In Reelsville, Indiana, a group of 4-H Junior Leaders is stepping up to help meet a critical need for volunteers. At a recent Gleaners mobile food distribution, 4-H Junior Leaders worked alongside community partners and volunteers to help provide food to local families. While the work involved moving quickly from [...]
On the east side of Indianapolis, Iglesia Tierra Prometida is serving double the number of neighbors since opening nine years ago. "I came to this community in 2017, and I never thought of all the help that this community needed," said Angel Morell, who is the church's pastor. At [...]
When Norma Hernandez first walked through the doors of the Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center’s pantry on Indy's west side two years ago, she wasn't there to give back. She was there because she lost everything. "Two years ago, our house burnt down. To the floor, like everything," Hernandez said. [...]
Kaitlyn Starcher knows the hallways of Stout Field Elementary School by heart. Her father walked them, as did her brother. She, too, learned from the teachers within them, and now her own children do the same, making the elementary school in Wayne Township something closer to a family institution than [...]
Over the last decade, an elementary school where generations of families have walked the same hallways has become a quiet lifeline for dozens of households each month. At Stout Field Elementary School in Wayne Township, a pantry operates not just as a source of groceries, but as a community hub [...]
On a cold morning in Scottsburg, Indiana, cars line up outside the Turning Point Church food pantry for distribution, their rising exhaust mixing with an unwelcome snow. It's weather that would keep anybody inside if they had the choice. Yet, a group of regular volunteers who showed up to hand [...]
The central Indiana hunger relief community came together Thursday, Feb. 21 for the 2026 Hunger and Health Breakfast, hosted by Gleaners and IBJ Media. The breakfast is a time for leaders in health care and hunger relief to discuss the impact these issues have on our state. At this year's [...]
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana released our 2025 Impact Report, highlighting the continued rise in need as neighbors struggled to make ends meet due to inflation, rent increases and stagnant wages. 2025 continued the troubling pattern of rising hunger in our state and a rollback of resources for neighbors facing [...]
At The Elaine Food Pantry at Southeast Community Services, the workday begins long before doors open. Volunteers sort produce, fill online orders and restock walk-in shelves to prepare for the steady flow of neighbors seeking support. For staff, the mission remains simple: meet people where they are, with dignity [...]
Fred Glass, president and CEO of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana said today that, with the disastrous SNAP cutoff looming, Gleaners is redoubling its efforts to feed Hoosiers facing hunger as a result of the government shutdown. “With food insecurity already at its highest rates in a decade,” Glass [...]
