In addition to our main Member Share Grocery Program, we maintain a small Emergency Food Pantry to help families that are facing true crisis situations. Because everything we do at UP Orlando centers around our “hand up, not handout” model, we only provide bags of food and hygiene products to those visiting us for the first time in an emergency need situation. We then encourage these families or individuals to join our other programs or begin working with our Crisis Navigator to get back on the road to self-sufficiency.
The non-perishable items stocked in the pantry are exclusively provided by food drives hosted by schools, churches, companies, civic groups and neighborhoods. You can help stock our shelves by collecting protein-rich items like peanut butter, tuna fish, canned chili, Vienna sausages and canned ravioli. Your kindness will not only put food on the table for a hungry family, but help a parent take the first step towards bettering their life. *Donations of food and hygiene products can be dropped off at our locations seven days a week between 9:00 am – 6:00 pm.
