Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the Texas Panhandle.

Founded in 1982, High Plains Food Bank (HPFB) is a nonprofit organization serving as the clearing house for collection, storage, and distribution of donated and purchased grocery products, providing aide to the top 29 counties in the Texas Panhandle. HPFB partners with local agencies, including churches, senior centers, child care facilities, halfway houses, soup kitchens, Kids Cafes, emergency pantries, shelters, and other nonprofits to help end local hunger.

Many families in the Texas Panhandle are food insecure. As a member of the Feeding America network, HPFB can provide 14 meals worth of food for every dollar donated. Sources of donated food include the USDA’s Emergency Food Assistance Program, local food drives, grocery stores, restaurants, processing plants, ranchers, feedlot operators and individual donors. In addition, HPFB purchases food to supplement the warehouse supply in order to provide the variety of foods highly needed for balanced nurtrition.

The need is real, and your help is vital. Please consider helping solve local hunger by making a one-time or recurring donation on our secure donation page.

How We Serve

First, we provide food, a basic need. We delivered 9.04 million pounds of food in 2020 to the 29 counties we serve. This is a tangible way you can see what we are doing at the Food Bank. It has been a long-standing tradition since our inception to deliver shelf-stable and fresh foods to the people that need them. We distribute the food through our over 150 agencies that work hand in hand with us to pinpoint need in their communities. We deliver this basic need to people who need help getting back on their feet.

Second, we help people through the sometimes confusing process of applying for food stamps. This is a service we provide in order to keep as many as possible from facing food insecurity. The problem of not knowing what resources are available is not a reason anyone should go hungry. But we don’t stop there, we help parents with applications for many programs available for their children including SNAP. This is a tool that we are proud to offer, because the end benefit is having the resources to ensure your family is taken care of.

Thirdly, we educate the public on making healthy inexpensive food choices for their families. We teach children and adults about nutrition and why it’s important to eat wisely. If we just delivered food to families, we would only meet the current need, but because we teach them how to choose healthy completely affordable options, we are able to give them the resources to sustain themselves. That is our initiative; teaching others to fish, while providing them with the fish they need right now.

Some day very soon, we hope there will not be a person who struggles with food insecurity. Until that day, we will help alleviate hunger in The Panhandle.

Counties We Serve

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