Donate Food | Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen and Social Center

WE ARE BUILT ON THE GENEROSITY OF COMMUNITY

Our Daily Bread serves hundreds of meals a day, five days a week with the support of in-kind food donations from compassionate individuals and the generous local food industry, as well as canned food drives organized by local volunteer groups.

Goods are also important to our operations- whether you donate bus passes for guests to get to appointments, containers to serve soup kitchen to-go meals, or something as simple as Ziploc bags, every donation is important!

Please use the sign-up sheet link to register to donate food, and see drop-off directions as well as a list of our needs for non-perishable food and goods donations below.

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NEEDED ITEM DETAILS

Prepared Dishes

We get pretty busy around here, and donations of prepared food really speed things up in our kitchen! If you enjoy cooking at home, this is a great way to help out.

We are in need of 4 full-size pans of protein, 2 starches, and 2 veggies each day.

For specific details/instructions, please follow the “sign up to donate” button below, and then select the donation you’re interested in giving.

You will receive an email after signing up- this is confirmation of your commitment to donate. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door on Goose Alley behind our building (directions are below).

Please note that we are unable to verify community service hours for off-site activities.

Sandwiches

Sandwiches are provided in Snack Bags along with every hot meal so that our guests can have something to eat later in the day.

You will receive an email after signing up- this is confirmation of your commitment to donate. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door on Goose Alley behind our building.

We are in need of 600 sandwiches each day, 400 Meat and 200 PB&J. Each sign up slot is for 100 sandwiches.

For more details, please follow the “sign up to donate” button below, and then select the donation you’re interested in giving.

Please note that we are unable to verify community service hours for off-site activities.

Home baked goods & salty snacks

You will receive an email after signing up- this is confirmation of your commitment to donate. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door on Goose Alley behind our building.

Home baked goods and salty snacks are included in our Snack Bags that are given to guests along with their meal so they have something to eat later in the day.

Examples:

- Donuts
- Muffins
- Little Debbie
- Cookies
- Brownies
- Pretzels, chips
- Peanut butter/Cheese crackers
- Nuts
- Trail mix
- Beef jerky

For more details, please follow the “sign up to donate” button below, and then select the donation you’re interested in giving.

Please note that we are unable to verify community service hours for off-site activities.

Fresh fruit and juice

You will receive an email after signing up- this is confirmation of your commitment to donate. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door on Goose Alley behind our building.

Each meal we provide includes fruit- when we have fresh fruit, we distribute that, but if we do not, we provide nonperishable fruit such as fruit cups, juice boxes, etc. Both are important to making sure that our guests get a nutritious meal.

Fruit requested (no apples please, many of our guests struggle with eating these):

- oranges/cuties
- bananas
- fruit cups
- juice boxes
- individual applesauce cups or squeezes

Please note that we are unable to verify community service hours for off-site activities.

NEW Creamer and sugar for coffee

You will receive an email after signing up- this is confirmation of your commitment to donate. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door on Goose Alley behind our building.

A cup of coffee in the morning is a ritual and comfort for many. It helps us feel ready to take on whatever the day brings. Most of our guests take their coffee with cream and sugar, and that really adds up when we serve an average of 467 cups of coffee per day!

We are well-stocked with coffee grounds, as we get pallets of coffee donated by Kroger, but we always need sugar and creamer to go with it.

Please note that we are unable to verify community service hours for off-site activities.

Donation Drop Off

Donation Hours:
Monday-Friday 7:00AM – 10:00AM

No parking necessary! We are located at 1730 Race Street across from Findlay Market. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door in the back alley behind our building. If you are heading south on Race, go past our building to the first drive on the left (parking lot). Make the next left onto the alley, and pull up to the green door on our yellow building and ring the doorbell. Someone will help you unload, and you can be on your way.

If you’d like to coordinate your donation with our current needs, contact Kathy Schickel, Director of Operations: Call (513) 621-6364 x 15 or email kathy@ourdailybread.us

map to get to our donation door, and a photo of our donation door.

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IN-KIND FOOD DONATIONS

On a daily basis, the most needed food items for the soup kitchen include:

Sugar
Creamer
Canned fruit
Canned vegetables
Fresh fruit (bananas, oranges)
Juice boxes
Fruit cups
Bottled water

IN-KIND GOODS DONATIONS

Soup Kitchen Needs

Plastic grocery bags
Paper napkins
Ziploc Bags (Sandwich and Quart)
To-Go coffee cups (10 oz or 12 oz) with lids
Plastic forks
55 gallon heavy duty trash bags
Kleenex

Social Services Needs

Bus passes from Metro
Kroger Gift cards
Reading glasses

HOST A CANNED FOOD DRIVE

A canned food drive is a simple activity for a large group looking for a way to give back and make a direct impact. Here are the steps to hosting a canned food drive for Our Daily Bread:

Contact Kathy Schickel (kathy@ourdailybread.us) to determine the current canned food needs of Our Daily Bread, schedule dates of the food drive, and determine when the donations will be delivered.
Participants post flyers out in the community, on social media, via email, and even through texting. Download our flyer here: Canned Food Drive Flier, or feel free to create your own! Are you on Facebook? Create an event to invite your friends and help spread the word.
Participants deliver the items to Our Daily Bread.
Don’t forget to snap photos of your participants collecting food items and share them with us so we can share your volunteer service on our social media sites!