SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK, INC.
4612 Locust Avenue
Lubbock, Texas 79404
806/763-3003
Fax: 806/741-0850

email: spfb@spfb.org
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Vision
The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is committed to alleviating hunger and giving hope to the hungry.

Mission
The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a humanitarian resource responsible for securing, growing, processing, and distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. South Plains Food Bank, Inc. also strives to provide opportunities for persons to break out of the poverty cycle.

Food banking solves two problems … hunger and waste.

Food banks collect food donated by individuals through food drives; unsaleable food from manufacturers, wholesalers, grocery stores; unmarketable or surplus produce from farmers; and prepared, but unserved, food from restaurants. At the warehouse, the food is cleaned, sorted, packaged, and distributed to individuals and families in need through partnership with local non-profit social service agencies and churches.

South Plains Food Bank, Inc. was founded in 1983 to provide food and hope for families in need in a 25-county area of West Texas. Through a network of 250 non-profit agencies and churches, food is available in the following South Plains counties: Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Fisher, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Kent, King, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Scurry, Stonewall, Terry, Yoakum.

South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) private, not-for-profit corporation. It is governed by a Board of Directors, which works with an Executive Director, staff, and community volunteers to insure the fulfillment of the mission. The Food Bank is a member of America’s Second Harvest, the National Network of Food Banks.

South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is divided into three divisions. Each of the divisions is designed to fulfill the mission and vision of the organization.

Food Bank Operations: The mission of the Food Bank Operations Division is to (1) provide food for area hungry while preserving human dignity and offering self-sufficiency opportunities, and (2) maintain and grow the donor base for food and funds through partnerships at every level.
Farm, Orchard, and Garden: The mission of the Farm, Orchard, and Garden Division is to combat hunger by growing fresh produce and by teaching others to grow their own produce in order to achieve personal, economic, and community self sufficiency.
Breedlove Dehydrated Foods: The mission of the Breedlove Dehydrated Foods Division is to create, produce, and distribute nutritional products in response to people’s needs universally.

YOUR FOOD BANK IS …

A not-for-profit agency supported by volunteers from all walks of life.

A member of America’s Second Harvest, a national coalition of approved Food Banks.

A provider to 250 agencies and two satellite food banks who, in turn, serve the hungry in 40 counties.

A gleaner of foods from food brokers, manufacturers, supermarkets, farmers, and the thousands of citizens who donate food in every form whenever the opportunity presents itself.

A collector of Second Helpings, the surplus given by restaurants throughout Lubbock.

A source of food for church soup kitchens where members of the congregation serve meals to needy families at: First United Methodist Soup Kitchen, Carpenter's Kitchen of Broadway Church of Christ, and Kingdom Kitchen of University Baptist Mission, as well as the South Plains Food Bank.

A harvester of fresh garden produce from its own 5-acre farm and other gardening projects.

A cultivator of an apple orchard of over 1,500 trees through a Rotary Club District 5730 project.

A distributor of fresh produce at community sites through the Produce for the Plains program.

A grantor of opportunities through self-sufficiency programs, such as the Market Gardens, GRUB (Growing Recruits for Urban Business), and Cooking with Class nutrition education.

A supplier of nutritious, after-school meals to children in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods through Kids Cafe.

A disaster resource to provide food to victims in times of major disasters.

A solution to providing nutritious, easy-to-store, and easy-to-prepare food for those in need through Breedlove Dehydration Foods, not only in the United States but throughout the world.

A voice for those who lack the ability to be heard by being an advocate for the hungry.

A symbol of hope to those who are hungry and have no one else to count on and nowhere else to go.

Click here for the most recent audited financial report for the South Plains Food Bank.

Click here for the most recent Form 990 for the South Plains Food Bank.