Programs

29% of households served in Kentucky had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care.

34% of households served in Kentucky had to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel.

Demand for emergency food assistance in Kentucky has increased 84% since 2006.

Last year we distributed 50.9 million pounds of food and grocery products.

We reach 1 in 7 Kentuckians each year.

Our mission is to provide food and quality services to increase the capacity of Kentucky’s Feeding America food banks to end hunger.

Our vision is a hunger-free Kentucky.

One in four of Kentucky’s children lack consistent access to an adequate diet.

Over 700,000 Kentuckians do not always know where their next meal will come from.

Through the Farms to Food Banks program, we purchase produce that would typically be plowed under at the end of the growing season, even though it is fresh and edible, because of a lack of market for it. Our intent is to pay fair prices that help farmers recoup losses while diverting what would have been wasted food to struggling Kentuckians. The produce is distributed free-of-charge through the food bank network.

Kentucky’s cattle ranchers and stockyards have teamed up with the Kentucky Association of Food Banks to fight hunger, one nutritious beef serving at a time. The Kentucky Beef Counts program was established and endorsed by the Kentucky Beef Council to provide a consistent supply of nutrient-rich beef for people facing hunger in Kentucky. Participating farmers donate proceeds from the sale of beef animals to the Beef Counts program. Fifteen livestock markets across the state will forward proceeds from donated beef animals to the Beef Counts program.