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Every $1 donated to Ozarks Food Harvest provides 3 Meals.

By rescuing, growing and obtaining food, The Food Bank distributes over 1.7 million meals per month to children, families and seniors facing hunger.

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Weekend Backpack Program

Weekend Backpack Program

The Food Bank’s Weekend Backpack Program provides children facing hunger with a bag of nutritious, child-friendly food to take home every weekend of the school year when they might otherwise go without.

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After-School Food

The After-School Food Program

During the school year, Ozarks Food Harvest sponsors local after-school sites through federally funded programs that help provide nutritious meals to children when they’re not at school. Sponsored sites offer meals to children at a variety of community locations where kids are already gathering like Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCA’s, churches and schools.

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Summer Food

The Summer Food Program

Children who rely on school meals during the school year are also at risk of hunger during the summer months. Ozarks Food Harvest sponsors local summer kids’ sites through federally funded programs that help provide nutritious meals to children when they’re not at school.

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Mobile Food Pantry

The Mobile Food Pantry Program

Ozarks Food Harvest’s Mobile Food Pantry program delivers groceries directly to towns where food assistance is scarce. Product is served off a truck to families and seniors facing hunger in just a couple hours. These distributions remove barriers to food assistance like limited storage at our partner charities and transportation issues.

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Senior Food

The Senior Food Program

Ozarks Food Harvest partners with senior centers, churches and food pantries to distribute more than 4,000 boxes of USDA food to income-eligible seniors every month. Senior Food Boxes are assembled by volunteers at our distribution center and delivered to partner charities who serve local seniors directly.

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SNAP

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Ozarks Food Harvest provides application assistance to individuals applying for SNAP benefits. Applying to SNAP can seem daunting and complicated, especially when people are already facing tough times. Our SNAP outreach coordinators remove this barrier so our neighbors can access the food they need.

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Retail Pick-Up Program

The Retail Pick-Up Program

The Retail Pick-Up Program rescues food from local retailers that does not meet standards for retail sales, but is still safe for consumption. This program diverts hundreds of truckloads of food from ending up in landfills and distributes it to our neighbors facing hunger.

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Full Circle Gardens

The Food Bank's Garden & Glean Team Program

Full Circle Gardens increases our community’s access to fresh produce by growing fruits and vegetables at our Food Bank Farm, gleaning excess crops from local farms, and receiving donations from backyard gardens and farmer’s markets. Full Circle Gardens also offers garden education opportunities to increase local food sources in our community.

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I make sure the kids have food. Sometimes my husband and I go days without eating so that the kids will.

Rebecca, age 34

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