Metropolitan Baptist Church

Emergency Food Resources

 

For over 143 years, Metropolitan Baptist Church has served as a primary voice of social advocacy, spiritual health and wholeness in the District of Columbia. With a strong membership of over 3,500 persons and nearly 40 active ministries, Metropolitan is committed to effecting positive change in its future Prince George’s County home of Largo, MD and beyond.

 

Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
1426 Ninth Street, NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20001-3330
Phone: (202) 234-6300
Fax: (202) 234-6303
Email: ifc@ifcmw.org

Publisher of the Emergency Food Directory

Bread for the City
1525 Seventh Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202.265.2400
Fax: 202.745.1081

1640 Good Hope Road, SE,
Washington, DC 20020.
Phone: 202.561.8587
Fax: 202.574.1536

The mission of Bread for the City is to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC, with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. We recognize that all people share a common humanity, and that all are responsible to themselves and to society as a whole.

Capital Area Food Bank
645 Taylor St. NE; Washington, DC 20017
Phone: (202) 526-5344

6833 Hill Park Drive; Lorton, VA 22079
Phone: (703) 541-3036


The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest, public nonprofit hunger and nutrition education resource in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. Each year the CAFB distributes 20 million pounds of food, including 6 million pounds of fresh produce, to over 700 partner agencies. The Capital Area Food Bank was founded on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, January 15, 1980.

DC Central Kitchen
425 2nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone: 202-234-0707
Fax: 202-986-1051

DC Central Kitchen is not a "soup kitchen." Our cohesive approach to solving the interconnected problems of poverty, hunger, and homelessness has led us to become a recognized national leader in our field. As a community kitchen, we recycle over one ton of surplus food each day that would otherwise go to waste and turn it into 4,000 meals for the hungry in the greater Washington, DC region.

DC Food Finder

Every day in the District of Columbia, one out of eight households struggles against hunger. D.C. residents need three things to be healthy: money to consistently buy a nourishing diet; knowledge on how to make nutritious food choices; and healthy, affordable food outlets in their neighborhoods. Healthy Affordable Food for All (HAFA) is a coalition of advocates, service providers and local food activists working to increase access to healthy, affordable food in all D.C. neighborhoods.

DC Hunger Solutions
1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 986-2200 x3023
Fax: (202) 986-2525
E-mail: dchunger@dchunger.org 

D.C. Hunger Solutions is a project of the Food Research and Action Center, is dedicated to fighting hunger and obesity and improving the nutrition, health and well-being of children, youth and families in the District of Columbia. D.C. Hunger Solutions partners with District agencies, policymakers, organizations and individuals to ensure every District resident has access to healthy food in their community.

Dinner Program for Homeless Women
309 E Street, NW
Washington , DC 20001
Phone: 202-737-9311
Fax: 202-347-7217

The Dinner Program for Homeless Women is an independent, 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization serving the District of Columbia. Since 1979, the Dinner Program for Homeless Women (DPHW) has continually served hot, nutritious, appetizing meals to the homeless and poor of downtown DC.

Emmaus Services for the Aging
1426 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3344
Phone: 202-745-1200
Fax: 202-745-1246

Emmaus Services for the Aging (pronounced ee-MAY-us) reaches out to build trust with seniors to provide support, advocacy and services that help them remain active, respected,  and independent members of the community.

Food and Friends
219 Riggs Road, NE
Washington, DC 20011
Phone: (202)269-2277
Fax: (202)635-4261
TTY Service: (202)855-1234

Along with nutrition counseling, Food & Friends prepares, packages and delivers meals and groceries to more than 1,400 people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses throughout Washington, DC, 7 counties of Maryland and 7 counties and 6 independent cities in Virginia. Since 1988, Food & Friends has provided food and companionship to our clients, their loved ones and caregivers.

Food for All DC
1810 16th St, NW
Washington, DC 20009

Food for All is a non-profit organization that strives to provide food to those who are in temporary situations of need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children.

Food Research and Action Center
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 986-2200
Fax: (202) 986-2525

The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause, poverty

Martha's Table
2114 14th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Phone: 202-328-6608
E-mail: info@marthastable.org

Martha’s Table’s mission is to serve the needs of the less fortunate in the Washington, DC community through food, learning, healthy living, recreational and family support services.

Maryland Hunger Solutions
400 East Pratt Street
Suite 606
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 528-0021
Fax: (410) 528-0023
info@mdhungersolutions.org

In the wealthiest state in the country, 9.5 percent, or almost one in ten households faces a constant struggle against hunger. Maryland is home to three of the wealthiest counties in the nation, Howard, Montgomery and Calvert Counties, but with food and energy prices continuing to rise, it can be extremely difficult to live in poverty and struggle against hunger in the state. With the cost of living in many Maryland counties well above the national average, families are struggling to pay their housing costs, put gas in their cars and pay their heating and air conditioning bills.

Partnership to End Hunger in the Nation's Capital

Ending childhood hunger sounds to many like an impossible goal — but with adequate funding and citywide participation, this plan will ensure that it will be done.