Agency Details:

Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf

The Chittenden Food Shelf works to alleviate hunger by feeding people and cultivating opportunities.

Description:
The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf is the largest direct service emergency food provider in Vermont serving over 11,000 people each year. The food shelf provides a five-day supply of groceries once per month on-site and through a delivery program for people who are homebound. In addition, the food shelf operates the County’s foremost soup kitchen serving hot meals Sunday through Friday. During the summer school vacation period, the Chittenden Food Shelf serves brown bag lunches for children and for people who are homeless. Volunteers help sort and distribute food, cook and clean, and capture and deliver food. For example, the Angel Food Project, the food shelf’s food rescue program coordinated solely by volunteers, captures food from supermarkets and distributes the rescued food to smaller non-profit agencies throughout Chittenden County. The UVM Food Salvage Program is a weekly Sunday dinner cooked and served by volunteers from the UVM Department of Student Life Community Service Program. New programs being introduced include a culinary job training program entitled Community Kitchen (a partnership with the Vermont Foodbank), and Campus Kitchen (a UVM Student Life project designed at capturing food from campus cafeterias).

Contact people:

Vesna Juric-Orlic, Volunteer Coordinator, (802) 658-7939 #24, (email) Rob Meehan, Executive Director, (802) 658-7939 #22, (email) Alice Anton, Homebound Grocery Delivery Coordinator, (802) 658-7939 #25, (email)

Office fax number: (802) 860-3663

Address:

228 North Winooski Ave. Burlington, VT 05401 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.feedingchittenden.org

Miscellaneous Information

1. What target populations does your agency serve?
	Low income or food insecure families and homeless individuals.
3. How many paid staff (FTE) do you have?
	9
The organization's main phone number is
	(802) 658-7939
4. Please indicate your organization type:
	Independent 501 (c)3
How many clients do you serve annually?
	In FY '07 we served groceries to 1765 households each month! That's about 16,000 individuals served each year.
Volunteers for this agency can serve in these county(s):
	Chittenden County

Last updated on September 22, 2009