The Alliance Community Pantry is celebrating its 13th anniversary!

  Inspired in 2004 by a program about the hunger situation in Alliance, for five years the Alliance Kiwanis Club organized monthly food give-aways where more than 500 people lined up once a month to receive a wide selection of food obtained from the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank.

  From that experience they opened the Pantry on Nov. 15, 2010, and since then it has operated as an all-volunteer non-profit organization with the motto: “Working Within the Community to End Hunger.” 

  Through the years we have received amazing support from all over the community, from businesses, to schools, churches, many service clubs and organizations, and of course individuals. But it’s our volunteers who make it all work. It takes about 50 volunteers a week with a wide range of talents, and without them they would not be able to operate.

  The volunteers are flexible. In the last three years, because of Covid, we have had to transition from being a select pantry set up like a little store four days a week, to now where volunteers box up canned food, produce, meat, baked goods and milk to deliver outside to clients’ cars three days a week.