Stories of Hope

Meet Tammy. After 35 years with the Department of Defense, she retired in 2016 but realized she wanted to stay busy. In 2019, she and her husband…

Betty is one of the first to arrive at the Wooster Hope Center on a hot summer morning for a grocery distribution. As a home health aide, she has a…

Life changes as we age. Navigating a new lifestyle and budget as an older adult can be challenging. The Carroll County Council on Aging, a hunger-…

Patrick tries hard to make ends meet. Recently, he visited four different grocery stores while shopping, hoping to find the best deals and stretch…

A unique partnership between the Foodbank and a local health district popped up this spring to better serve families. The Portage County Health…

Some Foodbank volunteers are so hands-on and ingrained in the organization’s work that you may think they’re staff members! Meet Kristen. She was a…

Earlier this year, the Foodbank opened The Venarge Family Food Pantry & Resource Center in its Main Campus in Akron. The pantry has replaced the…

Morris cares about his neighbors. As he boxes up the groceries he received from his local pantry, the person behind him spots a pre-made salad in…

It is a warm, sunny day. A line for the Foodbank’s pop-up pantry begins to form half an hour before the distribution is scheduled to start. Raeana…

We meet Jacqueline on a cold winter morning. It is just below 10 degrees outside — the windchill makes it feel subzero — but school is still in…