Agencies can host a Mobile Food Pantry virtually anywhere. Product is delivered either in a beverage truck with roll-up bay doors or a straight trailer to the agency’s site of choice. The pop truck will be unhitched and left at the site or with a straight trailer, the product on pallets will be off-loaded at the site for agency distribution.
How to Organize a Mobile Food Pantry...
- Find a location for distribution. This may be the parking lot of your agency, a school, or other easily accessible location within the community- Make sure you have permission first!
- Schedule a day and time for delivery with the Food Bank.
- Announce the time of distribution to your clients and others in the neighborhood who are in need.
- On the day of distribution, have volunteers on-site to help distribute food and record who received it.
- After the food is distributed, dispose of all trash and return pallets and unused boxes to trailer bays.
Complete online registration form
Calendar of Scheduled Mobile Food Pantries
Contact Maggie Wheeler with questions
mwheeler@secondharvest.org or (810) 239-4441