10/25/2026
We are so grateful to those businesses and individuals who are helping us end hunger in our community. The Statesboro Food Bank is not fully staffed; there is no development director, grants writer, advancement vice president, not even any secretaries to write letters of request or thank you notes. Our director is busy managing our daily resources and planning for client needs; telling our story to potential donors is on her mind but she just cannot often find time in her hectic days. Our Board, all busy business people, also help remind their businesses, family and friends. They provide a growing foundation.
But the day to day reality is that if our community, and we serve an eight county community, is not proactive in helping us to serve our mission, we will fail. And failure is not an option when it comes to adequate food for our children, seniors, disabled, and homeless.
So we want to thank the many of you who have stepped up, many out of the blue, with no requests, just knowing the expanding need. Many of you do not know it, but two things bring tears to our director: the despair heard in stories of deprivation told by parents, widows and homeless, and opening an unexpected envelope that buys another pallet of pasta or order of beans or cases of milk. Or pays the light bill so the 15 freezers and 12 coolers keep working to keep our food safe and fresh.
We thank you, those of you who often we do not know, those of you who give on impulse, those of you who give from the heart, those of you who gather colleagues, friends and family, work mates to give. We are especially grateful for those of you who know your gift did not "fix it" - that ending hunger is an every day challenge, an every week, every month challenge. We are so very grateful to you all.
And for the many who do not give because they simply haven't been asked, let this be that ask. We need your help: 3700 families helped in September with weekly meal boxes. October will be close to 4000. Over 40,000 families helped since July 1 over the long hot summer. Since July 1, over 4000 have had free hot lunches in the Sunshine Cafe. We get vital help from hundreds of volunteers every week, this past week from AgSouth, Great Dane, Downtown Rotary, GSU Golf team althletes, clubs and sororities/fraternities, several churches, recovery houses and community service high school and college students!
The Food Bank is a 501c3 since its 1987 request to the IRS
Contributions can be personal, through your financial institution, with your club or Sunday school class or from your church or business. If you need support documents for a business please ask at [email protected]
We are located at
506 Miller Street for those of you who want to volunteer or see what we do.
Our mailing address is POBox 543,
Statesboro, 30459
www.statesborofoodbank.org
Our Fall/Winter hours have expanded:
Monday and Thursday: 8 am to 5 pm
Tues., Wed. and Friday 8 am to 4 pm
Saturday: 8 am to 1 pm
We are so very grateful to those of you who help us help so many. 💝
