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Hunger Relief Charities
Gleaners Food Bank's mission is to end hunger by engaging individuals and communities to provide food for people in need. 501(c)(3) not-for-profit hunger relief programs, including food pantries: soup kitchens: emergency shelters: residential care centers and day
care centers utilize Gleaners. Any IRS-certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that feeds the ill, needy or infants at no cost to the client may apply for service from the food bank.
Click on the link below for a full listing of Gleaners' member charities.
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Primary Constituency
The over 400 charities served by Gleaners collectively serve approximately one-quarter million people annually. The most recent demographics available come from a 2001 national study called “Hunger in America 2001,” commissioned by America's Second Harvest and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. It found that Hoosiers served by Gleaners' partner charities in central Indiana are in the following groups:
- 37.3% are children under 18 years old
- 12% are age 0 to 5 years old
- 5.9% are elderly
- 40.1% are white
- 58.5% are African-American
- 1.4 of other ethnic groups
- 44.8% of households include at least one employed adult
- 6.4% are homeless
- 50.6% are male
- 49.4% are female
- 68.1% have annual incomes under $15,000
- 98% are U.S. citizens