The current economic conditions are forcing more and more familes to seek our help for food.

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the Food Center has had as its mission to provide food from a central community storehouse to needy families and individuals struggling with hunger insecurity.

Since 1974,

40%

21%

families

43,000

we have served since March 2020

of Americans are only one missed paycheck away from poverty

via Prosperity Now

of Denton county residents are hunger insecure

via Serve Denton

via our records!

Survival is a shared burden,

There's a lot of shame around asking for help. Since we've been in school, we're taught that it’s eat or be eaten—survival of the fittest.

But survival is a shared burden, and when institutions fail to meet our needs, we can rely on the values that make us human—the social bonds that hold us together as we provide for each other.

not an individual obligation.

NEED

,

in this time of

We have changed our distribution process to reduce personal contact and protect vulnerable individuals while staying true to our mission to help relieve hunger insecurity in our northern Denton county service area.

Watch this quick video by clicking on "NOURISHING NEIGHBORS DCFC" to learn more about how we've adapted!

New Procedures