Philabundance

What they do

Philabundance is the largest food bank in the Philadelphia region — a 1984-founded nonprofit serving 9 counties across Southeastern [[poconos|Pennsylvania]] and Southern New Jersey, working with 350+ community partners. Part of the Feeding America network.

Scale of need: nearly 700,000 people in the service area experience food insecurity.

Programs

• Fresh for All — free-produce distribution at 8+ neighborhood sites (Camden, Glassboro, Houseman Recreation Center, Paulsboro, Pennsport, Souderton, Upper Darby, Abundant Life Fellowship in Edgewater Park, and others). Each site distributes [[fresh-produce|fresh produce]] regularly to households without income qualification.
• Philabundance Community Kitchen — 16-week culinary training and life-skills program for adults working toward food-industry employment
• Healthy Pantry Initiative — helps food pantries upgrade to fresh-produce-and-healthy-options inventory rather than shelf-stable only
• Good Food Policy — advocacy and policy work
• Food rescue — distribution of surplus food from retailers, farms, and producers

Founding principle

The organization was founded on the principle that healthy food should not be wasted while people go without meals. The dual [[mission-district-sf|mission]] (“drive hunger… today and end hunger for good”) sits between emergency-distribution response and structural policy work.

Why it’s listed

Philabundance is a structural piece of the regional food economy that [[directory|the directory]]‘s knowledge-care tier exists to recognize. The Fresh for All sites alone show up as 8+ directory entries; [[directory|the directory]] recognizes the organization at this level so individual sites can reference it via operated-by relations.

Fresh for All sites in the directory

• [[fresh-for-all-abundant-life-fellowship]]
• [[fresh-for-all-camden]]
• [[fresh-for-all-glassboro]]
• [[fresh-for-all-houseman-recreation-center]]
• [[fresh-for-all-paulsboro]]
• [[fresh-for-all-pennsport]]
• [[fresh-for-all-souderton]]
• [[fresh-for-all-upper-darby]]

See also

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• Shares approach with: [[food-sovereignty]]
• Member of: [[organization]]
• Contained by: [[schuylkill-valley]]
• Operates: [[fresh-for-all-abundant-life-fellowship]] · [[fresh-for-all-camden]] · [[fresh-for-all-glassboro]] · [[fresh-for-all-houseman-recreation-center]] · [[fresh-for-all-paulsboro]] · [[fresh-for-all-pennsport]] · [[fresh-for-all-souderton]] · [[fresh-for-all-upper-darby]]

Sources

• Philabundance website

Related concepts: [[food-sovereignty]].

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A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[schuylkill-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].