Community Locations
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin serves the metro-Milwaukee area including Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, and Waukesha counties. They provide wholesome food to families and individuals facing hunger.
Hunger Task Force's grocery store on wheels, Mobile Market, offers fruits & vegetables, dairy/nondairy milk, meats, cheese, yogurt, and more in food-insecure areas of Milwaukee County Monday-Friday from grocer Piggly Wiggly.
Interchange Food Pantry is a city-wide pantry serving all Milwaukee residents. They believe every community member should have equal access to healthy, life-nourishing foods.
Kinship Community Food Center, formerly Riverwest Food Pantry, engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty.
NourishMKE, formerly Friedens Food Pantry, is the largest network of community food centers in Milwaukee. They provide encouraging spaces to select and prepare free, quality food and explore nutrition and wellbeing.
5 food pantries in Milwaukee County provide 2-to-3-day supplies of emergency food to neighborhood individuals and families. The pantries are supported by various food drives and donations from the Hunger Task Force.
Focused on Children & Seniors
The Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP), locally called FoodShare, is funded 100% by the EPA and provides food buying power at the grocery store through a "Quest" EBT card. Eligibility is based on household income and size.
Hunger Task Force provides infant formula through its emergency food pantry network and strongly encourages enrollment in the Women, Infant and Children’s Program (WIC).
Provides states with cash assistance for non-profit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions. All students may participate in the program once a school is enrolled, but prices and reimbursement rates vary by family income level.
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, locally called Stockbox, is monthly, free food for low-income ($1,632/month) seniors ages 60+ through Hunger Task Force. It includes cereal, milk, vegetables and fruit, pasta/rice, protein, fruit juice, meat, and cheese.
Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) provides eligible families with $120 per child to buy food in the summer. Those income-eligible, able to be directly certified, or categorically eligible for free or reduced-price (FRP) school meals are qualified.
The Women, Infants & Children (WIC) is a federal nutrition program offering education and supplemental nutritious foods. Low-income pregnant women, new mothers, and infants/children up to 5 years can participate at community and childcare centers.