Cultivate Cares Food Network
Supporting food pantries and soup kitchens across the community
Hunger Relief through Food Rescue and Partnerships
Along with our backpack meal program, our team takes rescued food and redistributes it to over 150 pantries, soup kitchens, and other organizations serving our neighbors with food insecurity. Not only do these partnerships allow more food to reach hungry people, but other organizations get to leverage our network and storage facilities making them more efficient as well.
How does it work?
It’s all about logistics!
Cultivate’s refrigerated trucks travel around the community picking up excess food from grocery stores, wholesalers, food distributors, farms, and everything in between. The rescue team takes pride in both food safety and operational efficiency.
Once collected, the food is brought back to Cultivate HQ where it is inventoried, processed, and stored. At this point, the food becomes available via the online ordering platform. Pantries use this platform to see available stock, place orders for items they need most, and set pick-up or delivery times right from their phones or computers.
The result is an easy way for local food relief agencies to address their storage, transportation and bottleneck issues. And that means more nutritious, high-quality, perishable food (free of charge to the pantries) is on the shelves feeding our neighbors.
Making an Impact
Clay Pantry
Cultivate Cares Food Network helped Clay Pantry increase their pounds of food distributed by 728%, reaching an additional 724 families! How are we accomplishing this? Cultivate Cares Food Network (CCFN) is a food pantry support system that provides much-needed perishable food items to food pantries in our three-county area at no cost to the pantries. We are building the much-needed infrastructure and logistics to reroute existing supplies of food from those who have it to those who need it!
728% Increase
in pounds of food distributed by Clay Pantry
724 Families
Additional families reached due to increase in food distribution
$30,000 Savings
Clay Pantry increased their reach while cutting their costs
Why we do what we do
Key Statistics and Metrics
people across the three counties we serve are food insecure
%
of the population of Indiana is food insecure
children in our three counties are living in poverty
Pantry and School Partners
Backpack School Partners
- Career Academy
- Charles Martin Youth Center
- Clay Church Pantry
- Clay Intermediate Academy
- Coquillard Elementary
- Darden Elementary
- Goodwill Excel Center
- Grissom Middle School
- Hannah's House
- Harrison Elementary
- Health Linc
- Ivy Tech South Bend
- Kroc Center
- LaVille Elementary School
- Lifeline
- Madison STEAM Academy
- McKinley Elementary
- Monroe Primary Center
- Navarre Middle School
- Notre Dame Graduate School
- Paramount School of Excellence
- Resurrection Lutheran Academy
- SALT Program
- SBCSC Adult Education
- St. Adalbert's Elementary
- St. Joseph County Public Library
- Warren Primary Center
- Washington High School
- Wilson Primary Center
Cultivate Cares Food Network Partners
- Abundant Faith Family Ministries
- Aids Ministry
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
- Apostolic Temple Village
- Beacon Health System
- Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation
- Brick of Hope Ministries
- Broadway Christian Parish
- Camp Millhouse
- Catholic Charities
- Center for the Homeless
- Christ Temple Apostolic Church
- Christ the King-St Vincent de Paul
- Clay Church Pantry
- Clubhouse of St Joseph County
- Davis Foundation
- Devine Faith Ministries
- Downtown Soup Kitchen
- El Campito Child Development Center
- Feed a Friend
- First United Methodist Church
- For the Good
- Gethsemane Church of God
- Greater New Jerusalem Mission Baptist Church
- Hannah's House
- HEAL
- HealthLinc
- Heroes Camp
- Hope Avenue - Oaklawn
- Hope for the Hungry
- Hope Ministries
- Hopewell Baptist Church
- Indiana Health Center
- Ironwood Pentecostal Church Food Pantry
- IUSB - Titans Feeding Titans
- Ivy Tech/IPI School
- Keller Park Church
- Kingdom Business International Ministries
- Lakeville United Methodist Church
- Lasalle Park Homes
- Legacy Steps Pantry
- Life Treatment Center
- Lifeline Youth & Family Services
- Little Flower Catholic Church
- Lydick United Methodist Church
- Mac Food Pantry
- Maranatha Missionary Baptist Church
- Miami Hill Apartments
- Miami Village Church
- Michiana Christian Academy
- Miracle Life Foundation
- Mishawaka Food Pantry
- Motels 4 Now
- New Carlisle Food Pantry
- Northeast Neighborhood Center
- Oaklawn Properties - Oaklawn
- Oaklawn Psychiatric Center - Oaklawn
- Oliver Apartments - Oaklawn
- Our Lady of the Road
- Recovery Cafe - Oaklawn
- River Bend Cancer Services
- River Park United Methodist Church
- Robertson's Apartments
- Robinson Community Learning Center
- Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Salvation Army - St Joseph/Kroc Center
- South Bend Housing Authority
- Southgate Food Pantry
- St Vincent de Paul - St Joseph Parish
- St. Adalbert & St. Casimir
- St. Augustine Catholic Church
- St Joseph County Health Dept - Mishawaka
- St Joseph County Health Dept - North East & West
- St Joseph County Health Dept - Rum Village
- St Joseph County Health Dept - Walkerton / N. Liberty
- St Joseph County Health Dept - West Side
- St Joseph County Public Library
- St. Margaret’s House
- St. Paul Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
- St. Paul Lutheran Church
- St. Paul's Memorial Church
- St. Pius X Catholic Church
- St. Vincent de Paul Society Center
- Storehouse Food Pantry
- Take Heart Inc.
