Who We Are
The Lowcountry Food Bank serves more than 200,000 food-insecure individuals every year through our strong relationships with nearly 300 community partners – a network of food pantries, on-site meal programs, school programs, senior programs, veteran’s groups and shelters. Our dedicated staff works to equitably distribute food across the 10 coastal counties of South Carolina we serve. We provide our partners with fresh fruits and vegetables, shelf-stable food, equipment, nutrition materials and food safety training.
What We Do
Every day, the Lowcountry Food Bank is leading the fight against hunger in our community. Our data and experience indicate that food insecurity remains a serious problem in coastal South Carolina, impacting nearly 13% of our neighbors.
Through partnerships with schools to feed children, preparing nutritious meals for seniors and veterans, empowering parents to make healthy food choices, distributing fresh produce to our neighbors, and working with healthcare partners to address the link between health outcomes and food security, we work with our community to address the root causes of hunger and provide food for those who are food insecure.
Programs include:
Nutrition Initiatives: Lowcountry Food Bank believes that greater access to nutritious food can help break the cycle of hunger and alleviate food insecurity. Learn more.
Adult & Child Hunger Initiatives: Lowcountry Food Bank develops and implements community-based solutions to address hunger, improve food security and provide access to nutritious food. Learn more.
Produce Initiatives: Mobile Pantry food distributions directly serve our neighbors in geographic areas of high need who have low access to other food resources. Fresh for Kids is a mini-farmers market produce distribution model that serves children participating in our Kids Cafe and Summer Feeding programs. Through the Growing Food Locally initiative, Lowcountry Food Bank works with small-enterprise local farms and sources surplus produce to distribute to food-insecure children, families and seniors. Learn more.
Zucker Family Production Kitchen: The Zucker Family Production Kitchen is a full-scale, commercial kitchen that serves as the epicenter for preparing and distributing meals to fight hunger in our community. Learn more.
