Mobile School Pantry
Distributing food to kids and their families at local elementary schools.
Utah Food Bank’s Mobile School Pantry program complements both school meal programs and our other childhood hunger programs. It provides a cost-effective food distribution point for children and their families at the end of the school day in a safe and trusted environment—the school.
Each month during the school year, our truck arrives on the school property, where Utah Food Bank staff and volunteers assist students and their parents.
Mobile School Pantry services are available to all students enrolled in the school and their immediate households as well as school faculty. The impact of this program has been astounding—last year, through distribution at 72 school sites, we reached 456,087 individuals, 246,150 of whom were children.
The Mobile School Pantry program approaches childhood hunger with the understanding that children are only truly protected from the pain and anxiety of hunger when their whole family has enough food to stay healthy. This approach makes the Mobile School Pantry program especially effective. Teachers and school administrators report that this holistic approach creates better educational environments and a stronger sense of community among the student body and their families.
If you are interested in volunteering at one of our Mobile School Pantry distributions, please click HERE
A heartfelt thanks go out to all the 2024-2025 Mobile School Pantry sponsors:
- AARP Utah
- Albion Financial Group
- American Express
- Ancestry
- Bergeson Family
- Bread Financial
- C.R. England
- Campbell Companies
- Cedar City Rotary Club
- CoreGiving
- Cyprus Credit Union
- Delta Air Lines
- Discover
- Dominion Energy
- Edwards Lifesciences
- EY
- Fidelity Investments
- Gerald Hawkins Family
- Harmons
- Hilltop United Methodist Church
- Inspire Brands
- Merit Medical
- O.C. Tanner Company
- PwC
- Reckitt
- S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney Foundation
- Smith’s Food & Drug Stores
- Snap Finance
- State Bank of Southern Utah
- Sysco Intermountain
- TAB Bank
- The Leavitt Group
- The Pulmonary Team at University of Utah Health
- Tracy Christman
- University of Utah Health
- Wasatch Global Investors
- Wells Fargo
If you or your business are interested in sponsoring a Mobile School Pantry, please contact Lavine Shapiro at 801.887.1221 or [email protected].