastern shore. During fy17, our 53 backpack schools distributed 61,062 bags of nutritious food to 3,400 food insecure children before weekends and school breaks.
mobile pantry - is a distribution program that distributes food to individuals at offsite locations in our service area. It is basically a food pantry on the road distributing a variety of products such as dry goods, bread, meat, and produce. During fy17 the foodbank distributed 1,531,727 pounds of food to over 16,166 individuals in the cities of chesapeake, franklin, norfolk, portsmouth, suffolk, virginia beach and the counties of accomack, north hampton, isle of wight, southhampton, and sussex.