69 services in Berks County. Food help in Berks County runs through Helping Harvest, the food bank that supplies the pantries, mobile markets and free meals across the county. Most pantries follow the state income guideline and ask you to sign a form; free meals are open to anyone. SNAP and WIC are separate government benefits, applied for through the state.
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Reading
Opportunity House runs the Beacon House Food Pantry at Beacon House, 821 Schuylkill Avenue, Reading, Pennsylvania, giving nutritious food to individuals and families in need. The pantry offers food…
From Opportunity House
Reading
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Allentown runs a food pantry at 234 Grace Street in Reading, which is also its Berks County office. The pantries provide essential nourishment to individuals and…
From Catholic Charities
Reading
New Journey Community Outreach runs a client choice food pantry at 138 South 6th Street, Reading, PA 19602, where you pick out your own groceries instead of receiving the same pre-packed box as…
From New Journey Community Outreach
Douglassville
Hopewell Love Community Services holds a client choice food pantry in Douglassville on the first Wednesday of every month. At a client choice pantry, people generally pick out groceries themselves…
From Hopewell Love Community Services
Robesonia
Trinity Lutheran Church in Robesonia serves as the host site for the Conrad Weiser Food Pantry, which hands out groceries once a month. Food is distributed on the last Thursday of each month, except…
From Conrad Weiser Food Pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church
Kutztown
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs a Pet Pantry in Kutztown for dogs and cats, one of the few pantries dedicated to pets. The Pet Pantry runs in conjunction with the Northeastern Berks Food Pantry…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
READING
The Salvation Army Reading Citadel offers emergency food that you pick up at an appointment you set ahead of time. This pickup is meant for people who need emergency food. You cannot simply stop by…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
Helping Harvest's Maternal Health Program gives a box of nutritious food to people who are pregnant or who have recently given birth. It is a two-year pilot program, made possible by the Jewish…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Shoemakersville · Free and Anonymous
Keystone Military Families runs a food bank and pantry at 331 Main St. REAR, Shoemakersville, PA 19555, giving nutritious food to military families and veterans. The group lists the service as free…
From Keystone Military Families
Topton · Taking applications
Friend, Inc.’s Free Community Table offers food at St. Peter’s UCC, 122 W. Franklin Street in Topton. Enter through the back door by the parking lot. Anyone may use the table without registering or…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Reading
New Journey Community Outreach gives out food at a pop-up pantry on Fridays at 9:00 am at 138 South 6th Street in Reading. The food comes from local donations, so the amount available is limited and…
From New Journey Community Outreach
Healthy Sprouts is a Helping Harvest youth program that provides a bag of fresh foods to children in need in the City of Reading. It was first piloted in March 2010 under the name Produce 4 Kids, and…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Reading
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank helps residents of Berks and Schuylkill counties apply for SNAP benefits, the food assistance many people still call food stamps. The help is for people who live in…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Oley
Friedens Lutheran Church keeps a Little Free Pantry at its entrance in Oley. Anyone may take food from the box or leave food for others at any time. It is at 1076 Memorial Highway, Oley, PA 19547.…
From Oley Valley Food Pantry at Friedens Lutheran Church
Sinking Spring
Cornwall Terrace Elementary hosts a Little Pantry, a small neighborhood pantry built by local Scouts so that, as the school puts it, no neighbor goes without. Anyone can stop by to take a few items…
From Wilson School District
Mohnton
The Mifflin Community Food Ministry runs a food pantry in Mohnton for families in need in the Governor Mifflin area. It is a non-profit corporation formed in 2002 by four area churches: Zion E.C.…
From Mifflin Community Food Ministry
Countywide
Helping Harvest runs a Mobile Market Program that brings nutritious produce, dairy and meats to neighborhood sites in Berks and Schuylkill Counties, where staff and volunteers hand the food directly…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Leesport
The Schuylkill Valley Food Pantry hands out pre-packed boxes and bags of groceries from the parking lot of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Leesport on the third Saturday of every month…
From Schuylkill Valley Food Pantry
Oley
The Oley Valley Food Pantry at Friedens Lutheran Church hands out food once a month at the church in Oley, loading it into your vehicle. Distribution is always the third Wednesday of every month…
From Oley Valley Food Pantry at Friedens Lutheran Church
Kutztown
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs a food pantry at the Kempton Community Center where Albany Township residents can pick up a box of food once a month. It is open to Albany Township residents and…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
READING
The Salvation Army Reading Citadel hands out food to families in need on the last Friday of every month at 301 South 5th Street, Reading, Pennsylvania 19602. The food comes from its Food Assistance…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
Birdsboro
The Exeter BFC Food Pantry hands out boxes of food from the church parking lot in Birdsboro on the second Saturday of every month, working with Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank and with individuals…
From Exeter Bible Fellowship Church Food Pantry
Alburtis
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs the Alburtis Mobile Market, a once a month food distribution at Huff's Union Church, 540 Conrad Rd, Alburtis, in Hereford Township. It is held the first Thursday…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Kutztown
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs the Northeastern Berks Food Pantry at 60 Bieber Alley in Kutztown, where people shop their way through the aisles and choose their own food for the month. The…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Boyertown
