About Us

Perhaps you've heard about lines of people waiting in front of the Freestore Foodbank for food baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Each year, we provide holiday meals for more than 37,000 people in the Greater Cincinnati area.

But there's much more to the Freestore Foodbank than holiday food baskets. We provide food and clothing to people who are unemployed, or whose homes have been destroyed by flood or fire. We provide evening meals to hungry children through Kids Cafe. We help people find safe places to live. We distribute donated and surplus food to 450 non-profit agencies in 20 counties across 3 states, who in turn help prevent hunger in their own neighborhoods.

In short, we want to make sure that families aren't forced to choose between buying food and paying rent, taking a sick child to the doctor, or repairing the car used to drive to work.

If you don't believe that hunger in the Cincinnati and tri-state area is a continuing and growing concern, you may be surprised when you click here to view some of the findings of a recent nationwide hunger study.

The Freestore Foodbank was founded in 1971, and serves about 160,000 people in southern Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. The Freestore Foodbank has two divisions, Client Services and the Foodbank..

The FreestoreFoodbank is a registered 501(c)(3) U.S. nonprofit charitable organization.

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