- The Grace Place
- Transformation Ministries
- The Walorski Family Foundation
- Village Food Pantry
- Vineyard Community Center
- West Side Church of Christ
- Youth Services Bureau of St Joe County
- YWCA
Backpack School Partners
- Baugo Community School
- Boys & Girls Club Goshen
- Bristol Elementary
- Chamberlain Elementary
- Child & Parent Services
- Cleveland Elementary School
- Concord South Side
- Concord West Side
- Eastwood Elementary
- Elkhart Academy
- Family Resource Center
- Goshen Health
- Goshen Intermediate School
- Goshen Junior High
- Heart City Health
- Mary Beck Elementary
- Mary Daly Elementary
- Mary Feeser Elementary
- Model Elementary
- Monger Elementary
- Nappanee Elementary
- North side Middle School
- Northwood Middle School
- PACE Preschool
- Parkside Elementary School
- Prairie View Elementary School
- Premier Arts Academy
- Pride Academy
- Riverview Elementary
- Roosevelt STEAM Academy
- School Without Walls
- St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School
- Wakarusa Elementary
- Waterford Elementary
- West Goshen Elementary
- West Side Middle School
- Woodview Elementary School
Cultivate Cares Food Network Partners
- Adult & Teen Challenge Northern Indiana
- Augusta Lutheran Church
- Boys & Girls Club Elkhart County
- Boys & Girls Club - Nappanee
- Boys & Girls Club - Goshen
- Brady Center
- Calvary United Methodist Church
- Church Community Services
- Elkhart Excel Center
- Elkhart Schools Art Café
- Goshen Interfaith Hospitality Network
- Gymtown Food Pantry
- Heart City Health
- Kingdom Community Center
- Kingdom Impact
- Maple Leaf Commons
- Middlebury Boys & Girls Club
- Middlebury Food Pantry
- Nappanee Open Door
- Open Gate Food Pantry
- Project Scope
- S.A.K.A.L. the Center
- Salvation Army - Elkhart
- Salvation Army - Goshen
- Saving Grace
- Shepherd's Cove (Calvary Assembly of God)
- SPA Ministries Homes
- Susanna's Kitchen
- The Center
- The Hub Bristol
- The Village Community Center
- Tolson Center
- World Harvest Church
Backpack School Partners
- Argos Elementary
- Bremen High School
- Jefferson Elementary
- Marshall-Starke County Head Start
- Menominee Elementary
- St. Michael's Catholic School
- Triton Elementary
- Washington Discovery Academy
- Webster Elementary
Cultivate Cares Food Network Partners
- Boys & Girls Club, Bremen
- Boys & Girls Club of Marshall County
- Bread of Life
- Community Services
- Culver Food Pantry
- David’s Courage
- DeLong Gospel Lighthouse Church
- Marian University's Ancilla College
- Marshall County Neighborhood Center
- Monastery of the Holy Martyrs
- Moontree Studios
- Oak Haven
- Plymouth Baptist Church
- Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ
- Serenity House
- Shepherd's Food Pantry Argos
Testimonials:
Cultivate has been a huge blessing for us. We have served almost double the number of clients the month of June in 2022 as we did in 2021, with the same amount of purchased food. The free food that we get from Cultivate has helped us tremendously.
Our intent is to make a visit to a food pantry something to be excited about and not seen with a stigma. So whenever I see anything on your website that may be a smile maker for the kids, I jump on it. This month those strawberries were a delight to our visitors. They were better than the ones we saw at the grocery store. God bless you and all the Cultivate staff!
Because of CCFN’s unique online ordering options we are able to order and provide specific items for our guests whether it be for allergies, culturally appropriate foods, etc. We know our guests and what they may want and check every week to see what we have to offer.