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 [...]
Fred Glass, President and CEO of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana said today that Gleaners is proactively working to help federal employees and other Hoosiers being hurt by the government shutdown. “The government shutdown is directly hurting Hoosiers, particularly the military and other federal workers, as well as small businesses, [...]
Fred Glass, president and CEO of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, observed today that the United States Department of Agriculture’s cancelation of the longstanding, bipartisan Hunger Report will deny the American public information it needs and deserves to help meet the call to feed the hungry for the benefit of [...]
In the northernmost reaches of Indiana’s wealthiest county, partners are seeing more demand for food. At the Harbour Shores Church distribution in Cicero, cars roll up an hour ahead of schedule and wait for the Gleaners mobile to start. Central to this distribution are the church’s pastor, Mark Hall, and [...]
We’d like to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth about the work we do every day here at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. It’s a truth that seeps into every part of our work as the largest hunger relief organization in Indiana, from large-scale mobile pantries, school-based pantries, or hunger relief centers [...]
At 1 p.m. on a summer Wednesday afternoon, the heat ripples off the blacktops of Crooked Creek Food Pantry on the north side of Indianapolis. Cars come in off Michigan Road and slowly loop around the back of the building. They can expect to wait about 45 minutes. At the [...]
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana is proud to announce it has been named to Inc.’s 2025 Best Workplaces list, honoring companies that have built exceptional workplaces and cultures that support their teams and their mission. “Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that an organization whose mission is ‘to be a [...]
Fred Glass, president and CEO of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, emphasized today that: "The reconciliation bill moving toward final consideration in the United States Senate would be a disaster for the food insecure, other Indiana workers, and every Hoosier." After the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry proposed [...]
As the cost of living continues to rise across Indiana, The Refuge, a community support center and Gleaners network partner in Greenwood, has seen a notable increase in working families seeking assistance. "The numbers change depending on what's happening in the economy," said Executive Director Kerry Carmichael. "But recently, it's [...]
