The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is the main food bank for southwestern Pennsylvania, covering 11 counties from Allegheny and Pittsburgh out through Westmoreland, Washington, Fayette, and Greene. The region mixes a reinvented post-steel Pittsburgh with rust-belt towns and rural Appalachia, each with its own pattern of need. Lisa Scales serves as President and CEO. The Food Bank is based in Duquesne and holds a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
The Food Bank sources food at scale and distributes it through a network of partner pantries and agencies across 11 counties, adding direct and mobile distributions where fixed sites are scarce. That matters in a service area that runs from the dense Pittsburgh core out to rural Appalachian counties where the nearest pantry can be a long drive.
It has invested in fresh produce and in programs aimed at older adults and children, the groups for whom steady access to food matters most.
Lisa Scales serves as President and CEO and is a recognized leader in the national anti-hunger field. Under her the Food Bank has held its four-star Charity Navigator rating and expanded its reach across southwestern Pennsylvania, including the move to its Duquesne operations base.
The 11-county service area centers on Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, then spreads into Westmoreland, Washington, Fayette, Greene, and neighboring counties. Pittsburgh’s shift from steel to healthcare and technology left uneven prosperity behind, and the Food Bank covers both the city’s pockets of poverty and the harder-hit former industrial and rural towns around it.
Yes. The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is a 501(c)(3) and a Feeding America member with a four-star Charity Navigator rating, the highest available. Bulk buying and donated product mean a modest gift produces a large number of meals.
Donations and volunteer shifts run through pittsburghfoodbank.org. Volunteers sort and pack food and help at distributions, and cash gifts go furthest because of the Food Bank’s purchasing power.
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank covers the southwest, Philabundance covers the Philadelphia region in the southeast, and the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank covers the large central part of the state. For anyone in the Pittsburgh area or southwestern counties, this is the lead organization.
Pantries and agencies across 11 counties receive food.
Food brought into rural and underserved communities.
Monthly food assistance for older adults on fixed incomes.
School and weekend food support for kids at risk of hunger.
Sources: Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank website (pittsburghfoodbank.org), Charity Navigator and ProPublica (EIN 25-1420599). We are not affiliated with Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and receive no compensation for this listing. Spotted an error? [email protected]
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