How to Help

There are a lot of ways you can help provide healthy food to families in need. Get started here.

Need Food?

The Food Finder tool can help you find the nearest food pantry or meal site and help you access other resources.


Our Impact

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank is the central distribution hub for our statewide network of member agencies. Through donations, federal commodities and purchases, we distribute healthy, culturally relevant food to the pantries, meal sites, senior programs and school programs that put it in the hands of the Rhode Islanders who need it most.

147

Member agencies across the state receive food from the Food Bank to give to people needing assistance

84,400

Rhode Islanders served each month through our network of member agencies

18.3m

Pounds of food distributed last year

“The Food Bank has helped us in so many ways over the last few years. Each and every day we have hundreds of people coming through our pantry who are struggling between paying bills and keeping food on the table. We’ve seen more and more people come who have never needed food assistance before.”

Ed Crowley, Pantry Director, Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center

Hunger Stats & Facts

Check out our latest fact sheet to learn more about the dire need for food assistance in Rhode Island and how the Food Bank is meeting it.