Food Rescue Program

Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska’s Food Bank started a Food Rescue Program to collect food from area retailers. In the first twelve months of the program, 453,589 pounds of food were collected from area retailers by utilizing the Food Bank’s refrigerator truck which was acquired from a grant provided by Feeding America, the National Food Bank Network. That is an average of 37,800 pounds of food collected monthly.

The Food Bank started an outreach program to distribute the food collected to area shelters, food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers, low income housing authorities and low income individuals participating in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. In the first twelve months of the outreach program, area pantries and shelters received 102,310 pounds to distribute to the people they serve. Volunteers from the Retired Senior and Volunteer (RSVP) Program delivered 46,283 pounds of food to area housing authorities and senior centers to be distributed. The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) delivered 136,366 pounds of food that was distributed as extras to the food packages received by CSFP clients in all twenty-seven counties that Community Action Partnership of Mid Nebraska serves.

A full time position was created to operate the Food Rescue truck and assist with sorting and weighing the product to be reported.

A new freezer will be acquired by summer’s end to help store all the frozen product that is being donated to the Mid Nebraska Food Bank. For more information, please contact Rich Weiss at 308-865-5683 or rweiss@mnca.net