Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Food Programs

Mission: To help eliminate hunger and malnutrition in the four counties we serve in southern New Jersey?Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem.

Programs: The food bank of sj operates a donated food center that distributes food to qualifying not-for-profit organizations and agencies who distribute food to the poor. During 2014 the food bank distributed approximately 10 million pounds of food. The food bank accomplishes this through feed more which is its core program through which the organization solicits surplus food each year from local, regional and national food sources and more than 200 emergency feeding programs access this food daily to meet the food needs of the people living in food insecure households across the 4 counties it serves. The emergency food assistance program is designed to distribute free federally donated food to eligible, needy persons through various agencies. The state food purchase program is funded by the state of new jersey through distribution of funds for the purchase of healthy and nutritious foods to feed people affected by hunger through its participating agencies.