Olean Food Pantry

Needed year round

mac and cheese
peanut butter
canned fruits
canned vegetables and beans
canned soups
cereals
pasta
juice
eggs
butter
mustard
ketchup
crackers

paper products

Your donations of food, money or time are the fuel that runs the Olean Food Pantry. We have no payroll expenses thanks to our 100% volunteer staff . We have an annual facilities rental fee of $1 thanks to the generosity of Bethany Lutheran Church. Your monetary donations help us pay our utilities, office expenses and, most importantly, for food that supplements the food donations we receive from the community. For every dollar you donate, we can buy about seven pounds of food from the Western New York Food Bank. Your contributions feed your neighbors in need with little lost to overhead. Please check our current needs list to see how you can help.

Maureen Curry, Volunteer Manager OFP

Food drives – if you belong to an organization, be it a church, business or other community organization, ask us about organizing a food drive

Fund Drives- noisy can, etc.

Food contribution – drop off your contribution during our operating hours at the OFP or at the Olean Public Library anytime they are open

Money – your monetary contribution gives us the flexibility to meet special needs and to augment and balance food contributions. To donate by credit card or Paypal payment click on the "Donate" button above. If you would prefer to send a check, please make it out to Olean Food Pantry and drop it off at the food pantry or mail it to Olean Food Pantry, 8 Leo Moss Drive, Olean, NY 14760

Recipes – give us your recipes for something special that an be made from the contents of our shelves and we will post it on our website.

Local Businesses

Walmart
Bockmier Farms
Ried's Food Barn
Bimbo Bakeries
Elexco Land Services
Olean Wholsale
Tops Friendly Markets
Service Stores
Park Centre Development

Local Churches

Grace Alliance
United Pentecostal
Bethany Lutheran Church
First Presbyterian
Trinity United Methodist
St. Stephens Episcopal
Christ United Methodist Church
St. Mary of the Angels (Catholic)
First Baptist
St. John's Lutheran-Allegany
First Presbyterian-Allegany
Olean Community Evangelical Church

Local schools

Olean Middle School
Southern Tier Catholic School
Archbishop Walsh Academy
Olean High School

Local Organizations

Olean Postal Workers
Canticle Farms
Renodin Foundation

2011

Souper Bowl collected 6,000 non-perishable items and $2,500 for the Pantry.
Ben Schwabenbauer retired as President after 20 years.
Enchanted Mountain Quilting had a reusable bag making workshop, donating over 80 bags to the Pantry.
OMS Eighth Grade English class and Dr.Taggerty created Easter Baskets that they donated to the Pantry.
Slo-Food created raised beds and planted crops for the gardens.
Community Food Drives: Postal Workers Collection Ron's Smoke Shop, Olean Area Federal Credit Union, Cub/Boy Scouts Troop 617, Five Star Bank, Dollar General, Mt. Zion, Dresser-Rand, Cutco .
Twice a month visits by Customers for 4 months.
Lisa McHone from Cornell Cooperative Extension monthly visits.
Bev Bennett, County Health Nurse, monthly visits.
Canticle Farm donation of fresh produce given out May-October.
Produce donated by Bockmier Farms and other area gardeners.
Board Working on Long Term Planning goals.
Visit by Food Bank of Western NY President.
5 Star Bank donates 900 reusable bags.
Customer records and sign in procedures now computerized.
Plentiful harvesting of our gardens.
Healthy Muffin Making workshop by a volunteer.
CARES-Cattaraugus County Alcohol Council partnered with Tops Markets collecting food for Christmas.
Twin Tiers Striders 2nd Annual Turkey Trot collected non-perishable items.
"Give a food item get a feather " Feather Drive by A Jason Clemons Salon.
New Commercial Cooler
Carrol Swanson and her students present
"Fill a Cube" drive by Buffamante, Whipple and Buttafaro PC
Christmas Stocking Giveaway sponsored by Avon Representatives.