Our Nourishing Our Neighborhoods program is the core program of Good Neighbors. Through partnerships with local businesses, we bring senior neighborhoods, mobile home communities, apartment buildings, and other communities of vulnerable residents, safe, edible, nutritious food and other essentials to help ensure these residents access to food and other necessities. We pickup surplus, edible food from local businesses, portion that food for each community, and conduct food giveaways in partnership with each community.

Good Neighbors provides food specifically for unhoused individuals through our Food with Dignity program. This helps provide surplus food to residential facilities that have temporary housing for unhoused individuals such as extended stay hotels, respite, foster agencies, group homes, tent cities, rehabilitation facilities, halfway houses and veterans as well as organizations/groups that serve the homeless. Given their unique circumstances, this food is also packaged with any necessities to cook, use, or eat the food that unhoused individuals may not have access to.

Our largest volume program is our Community Feeding the Community program, where we help partner organizations across our service areas provide food and other basic necessities to the populations they serve. We build relationships with local organizations and businesses, coordinate pickup opportunities between the businesses and organizations, and sometimes lend our warehouse as a dropoff point until the organization can come and pick up the food. This program drives over 1 million pounds of food per year to vulnerable individuals across our service areas.

Our newest program is the blessing box program. This program involves building, installing and maintaining Blessing Boxes (also commonly known as Little Free Pantries) in areas of need. Good Neighbors volunteers identify areas of need, install boxes, monitor boxes, seek community support for boxes and restock boxes with food as needed. Good Neighbors also supports other local Blessing Boxes by filling them with food regularly and also providing those Blessing Box Projects or organizations with perishable and frozen food items for local distribution.

Everyone has a role in reducing hunger. In as little as one hour per week, from home or out in the community - you can make a huge impact to reduce food insecurity. From community collection and outreach, to administrative tasks and pantry organization - there is something for everyone! Please fill out the volunteer application today.

Good Neighbors brings food and necessities to our neighbors in senior communities and apartments many times a week! Click the button below to request food for a senior neighborhood near you.