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Hunger Relief AGENCIES
Gleaners Food Bank's mission is to end hunger by engaging individuals and communities to provide food for people in need. 501(c)(3) not-for-profit hunger relief programs, including food pantries: soup kitchens: emergency shelters and residential care centers utilize Gleaners. Any IRS-certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that feeds the ill, needy or infants at no cost to the client may apply for service from the food bank.
Click on the link below for a full listing of Gleaners' member agencies.
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Primary Constituency
The nearly 400 agencies served by Gleaners collectively serve approximately one-quarter million people annually. The most recent demographics available come from a 2010 national study called “2010 Hunger Study,” commissioned by Feeding America and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. It found that Hoosiers served by Gleaners' member agencies in central Indiana are in the following groups:
- 54% are children under 18 years old
- 7% are age 0 to 5 years old
- 7% are elderly
- 45% are white
- 46% are African-American
- 9% of other ethnic groups
- 24% of households include at least one employed adult
- 27% of all adults had lost their jobs in the previous 11 months
- 63% emergency pantry clients are female
- 55% of emergency kitchen clients are male
- 94% of clients at emergency food programs are US citizens
- 71% of emergency food clients in Gleaners service are registered voters
- 10% of emergency food clients are homeless
- 78% of all client households have household income at or below the federal poverty level