Olean Food Pantry Fighting Food Insecurity
A Resource for Healthy Food in Our Communities
Olean Food Pantry Needs Your Help
The Olean Food Pantry has seen a 95.4% increase in food recipients the last 3 years. Will you answer the call for this increased need? You cash donation allows OFP to purchase 66% more food than by non-perishable food donations alone.
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Olean Food Pantry Launches $1 Million Fundraising Campaign
In response to the meteoric rise in Olean Food Pantry clientele in recent years, we are proud to announce our $1 million fundraising campaign. When successful, OFP will be able to sustain food distribution efforts for the next decade while addressing our little corner of the alarming rise of food insecurity in America. It’s a […]
Navigating the Vicious Cycle: Food Insecurity & Poor Health in Western New York
We’ve become accustomed to seeing more and MORE people visiting the Olean Food Pantry for sustenance in recent years. In 2024, it seems like each week we’re approaching or setting record-breaking numbers of individuals and families served. Increasing community need calls for a better understanding of the consequences of hunger. The most severe? Food insecurity […]
10 Challenges to Ending Global Food Insecurity by 2030
That always seems to be the lofty goal, right? End some big issue by the end of the decade. Those who profess themselves to be changemakers on a global scale always seem to kick the can a decade into the future – ending global food insecurity is no different – so the goals inevitably won’t […]
Olean Food Pantry Celebrating 70 Years of Fighting Hunger
Let’s pay homage to a journey that began 70 years ago to end hunger in our communities. Olean Food Pantry began in the humblest of ways in 1954, with a small women’s group determined to feed the hungry as best they could. They decided to make a difference, and they did! Little did these remarkable […]