After a 6-month search, the Board of Directors is pleased to announce the selection of Fred Glass as the new President & CEO for Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. He will succeed John Elliott upon his retirement on September 30. “The interest in this incredibly important leadership position was tremendous,” said Chad Mayer, Gleaners’ Board [...]
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana has received a $150,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation to purchase a new tandem-axle refrigerated box truck. Gleaners has nearly doubled its pre-pandemic distribution of meals to more than 82 million meals in 2021. This increased distribution has strained Gleaners’ aging fleet of box trucks, which already log [...]
Statement on Passage of HB 1001 The Senate passage today of HB 1001 with a devastating provision to end SNAP Emergency Allotments at the end of the current health emergency on April 16, 2022 could not have come at a worse time for our neighbors facing food insecurity. The passage of this bill comes at [...]
Campaign launched July 2, 2020 with goals to increase awareness of food insecurity, drive engagement through advocacy and volunteerism, and inspire financial gifts. Anthem Foundation issued a challenge match of $1 million with a goal to raise funds to provide the equivalent of 10 million meals. Generous public response exceeded expectations, raising $1,857,450 in gifts [...]
AquaBounty Technologies, Inc.,a land-based salmon farming pioneer, is donating approximately 30,000 pounds of its conventional Atlantic salmon to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. AquaBounty raises Atlantic salmon in carefully monitored freshwater indoor tanks at its farm in Albany, Indiana. As COVID-19 reduced the demand for salmon in the food service channel, specifically in restaurants and [...]
Are you confused about the dates you see on foods? Best buy....use by.....sell by.....what does it all mean? Best By date labels are about overall quality of an item. This date is the manufacturer's promise that, when stored properly, an unopened item will retain its freshness and full nutritional value until this date. After this [...]
Lilly Endowment Inc. has provided $1.364 million to proceed with an urgently needed, 40,000-square-foot expansion of its refrigerated storage capacity needed for nutritious, perishable food distribution. The balance of the funding is provided by the Federal CARES Act via the Indiana Department of Health. In 2019, nearly half the food distributed by Gleaners Food Bank [...]
