ABOUT HARVESTERS

Harvesters mission is to feed hungry people today and work to end hunger tomorrow.

They are a regional food bank serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and northeastern
Kansas. Harvesters provides food and related household products to more than 620 not-for-profit
agencies including emergency food pantries, community kitchens, homeless shelters, childrens
homes and others. They also offer education programs to increase community awareness of hunger
and teach about good nutrition.

Harvesters main facility is located in Kansas City, Missouri at 3801 Topping Ave. Harvesters also
operates a second facility in Topeka, Kansas at 215 E. Quincy St.

Harvesters is a certified member of Feeding America, a nationwide network of more than 200 food
banks. In 2011 Harvesters was Feeding Americas Food Bank of the Year. We are a registered

HOW IT WORKS
1. Harvesters develops local partnerships with growers,
processors, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and
restaurants. The food bank encourages them to donate,
not dump. Local businesses, churches, schools and civic
organizations also donate non-perishable groceries through
community food drives for Harvesters.
2. Harvesters transports donated food and groceries from
local donors or from national donors affiliated with Feeding America to the Harvesters warehouse.
3. Volunteers help Harvesters sort and repackage donated
items, which are stored using safe food handling practices,
and then distributed to member agencies.
4. Donations are given to people in need at food pantries,
community kitchens, senior centers, homeless shelters and
other programs across our region.

501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

Harvesters also is one of five regional disaster relief staging sites for Feeding America. They
continually store a supply of food, water and cleaning supplies that can be sent to a disaster site on
short notice.

HUNGER HAS NO BOUNDARIES

In Harvesters 26-county service area, one in seven people is food insecure. Food insecurity means
that a person or household may have food today, but does not know if there will be food tomorrow or

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enough food for everyone in the household. In Harvesters service area:

or event. If you represent a nonprofit organization, learn more about becoming a Harvesters agency.
374,660 people are food insecure and missing an estimated 65.6 million meals annually.
15.1 percent of people in our region, or one in seven, is food insecure.
39 percent of the food insecure population does not qualify for federal nutrition programs such as
SNAP/food stamps, WIC or free and reduced-price school meals. When they need food assistance,
they turn to nonprofit agencies such as those in Harvesters network. These people are typically above
185 percent of the poverty level, or $44,123 for a family of four.

Children are often among those most in need of food. In Harvesters service area:

123,220 children are food insecure.

20 percent of children under age 18 in our region, or one in five, is food insecure.
41 percent of the food insecure children live in households that do not qualify for federal nutrition
programs and often must rely on charitable food assistance programs.