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 [...]
Dear Senators Young and Banks: I write on behalf of the over one million Hoosiers facing food insecurity, as well as the rest of us fortunate to not be, to respectfully and emphatically ask you to vote against the budget reconciliation bill before the Senate, which would cut $300 billion [...]
At Love Community Center in the heart of Rush County stands a place where compassion meets purpose: a space lovingly built by and for the community it serves. Darilyn Bedel helps manage the food pantry at Love Community Center and remembers when the vision for the community center first took [...]
Fred Glass, president and CEO of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, warned today that: “Proposed legislation now making its way through Congress would create a needless, self-inflicted humanitarian and economic disaster for Indiana and the country, harming not only those of us facing hunger, but all Americans.” Last week, the [...]
