Our Mission: Providing Households with Access to Sufficient, Nutritious Food and Related Resources.
We accomplish this through collaboration, efficient operations, education, and innovative solutions to achieve a hunger-free community in Southeast Michigan.
Headquartered in Detroit, Gleaners serves five Southeast Michigan counties: Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston and Monroe. Gleaners provides food to nearly 400 partner soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, schools and other agencies across the region, and supplements the efforts of those partners by offering direct service drive-up grocery distributions. Gleaners further empowers households with food programs and education to help overcome food insecurity. Every dollar donated provides three meals, and 92 percent of our expenses directly support our neighbors facing hunger.
Child and Adult Care Food Program
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a USDA program which provides healthy dinners to children participating in afterschool programs. Meals must be eaten on site. CACFP helps Gleaners sponsored community sites in partnership with the Michigan Department of Education and the No Kid Hungry campaign.
Our Vision is to End Hunger in Southeast Michigan
Gleaners is committed to distributing nutritious, high-quality food to people in need. In collaboration with our partner agencies, the Feeding America network, and our program partners, Gleaners is driving new solutions to improve the health and well-being of our entire community.
Everyone wins when hunger is solved. When we achieve food security, every positive outcome becomes more likely—from higher graduation rates to increased job retention to better patient health.