The Food GRID

03/10/2026

02/23/2026

The Urbandale Public Library has partnered with Plant-Based Des Moines to host a service project for teens (age 12-17) to address food insecurity in our community.

✅ Members of our community are invited to donate shelf-stable, "meal in a bag" items to help us create three different recipes (see attached flyer and comments for list of ingredients).
✅ Donations will be accepted February 23-March 16 and can be dropped off at the front desk.
✅ Questions can be directed to [email protected].

09/24/2025

09/16/2025

Information about Iowa Community Corps.

07/14/2025

Grace United Methodist Church at 3700 Cottage Grove, Des Moines, has a great Community Fridge. It is clean and well maintained, and they tell us that it sees a lot of traffic. It is on the south side of the parking lot, enter off 38th street between Kingman and Cottage Grove.

Do your thing, community!!! With impending cuts to SNAP, and food pantries already saying that they will not be able to fill in all of those gaps, we need to stick together.

06/22/2025

Thank you to the Waukee Community School District and the Waukee Waves Swim Club for calling us to rescue food from their swim meet this weekend! And a huge thank you to The Supply Hive for helping to coordinate the pick up and delivery of the food!