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 and provides weekly BackSacks to 4,400 [...]
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 high risk for contracting this virus. [...]
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 Harding Steinbrenner Autosport and NTT INDYCAR [...]
“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 our strategic plan, we made [...]
Elanco Foundation leads challenge with a gift of $400,000, the first from its recently-formed foundation The Heritage Group stepped up and matched that $400,000 gift Corteva Agriscience, the IU Health Foundation, and Telamon have also joined the challenge with financial gifts over and above what was already committed in 2020 Additional Corporate Champions invited [...]
We are always mindful of the important role Gleaners plays in the community, and of the large number of volunteers who are in the building each day. Please know that we are monitoring news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, and it’s potential spread throughout the [...]
Officer Farris and Crimewatch Specialist, Paula Barnes recently delivered 4 Gleaners CARE Bags to a gentleman after seeing his post on NextDoor. The man mentioned he was supposed to go into work on a job, but was never reached back out to and is still short on money. He expressed he was in need [...]
Board meeting was open the public, and included a “year in review” with program impacts, financial updates and future plans under the new strategic plan Eight new board members welcomed Board officers elected Four outgoing board members recognized Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana held its annual meeting on November 21, 2019. At this meeting, [...]
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana distributed a record amount of food this week. Between July 22nd and 26th, more than 1 million pounds of food was distributed through the distribution center, located on the southwest side of Indianapolis. The actual total tipped the scale at 1,078,561 lbs. Of that amount, 540,561 pounds was distributed directly [...]
Feeding America recently released an updated State of Senior Hunger. Did you know that across the United States 1 in 12 seniors are food insecure? In Indiana, 7.9% of seniors are food insecure, with that number jumping to 9.5% in Indianapolis. Indy is home to the 11th worst food insecurity rate for seniors of [...]