Preston's Pantry is the food pantry of Boyertown Area Multi-Service, and it exists to provide the local community with assistance in food to those who do not have the financial means to meet their…
From Boyertown Area Multi-Service
The Salvation Army Boyertown Corps runs a food pantry that hands out non-perishable essentials, the kind of shelf-stable groceries that keep at home, to families in need. The pantry is open two days…
From The Salvation Army Boyertown Corps
Helping Harvest runs a School Pantry Program that places food pantries inside schools, so students who do not have enough to eat can choose food for themselves and their families. The program is…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Reading
SNAP, formerly called food stamps, helps Pennsylvanians buy groceries with an EBT Card, and the office that takes applications in person in this county is the Berks County Assistance Office in…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Kutztown · Seasonal
Friend, Inc. Community Services in Kutztown hands out a turkey and a holiday dinner box each November and December so families can put a full Thanksgiving or Christmas meal on the table. The boxes go…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Seasonal
The Salvation Army Reading Citadel gives out Thanksgiving dinners to families once a year at its Thanksgiving Distribution, held on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. In 2022, the Reading Citadel…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
The Wilson Area Food Pantry hands out food inside the Community Center at West Lawn United Methodist Church. Distribution is indoors and is held the third Friday of each month from 3 to 5pm. The page…
From Wilson Area Food Pantry
Reading
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres serves culturally appropriate nutritional daily meals to older adults at Mama Angie's Casa de la Amistad Senior Center, 25 N. 2nd Street in Reading, where people also…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
Countywide · Seasonal
The Berks County Area Agency on Aging offers Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks, which people who qualify can use to buy food from farmers. The program begins June 1st, and checks are available…
From Berks County Area Agency on Aging
Countywide
Maternal and Family Health Services runs WIC nutrition centers in 17 Pennsylvania counties, including Reading and greater Berks County, and gives people enrolled in WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
The Salvation Army Boyertown Corps serves a free hot lunch at its community meal program, open to anyone who would like to attend. There is no income rule, paperwork or sign-up described for the…
From The Salvation Army Boyertown Corps
Countywide · Waiting list
Helping Harvest runs the Senior Food Box Program, which provides a box of food every month to more than 2,100 low-income senior citizens. The box is a supplement to what you normally buy, meant to…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Seasonal
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres takes part in the Summer Food Service Program, a federally funded program that provides free, nutritious meals to children and teens during the summer months when school…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
Countywide · Seasonal
The Summer Food Service Program, run nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and administered in Pennsylvania by the Department of Education, provides free, nutritious meals to children when…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
Reading · Free Community Lunch Program
New Journey Community Outreach runs a Free Community Lunch Program that serves warm, nutritious meals to individuals and families facing hunger in Reading. It is meant for anyone who needs it…
From New Journey Community Outreach
Reading
Hope Rescue Mission serves three meals a day to the men staying in its emergency shelter programs at 645 North Sixth Street in Reading. The meals come with a shelter bed rather than as a separate…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Reading
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres is the vendor in the city of Reading that provides meals on wheels for seniors who are home-bound, meaning meals are brought to seniors where they live rather than served…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
Countywide
Berks Encore runs Meals on Wheels Berks County, which delivers meals to the homes of older adults who are unable to prepare their own food because of physical limitations. Along with the meal, a…
From Berks Encore
Boyertown Area Multi-Service runs Meals on Wheels, which brings a hot noon meal, and an optional cold evening meal, to people who are 60 years and older, homebound, and disabled and/or unable to shop…
From Boyertown Area Multi-Service
Birdsboro
Hopewell Love Community Services hosts The Community Table, a shared meal held once a month in Birdsboro and open to anyone who wants to come. The meal is on the first Tuesday of the month at 5 PM…
From Hopewell Love Community Services
Seasonal
Reading School District serves breakfast and lunch to children during the summer at school cafeterias around the city. Meals are served from June 15 to July 31, Mondays through Thursdays. Breakfast…
From Reading School District
Countywide · Access to a free nutritionist
Maternal and Family Health Services runs the WIC Nutrition Program, which helps families buy healthy groceries and gives them nutrition support during pregnancy and while their children are small.…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
Wyomissing
Wyomissing Area School District takes applications from families for free or reduced price school meals, and families must file a new application every year even if a child was approved before. What…
From Wyomissing Area School District
Reading
Exeter Township School District's Food Services department signs children up for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches through the federal school meal programs. The Food Services team serves…
From Exeter Township School District
Taking applications
Kutztown Area School District lets families apply for free or reduced price school breakfast and lunch for their children through a SchoolCafe account. The district participates in the School…
From Kutztown Area School District
Countywide · Taking applications
Children in Pennsylvania can get school breakfast and lunch free or at a reduced price when their household income falls under federal limits. The United States Department of Agriculture released the…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
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