History

In 2001, Kids' Food Basket's founder, Mary K. Hoodhood, became aware that local school officials were concerned that some of their students were going hungry outside of school. Mary Ann Prisichenko, the principal of Straight School, had been looking for two years for an organization to ensure that her students received adequate nutrition after school when she discovered her students digging through the dumpster looking for food.

Seed funding was provided for the sack supper items.  Working out of a church’s basement, KFB volunteers began providing the sack supper service each weekday.

In the beginning Kids' Food Basket fed 125 children every week day at three schools. Remarkably, in nine years, Kids' Food Basket has grown to feeding over 2,300 kids at 20 schools. On average, 85 community members volunteer at KFB each day and there are four full-time staff members.

Kids' Food Basket continues to grow, and none of this would be possible without the support of the community. We appreciate all the hard work and generosity from local volunteers, businesses, and foundations. With your help we are breaking children away from food insecurity, one sack supper at a time.

We serve over 2,300 sack suppers each weekday.

The cost to make each sack supper is $0.90.

Kids' Food Basket is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. Our tax-id number is 04-3760991.

Updated: January 2010