Services include free groceries and freshly prepared meals for pickup or delivery, online grocery orders, mobile meals, and after-hours food lockers. The River also redistributes rescued food and resources to local partners to increase access while minimizing waste. Since 2006, The River has grown to serve over 4,000 people every week in pursuit of its vision: a fully nourished community. The River Food Pantry believes in the power of social media to present all sides to the issue of food insecurity and encourages a free-flowing conversation between constituents on social media platforms. The River considers this page to be a public forum and reserves the right to republish posts and comments to this page in other communications both offline and online. Even though this page is a public forum, we respect the privacy of people requiring food assistance and we will not republish posts about personal food assistance needs that could be trackable to a specific individual. The River reserves the right to delete comments from external parties if the following occurs:
- Social media posts that contain profanity.
- Social media posts that are negatively commenting or personal attacks on the people we serve, employees of our food pantry, and volunteers.
- Social media posts that contain content that may be reasonably considered offensive, disruptive, defamatory, or derogatory. Examples include, but are not limited to, s*xual comments or images, racial slurs, or other comments or images that would offend someone on the basis of his or her race, color, s*x, religion, national origin, s*xual orientation, age, disability or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
- Social media posts that are not about hunger and food-related issues. We appreciate all of you for taking interest in the issue of food insecurity in Dane County and getting involved with The River.
