About Us
About Share Food Program
Food insecurity is a life-threatening reality for hundreds of thousands of people in and around Philadelphia. With your help, Share Food Program is fighting to change that every day.
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30+ Million
Meals distributed to individuals, families, & food pantries in 2024. With your support last year, Share also:
🍏 Provided 83,000+ boxes of food to seniors through the Senior Food Box Program🍎 Donated over $19,000 worth of produce from our Nice Roots Farm
🍏 Rescued nearly 6 million lbs. of food from waste
🍎 Made 47,000+ free home deliveries
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305,000
The number of children
Share serves through the National School Lunch Program.
Our Fight Against Hunger
Philadelphia has the second highest rate of poverty of any major city in the U.S., and food insecurity is a public health crisis in our community. The ripple effects of the pandemic, slashed emergency benefits, and skyrocketing inflation have only made things even worse. Our network of caring volunteers, dedicated professionals, and generous donors works to bring nourishing food to our neighbors in need.
I am a beneficiary of Share Food Program’s food delivery program. Thank you very much for your continued drop offs. It makes a difference, it really does. I appreciate it. We all do.”
Our History of Compassion
Share Food Program distributes food to hundreds of thousands neighbors in need each month, more than 50% of whom are children and seniors.
The food we distribute comes from many places including: government partners, supermarkets, wholesalers, restaurants, farms and food drives. There are complex logistics and significant funding needs to purchasing, coordinating, storing, packaging and distributing millions of pounds of food each month. Our work and impact is made possible by the generosity of our donors.
Share started in 1986 as a food co-op for communities in need of access to low-cost food in Philadelphia.