Emergency Community Food Pantry of Franklin County Celebrates More Than 40 Years of Community Support
Since 1981, the Emergency Community Food Pantry of Franklin County has provided food support to community members through a vital network of churches, community organizations and social service agencies. In the past 10 years alone, more than 1,710,000 meals have been distributed to those experiencing hunger.
The Emergency Community Food Pantry of Franklin County is entirely volunteer run, from administrative tasks to the daily work of filling food requests. The food distributed is paid for by donations and grants, donated by local farmers, and collected from local food businesses.
Requests for food assistance are submitted by partner organizations and churches and vetted by the Resource Office for Social Ministries. The Emergency Community Food Pantry could not do its work without ROSM’s administrative support and the work of its many partner organizations. We are especially thankful to the partners who accept food applications from anyone in Frankfort and Franklin County: Buck Run Baptist Church, Capital City Christian Church, First Christian Church, Hillcrest Baptist Church, Memorial Baptist Church, Point Community Church, Salvation Army and Simon House. Anyone in need of food can contact one of these organizations to be connected to the Emergency Community Food Pantry’s services.
True to the original vision of the Emergency Community Food Pantry by social-service professionals Jane Quire, Terri Fadse and Allice LeMaster in 1981, the organization distributes one week’s worth of meals to individuals and families as requested. Additionally, families with very young children may receive vouchers to purchase groceries from Save-A-Lot and, since 2019, from the Franklin County Farmers Market. More recently, the Emergency Community Food Pantry has expanded outreach with mini-meal distributions to families through the Backpack Snacks Program, a fresh-food “prescription” program with the Franklin County Health Department and Mission Clinic, and annual neighborhood food drop-offs, bringing fresh and packaged foods into areas with high levels of food insecurity.
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We invite you to join our team in any way you can. Please see our web page How You Can Help above.
You can begin to help feed your neighbors by joining one or both of the following free donation programs below. When you shop at either location, Kroger and Amazon will donate cash to the Food Pantry. It will cost you nothing! and it will help us buy groceries.
The Emergency Community Food Pantry of Franklin County is proud to receive support from the United Way of the Bluegrass.