Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana has received a $150,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation to purchase a new tandem-axle refrigerated box truck. Gleaners has nearly doubled its pre-pandemic distribution of meals to more than 82 million meals in 2021. This increased distribution has strained Gleaners’ aging fleet [...]
Statement on Passage of HB 1001 The Senate passage today of HB 1001 with a devastating provision to end SNAP Emergency Allotments at the end of the current health emergency on April 16, 2022 could not have come at a worse time for our neighbors facing food insecurity. The [...]
Are you confused about the dates you see on foods? Best buy....use by.....sell by.....what does it all mean? Best By date labels are about overall quality of an item. This date is the manufacturer's promise that, when stored properly, an unopened item will retain its freshness and full nutritional [...]
Lilly Endowment Inc. has provided $1.364 million to proceed with an urgently needed, 40,000-square-foot expansion of its refrigerated storage capacity needed for nutritious, perishable food distribution. The balance of the funding is provided by the Federal CARES Act via the Indiana Department of Health. In 2019, nearly half the [...]
In a typical year, Gleaners' donors support 228 mobile pantry distributions in 13 counties. As businesses closed and stay-at-home orders were implemented, many of our reliable agency partners found themselves struggling to find volunteers to keep their pantries open. School closures reduced our distribution outlets by 50%. “Food pantries [...]
As the lines at our distributions tripled – and in some cases quadrupled – the number of calls and messages from those with no transportation, or who were ill and quarantining at home, began to increase. People were losing their incomes, and shelter-in-place orders made it difficult for some [...]
When the Indianapolis Public Schools made the decision to close, it was not made lightly. School districts across the state were directing children to stay home after spring break and moving to eLearning. IPS students are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity. Gleaners supports school-based pantries in 25 IPS schools [...]
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit hard in early March, the number of people coming to Gleaners for food assistance tripled nearly overnight. At the same time, we knew that with the direct correlation between food insecurity and health, those children and families we serve would be at [...]
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana is on the fast track to accelerate awareness of food insecurity throughout Central Indiana with its new No One Runs on Empty initiative. The campaign is funded by a $1 million matching grant from the Anthem Foundation and backed by a partnership with Andretti [...]
“Among the many challenges of responding to a pandemic, the ability to distribute fresh, perishable food has been among the most difficult. With many of our traditional partners either closed or reducing distributions, we have a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables and frozen meats to share. As part of [...]
