Food Bank Of Lincoln Inc

The food bank of lincoln's child hunger programs partner with 124 schools in a 16-county area to distribute food through school food market, school pantry, and backpack programs. The organization also operates a summer food service program, which provides healthy meals to children and teens in low-income areas during summer months when school is not in session. Combined, it is estimated that the child hunger programs serviced 65,000 total households during fiscal year 2025.

The food bank has two full-time snap outreach employees who provide snap application assistance and education and awareness in the food bank's 16-county service area. The snap outreach team connects people to nearly 715,000 meals annually through snap outreach.

The bridges out of poverty training provides educational opportunities to explore the pervasiveness of poverty and offers a common language to improve our work in the community. These trainings are free to community groups, individuals, employers, and donors to provide a deeper understanding of poverty using language, lived experience, and meaningful discussions. The initiative also works with individuals who live in or near poverty through a workshop called getting ahead in a just-gettin' by world to help individuals empower themselves by building a future story that will ultimately serve to strengthen our community.