Donate Food

Thanksgiving is a great time for sharing, but donating food throughout the year is one of the most simple and direct ways you can positively impact the lives of food insecure residents in DC. Below is a list of organizations in DC currently accepting food donations or organizations that can help get food donations to the right place.

Arlington Food Assistance Center

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Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) is a community-based non-profit that provides supplemental groceries to residents of Arlington in need. AFAC remains dedicated to its simple but critical mission of obtaining and distributing groceries, directly and free of charge, to people living in Arlington who cannot afford to purchase enough food to meet their basic needs.

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Bethesda Cares

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Bethesda Cares Is a Community Outreach Program for the Homeless. Our mission is to respond with compassion and creativity to help the homeless and persons in need in the community and to help prevent impending homelessness in Montgomery County.

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Bread for the City

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The mission of Bread for the City is to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.

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Capital Area Food Bank

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The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in DC, MD, and VA, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.

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CaretoFeed

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The Care to Feed Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing food security in our community, while reducing waste in the restaurant industry. Care to Feed seeks to inspire local restaurants, grocers, and caterers to adopt its proactive and innovative approach to food recovery that redirects surplus meals headed to landfills to our neighbors in need.

CaretoFeed

Community Food Rescue

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Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.

Community Food Rescue

DC Central Kitchen

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DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.

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Feeding America

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The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.

Feeding America

Food and Friends

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The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.

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Food Recovery Network

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Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.

Food Recovery Network

Food Rescue US

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Food Rescue US is committed to ending American food insecurity by directly transferring fresh, usable food that would have otherwise been thrown away from restaurants, grocers and other food industry sources to food insecure families throughout the U.S. Food Rescue US uses an app that seamlessly connects food donors, volunteer food rescuers, and receiving agencies. Whatever role you play in the movement, getting healthy food to hungry people has never been simpler.

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Manna Food Center

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Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.

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Martha’s Table

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For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.

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Maryland Food Bank

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The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf

Maryland Food Bank

Miriam’s Kitchen

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Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.

Miriam’s Kitchen

N Street Village

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N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.

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Shepherd’s Table

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We provide basic human services to men and women experiencing homelessness in our community. This includes supper 7 nights/wk + brunch on weekends!

Shepherd’s Table

SOME (So Others Might Eat)

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SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.

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Thrive DC

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Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Thrive DC

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