CSBG Pilot Programs

Area Five Agency on Aging & Community Service
Logansport, Indiana

With ARRA Funding Area Five Agency had the amazing opportunity to provide Mobile Food Pantries at least once per month throughout our serviceable counties to families in need. We partnered with Food Finders Food Bank, Lafayette, IN, and introduced this program in January 2010. The Mobile Food Pantry brings fresh produce, dairy, meat, baked goods, and other essential food to various sites and we meet client’s needs right where they live and work. The outreach has been phenomenal and the benefits for the families, as well as the Agency, have been numerous. As a result, Area Five Agency was able to offer various other services to the disadvantaged, elderly and disabled in over six counties.

In addition, Area Five Agency was able to provide credits to 15 Food Pantries in Cass, Miami, Howard, Wabash, and Tipton Counties. Due to the economy, the number of clients requiring food assistance has increased and the ARRA Funding made it possible for pantries to continue to serve and meet the needs of their local community.

Combining both projects, we have been able to serve 70,941 individuals from January through September 2010. Families and children have been provided quality and nutritious food choices and we have helped feed the hungry. We have done this all through collaborative efforts with local schools and businesses to help make a difference to individuals, children, and families.