Emergency Food

Need Food Now? Call 2-1-1

If you or someone you know needs emergency food, please dial 2-1-1. To call using a cell phone or pay phone, dial 414-773-0211 or toll-free 1-866-211-3380. An operator will help you locate the closest emergency food pantry and/or meal program in your area.

FoodShare

The Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) known locally as FoodShare, is a federal program and Wisconsin’s first line of defense against hunger. Funded 100% by the USDA, FoodShare is an entitlement program, meaning it assists people with low incomes and difficulty affording food with monthly help to make ends meet.

FoodShare provides food buying power at the grocery store through an EBT card called Quest. Eligibility is based on household income and size.

Looking for Help with Food?

Hunger Task Force is a food bank that supplies food to emergency food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters. We also partner with locations that provide school meals, distribute Stockboxes to seniors and help people sign up for FoodShare.

Grocery stores will continue to be your first and best place to obtain food. Food pantries and Hunger Task Force services are for people with little or no money for food. Consider the following questions when wondering about food.

What is your need for emergency food today?

If you have food in your home, you do not need emergency food.

Do you have little or no food in your home?

If you have little or no food in your home, visit a food pantry. Check the map above to see which pantry is closest nearby.

If there are children in your home, you can also obtain school meals.

If there is a low-income adult age 60 or older in your home, they can receive a Stockbox. Check the map for drive-thru locations.

If you are recently unemployed, laid off, or have had your hours reduced, apply for FoodShare at www.access.wisconsin.gov. Do you not need to go to the welfare office; you may apply online.

Are you looking for homebound delivery?

Food pantries, soup kitchens and food banks do not provide homebound delivery. Ask yourself “Who normally helps me?” and contact them for help to get food picked up. You can provide a note allowing this individual to be a proxy for emergency food. Give this note to your support person to pick up a Stockbox and they can receive it for you.

Mobile Market

The Mobile Market is a grocery store on wheels that travels to neighborhoods and communities throughout Milwaukee County that have limited access to fresh and healthy foods. Along with other staples, local grocer Piggly Wiggly stocks the Mobile Market with a healthy selection of fruits, vegetables, milk, protein and more – all at a significant discount! Learn more.

 

Senior Stockbox

Hunger Task Force administers the Commodity Supplemental Food Program – known locally as Stockbox. A Stockbox is a free box of healthy food for low-income seniors (age 60+) who are income eligible. All Stockboxes include cereal, milk, canned veggies and fruits, pasta or rice, protein, fruit juice, canned meats and two pounds of fresh Wisconsin cheese. Learn more.

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