Food Pantries

One in five residents in St. Louis relies on SNAP benefits. That’s over 50,000 residents who are in need of food assistance. The City of St. Louis created a fund to help fill the gap created by the recent pause in the government’s SNAP program.

Partial SNAP payments, grassroots efforts are not enough to fill the gap for 42 million Americans awaiting aid.

AmeriCorps in Belleville and East St. Louis are just two of the latest offices scattered across the country that have been ordered to halt operations.

St. Louis college students turn to campus food pantries amid end of SNAP benefits and rising costs.

Food pantries in the St. Louis region are responding to a growing need. Many people are visiting pantries for the first time because of higher food costs.

The Supplemental Nutrition Education Program (SNAP-Ed) is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and helps SNAP recipients learn how to eat healthy food on a budget. Its employees complain of wages so low that they themselves qualify for SNAP.

Last year, COVID-19 pushed the persistent problem of healthy food access toward crisis levels. The number of meals provided by The St. Louis Area Foodbank, which serves 14 Missouri counties and 12 in Illinois, increased by 53% to nearly 53 million between June 2019 and June 2021, data from the nonprofit show.

An annual online crowdfunding campaign gives St. Louis nonprofits a boost. During the pandemic, fundraising is even more critical.

The Fit and Food Connection now has a permanent location in north St. Louis County to offer food and exercise options for low-income individuals and…

A record donation of produce to more than 80 food pantries and other sites around the state is coming from an unlikely source: the Missouri Department of…