Green River
Community Food
Warehouse

Our Purpose

GRCFW is a small non-profit that intends to eliminate food insecurity in Owensboro / Daviess County. GRCFW will enable this by building a temperature-controlled warehouse in Owensboro to store incremental pallet quantities of donated food. This food will be distributed to local food pantries and soup kitchens in Owensboro & Daviess County.

Truckload quantities of donated food, particularly hard to get protein, fruits & vegetables are available, but bypass our area because there is no place to store them. This donated food also becomes available on short notice, creating a logistics challenge that can best be addressed via centralized storage.

Our team has worked with all the major local soup kitchens and pantries to understand the challenge and develop a plan to address it. We have evaluated how much food is available and how much incremental food could be acquired and provided locally. We have designed the facility, developed operating & capital budgets, found property, and selected a builder. We are actively building support for the project in our community and seeking donations.

Vision

Eliminate Food Insecurity in Owensboro / Daviess County

Mission

Supply enough donated food to local kitchens & pantries to feed ALL food insecure individuals.

Demographic population served by GRCFW

GRCFW seeks to target food insecure individuals within Owensboro & Daviess County.

Food Insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods. Common demographics that experience higher rates of food insecurity include low-income households, single-parent families, minority populations, elderly, unemployed & people with disabilities.

Feeding America data indicates 11.5% of the US population is Food Insecure. Based on this data, the number of Food Insecure Individuals in Owensboro and Daviess County is approximately 11,500. The goal is to ensure that every single one of these individuals has enough food such that they are no longer food insecure.

Game Changing Nature of this Project

This is transformational project with the primary goal to significantly increase the amount of donated food available in Owensboro / Daviess County. The amount of incremental donated food at minimum would more than double the baseline food availability, and optimistically, could more than provide enough food for every food insecure individual in our local area.