Stronghold Food Pantry

09/08/2026

Stronghold's 2026 Pop-Up Pantry Series Continues!

We are heading to Camp Lejeune, NC! 💙

We are so honored to bring The Stronghold Experience to the Camp Lejeune community this October — and we couldn't do it without our incredible team of Ambassadors on the ground!

📅 October 21
📍 Camp Lejeune — location shared during introduction call
📍 In-person event
🕐 By appointment only

Every family attending the event will receive The Stronghold Experience — a full week's worth of fresh groceries, curated to meet your family's needs with dignity and care.

Here's how to register:
1️⃣ Head to www.strongholdfoodpantry.org
2️⃣ Click GET SUPPORT
3️⃣ Select Pop-Up Pantry Support — this is the one you'll want!

Spots are limited.

One more important thing: after you register, our team or your local Ambassador will reach out to book your appointment time. Please keep an eye on your phone — that call is how we confirm your spot and make sure your family is supported.

We're proud to serve the Camp Lejeune Community. 💙

Together we are Stronghold.

09/08/2026

📣 Meet the Tellers — one of our Colorado Springs Ambassador families, and now the 2026 AUSA Volunteer Family of the Year. 🏆

A service member. A military spouse. Two daughters. One family — all in. ✨

A family that shows up together.

Between sports, work, school, and everyday life, they still choose to give back — as a family — the Stronghold way. 💙

🇺🇸 Mary leads our Colorado Springs Ambassador Team with heart and integrity. What began with supporting 50 military families in spring 2025 has grown to 200+ families and 931 individuals served, providing fresh, well-rounded groceries tailored to each family’s needs.

Behind every number is a family met with dignity, compassion, and a community that showed up.

We are so proud to call the Tellers our Ambassadors. 🧡

Congratulations, Teller family. This honor is so deserved!

Stronger Together.

09/07/2026

This Labor Day, we’re thinking about all the hands that carry this nation forward — the service members who carry its weight, the families who serve right alongside them, and the laborers everywhere doing the quiet work of taking care of their own once the uniform, the toolbelt, or the workday comes off.

Today, we honor that work. And we’re proud to help carry some of the load.

See how we support military families: strongholdfoodpantry.org/supportoverview

We are Stronghold. 🇺🇸

09/06/2026

Northrop Grumman just stepped up for military families at Fort Leavenworth with a $5,000 gift toward Food and Nutrition Relief — and the impact is immediate.

That’s fresh groceries. Tailored to each family’s needs. Delivered with dignity and compassion. That’s the Stronghold Experience, and it’s only possible because partners like Northrop Grumman choose to stand with us.

More than 97 cents of every dollar goes directly to military families — so this gift doesn’t just help, it moves.

To Northrop Grumman: thank you for seeing our families and showing up for them.

We are community.
We are dignity.
We are Stronghold. 🇺🇸

09/05/2026

🧡 It’s Hunger Action Month.

At Stronghold, we know that hunger can be a symptom of something bigger: food and nutrition insecurity.

And it doesn’t always look the way we expect.

It can look like a military family working hard, serving our country, budgeting carefully — and still finding themselves with more month than groceries.

It can look like a parent quietly going without so their children can eat.

It can look like choosing the food that will stretch the furthest instead of the food that will nourish the best.

And sometimes, it looks like a child jumping up and down because there are fresh apples to eat. 🍎

To some, an apple is just an apple.

To a family that has had to sacrifice fresh, nutritious food to make ends meet, it can mean so much more.

💙 This is why Stronghold exists.

Because food insecurity isn’t always about having nothing to eat. Sometimes, it’s about not having reliable access to enough of the right food to nourish your family.

This September, is Hunger Action Month — and we’re asking our community to help us see it, understand it, and take action.

Because when we know what we’re looking at, we can do something about it.

We are Stronghold. 🇺🇸



📸 : Photos by Trish Alegre-Smith

09/04/2026

🌟 Yesterday, our friends at Starbucks ☕️ Store #61392 opened their doors to the Stronghold Food Pantry team for a day of connection, community, and planning for a strong finish to 2026 — continuing to stand in the gap for military families.

When we asked if we could gather our team and community members — volunteers, retirees, military spouses, kiddos, and active-duty service members — they didn’t just say yes.

They did one better. ✨

They fueled us with coffee, treats, lunch, and a welcoming place to come together.

Starbucks has consistently shown up for our military community and supported Stronghold in ways both big and small. 💙

Yesterday, we presented their team with a Stronghold Certificate of Appreciation — a small thank you for the many ways they continue to show up for our community.

Thank you, Starbucks, for reminding us that we really are stronger together.

We are Stronghold. 🇺🇸

09/03/2026

It’s Hunger Action Month — and Evergy showed up. 🧡

A huge thank you to the Evergy team at the LaCygne Plant for hosting Grilling Out for Good and collecting a generous donation for Stronghold Food Pantry.

What makes moments like this so meaningful isn’t just the food that was donated. 🇺🇸 It’s the decision to look beyond your own table and make sure military families facing food insecurity have something on theirs.

We are incredibly grateful for the generosity and support of the LaCygne team. Your kindness will make a real difference for the military families we serve.

Thank you for showing up, giving back, and helping us strengthen our community — one family at a time. ❤️

09/03/2026

📣 Have you seen Stronghold Food Pantry around the community and wondered 👀, “What exactly do they do?”

Whether you’ve been following us for a while or you’re just discovering Stronghold, we’d love to meet you!

📌 Join us tomorrow at 1:00 PM at the Starbucks Military Store #61392 in Leavenworth for a little Back-to-School gathering 📚.

☕️ Come grab Starbucks - our treat, meet some of our team, learn more about Stronghold and the work we’re doing, and simply spend a little time with us.

Coffee, Conversation, and Community.

1:00 PM | Starbucks Military Store | Leavenworth, KS

If you’ve been curious about Stronghold, this is a great chance to come say hello. We’d love to see you there! 💙

Stronger Together.

09/01/2026

🧡 It’s Hunger Action Month, and Stronghold Food Pantry is here to stand in the gap for military families facing hunger and food insecurity.

📍 Every week, Fort Leavenworth families can find warm, friendly faces; fresh food; choices that fit their household’s needs; birthday kits; household products; and more.

💙 If you’re a currently serving military family in need of support: visit our website to book your Wednesday Open Pantry appointment.

🔗: https://www.strongholdfoodpantry.org/supportoverview

We look forward to welcoming you!

We are Stronghold. 🇺🇸

08/31/2026