Contact Info Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan Website: www.kidsfoodbasket.org Phone: 616-235-4532 Fax:    616-454-9387 Email: kidsfoodbasket@gmail.com Click here to Support KFB

Mission

We exist to ensure that children in our community don't go to bed hungry. Childhood hunger hurts. It denies dignity, lessens human energy, erodes community stability and impairs the potential of children to achieve. To break this cycle of hunger, Kids' Food Basket of greater Grand Rapids is committed to providing healthy, tasty, efficient and cost effective sack suppers to children who are nutritionally at-risk.

As a community based volunteer organization, our volunteers, ages 5 to 95, come from all walks of life to give their time, talent and treasure to end hunger amongst our children. We seek to provide life sustaining meals to those in need and to silence the pain that hunger brings.

History

In 2001, KFB founder, Mary K. Hoodhood, became aware that local school officials were concerned that some of their students were going hungry outside of school. Mary Ann Prisichenko, the principal of Straight School, had been looking for two years for an organization to ensure that her students received adequate nutrition after school when she discovered her students digging through the dumpster looking for food.

The Armen & Patricia Oumedian Family Foundation provided the funding for the Sack Suppers. Working out of a church basement, Kids' Food Basket volunteers began providing the Sack Supper each weekday.

In the beginning, Kids' Food Basket fed 125 children every week day at three schools. Remarkably, in nine years, Kids' Food Basket has grown to feeding more than 4,800 children at 32 schools. On average, 150 community members volunteer at KFB each day and there are nine staff members.

Kids Food Basket continues to grow and none of this would be possible without the support of the community. We appreciate all the hard work and generosity from local volunteers, businesses, and foundations. With your help we are breaking children away from food insecurity, one sack supper at a time.

More Information

For more information on Kids' Food Basket, visit: www.kidsfoodbasket.org