Food insecurity is on the rise for Greater Lehigh Valley residents and children. Maintaining access to healthy, affordable food is critical to community stabilization. Although recovery is underway, the need for improved food access will continue.

Full Cart Virtual Food Pantry, a program launched in 2021 in partnership with Lehigh Valley Food Policy Council and U.S. Hunger, is an innovative emergency food solution that increases access to healthy food and addresses the root causes of hunger by delivering groceries directly to families’ homes. Families and individuals complete an online survey and grocery order and the food box is shipped directly to their door. One box feeds one person for up to six weeks and a family of four up to 10 days.

Our partnership allowed us to serve and ship over 257 boxes of shelf-stable food directly to the front door of 1,345 individuals in need—this is equivalent to more than 32,125 servings of food.