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Programs We Currently Offer:

1515 S Rogers St
Sit-Down Meals

Community Kitchen serves dinner from 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Monday-Saturday all year long, with no questions asked. These meals consist of a main entrée, a vegetarian option, side vegetable, salad, fruit, desserts and beverages. In addition, cold carryout meals are available. We serve an average of 140 of these each day.

 
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Community Kitchen Express

Community Kitchen provides both warm and cold carryout meals from our second location at 1100 W 11th St from 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Monday-Saturday, no questions asked. These meals consist of a main entrée, side item, fruit, and a beverage. We provide an average of 152 of these each day.

 
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Community Kitchen - Food Truck

Community Kitchen’s food truck provides warm carryout meals in Ellettsville and Bloomington, no questions asked. These meals consist of a main entrée, two sides, and a beverage. Locations & times are:

  • Heatherwood Estates 4-4:45pm Mon, Wed & Fri

  • Woodland Springs Apartments 5-5:45pm Mon & Fri

  •  Limestone Crossing 5-5:45pm Wed

  • Edgewood Village Apartments (parking lot) 4-4:30pm Tues, Thurs & Sat

  • Richland Senior Apts (front of maintenance building) 4:40-5:10pm Tues, Thurs & Sat

  • Ellettsville - MC Public Library (front parking lot) 5:15-5:45pm Tues, Thurs & Sat

  • Governor’s Park Apartments 6-6:30pm  Tues, Thurs & Sat

 
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Feed Our Future

Through the FOF Program, we provide sack lunch type meals and healthy snacks to at-risk children and youth in after-school programs. Meals include a sandwich or wrap, fruit, vegetable and milk. Snacks include items such as snack crackers, pretzels, trail mix or fruit, and milk or juice. We provide these meals & snacks to children at all the main and Crestmont Boys & Girls Clubs, and the childcare program at Middle Way's The Rise, as well as other programs who request the services seasonally. We provide approximately 945 of these each week.

 
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Backpack Buddies

We provide backpacks of weekend food to selected low-income children at twenty-one local schools. During the school year, children receive a backpack of food each week to help them and their families with their weekend food needs. We are currently providing this service at nearly every school in the county. We have nearly 500 children enrolled in this program. During the summer, while school is out, we operate the program in conjunction with our Summer Food Service Program. Download information or a food list. If your child needs to start receiving Backpack Buddies, please contact your school social worker.

 
 
 
 

Summer Food Service Program

While school is out in the summer, we know that the over 5,600 Monroe County school children who receive free or reduced meals at school, are likely at a nutritional disadvantage. We provide a free, nutritious sack lunch including a sandwich, wrap or pasta salad, fruit, vegetable and milk, each Monday - Friday to children in selected low-income neighborhoods. This program operates while school is closed for the summer and typically serves children in Country View, Walnut Woods, Henderson Court, Crestmont, The Reserve at Chandler's Glen, Southcrest Estates, Orchard Glen/Highland Park Elementary, Limestone Crossing, Dorothy Apartments, Arlington Valley and Trail View. We provide these meals Monday - Friday from the day after school dismisses until the day before it begins again. Visit our Facebook page or call us for exact times at each neighborhood.

 
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Nutrition Links

Through this program, two reheatable meals per day are delivered by volunteers, free of charge, to selected local HIV+ patients. To provide this service we partner with IU Health Bloomington Hospital's Positive Link program. They do the case management and identify those who need the program, and we provide the food and coordinate the delivery volunteers.

 
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Senior Links

Through this program, one reheatable meal per day is delivered by Stone Belt volunteers, free of charge, to selected local low-income homebound seniors. To provide this service we partner with Area 10 Agency on Aging. They do the case management, identify those who need the program, and coordinate delivery volunteers.

 
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Head Start Meals

We are thrilled to vend lunches for local Head Start sites (16 classrooms) throughout Monroe County. Not only are we reaching low-income children with daily healthy, prepared lunches, we are helping shape the way children understand healthy eating. This program allows us to expose 252 preschool children to a variety of healthy proteins, grains, fruits and vegetables. This program operates year round.

 
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