About Us

Mission

To feed the hungry in Wisconsin by obtaining food and related products, distributing them to qualified non-profit programs and providing those programs with appropriate assistance.

• A single mother in Antigo, working at a minimum wage job, who can't afford to pay her rent and buy food for her kids.
• An elderly man in Cudahy, whose Social Security income doesn't cover the cost of his life-saving medication and his food.
• A man in New Berlin, recently laid off, who must choose between paying the electric bill and buying groceries for his family.

What do these people have in common? They all depend on food pantries or meal programs supplied with food by Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.

Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is a food bank. Through our warehouses in Milwaukee and the Fox Valley, we distribute more than 15 million pounds of food a year to more than 1,000 pantries, meal programs and other nonprofit agencies that serve 330,000 people in eastern Wisconsin.

Through our Milwaukee distribution center, we provide food to nearly 800 nonprofit programs in nine counties. Our Fox Valley branch provides food to nearly 300 nonprofit programs in 27 counties.

Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin was founded in 1982 by the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. Since our first donation of a bushel of apples, we have distributed more than 280 million pounds of food to the hungry in our state!