Can someone explain how they work?

Omaha is spending $34 million on a new food bank. Near as I can tell there's no qualification needed. A food bank from Lincoln came down 70 miles to a village near here and a fella that lives in Hawaii part of the year went thru the line twice . Brother and wife was having a picnic in the park with a Grandson and watched. People came up from Kansas to get free stuff. Yesterday in St Mary Kansas a church had cases of goods stacked up on the sidewalk.

Churches seem to have them the most around here. We donate to the one in town fairly regular. There are no "rules" that I know of, its just there if you are in need.

I highly recommend canned goods that a child can open and eat by themselves. Pop-top that doesn't require a can opener.
I was in Lions Club for 20 years and was also the local trash hauler. Lions Club had a food program at Christmas time and lots of food that requires preparation by a parent just doesn't happen. I saw alot of the food thrown in dumpsters if it required effort by the parents.

Thanks for info, sounds like they operate the same just about everywhere.

Another question, should you act on behalf of the church without notifying the church?

I volunteer often at the Lincoln area food bank. Will be there again for an afternoon in about two weeks.
During school year we package up a lot of backpacks full of free food for kids and their families.
Food banks are a critical service for many area residents.
Jim

Omaha paid 7.1 million fir thus property

and demo'd it to build this 105000 Sq ft building

That's bigger than 2 football fields

But Gary, you just don't understand. Spending 37 million is absolutely necessary to be able to efficiently hand out pork and beans.

Actually it’s the cost of keeping people from depending on their relationship with God.

I think it's just bureaucracy doing what bureaucracy does - spend other people's money. Dosen't go deeper than that.

We have a food bank across the street from the sheriffs office in the courthouse the elderly use it but so do the folks that spend their weekends in jail often. It’s a way to waste their money on drugs and alcohol but still eat if they get hungry some sell their EBT cards for cash to buy the same garbage all on your dime.

Had one guy that lived with a disabled woman for her benefit's that was the welfare welcome wagon guy he’d show people the ropes but got his share for his trouble. People found him in their refrigerator a couple times taking food that he helped them get. He ended up breaking into a store to steal beer and found his way to the state pen for a few years.

Not uncommon to see people dress in expensive clothes driving fancy cars getting free groceries from our food bank. I know several volunteers who quit from frustration after seeing this on a regular basis.

That’s a shame.

I thought if you didn’t feed your kids some social worker came and took them away.

Theres a whole culture of people that seek free stuff that travel the country living off of ministerial aid looking for free meals, rooms and lodging from churches and law enforcement agencies. Females with a sad story and children that get a motel room then the males show up and trash the room.

Had a Cali hippie looking for fuel during the ND protest driving a motorhome pulling a trailer with a car on it white guy with dreads a woman and child. That child was like their credit card to get free stuff.

What should happen and what does happen are 2 different things.

They get fed it’s just others paying for it bad habits come first.

it has been a few years since I worked at the one here in Green County that is in Monroe

it is the 3rd Thursday of every month , and anyone can come and get food.

worked with my wife at another one farther out in the county Green Cares, it was a building where they stored the donations and you made an appointment and a volunteer met you there and helped you get a box of food

I have helped sort for a 3rd it is put on by the area churches it used to move church to church but has settled at one that has good access with no stairs.

all of them you come they send you with food

2 of them for sure have people who will help with aid programs like WIC , SNAP , and possibly others. the 3rd may I just never worked that end of it.

all 3 of these the food is donated
the 3rd Thursday used to get a lot of it's meat from stuff that was donated by stores frozen the day or so before best if used by date.
I did work distribution at that one a few times , I saw a lot of people who didn't know how to cook and use that big frozen ham or turkey or roast.
cash donations were turned into staple foods like rice and beans , but very few people knew how to cook dry pintos so they sat often.
people really trended towards items with directions on the box


it always amazes me the vast number of people who can't cook

my youngest is in a Pastry chef program but many classes overlap with the culinary side and the number of people who show up to their first day of culinary school with very very little knowledge on cooking , using a knife and simple things like using a scale to measure ingredients.

I think we have an education issue with cooking knowledge and ZERO reason for it , it isn't the Amish with no smart phone who can't cook it is the person with a vast database of cooking videos in their hand that could teach them to cook nearly anything.

Food bank = big business

Administrators....paid using other people's money ( government money )

Volunteers do the work so Administrators can make bank

Losers take advantage , no different than the Administrators


The Volunteers are the real SUCKERS here


Scam