Milwaukee: Where to Find Food Pantries (After Flooding)

What to do if your food pantry is closed

If your local pantry is closed, some suggestions to get food and resources:

• If you’re in immediate need, you can use Feeding America’s food pantry locator to find the closest pantry to you. The map has been updated with pantries that are closed due to flooding.
• Call 2-1-1, the city’s social services hotline, for additional help finding food and resources.
• If you’re a part of Wisconsin’s FoodShare program, you can request replacement benefits for any food damaged in a weather event. Find more information here about how to request replacements online, in-person, on the phone or via mail.
• If you’re not a part of FoodShare, you can submit an application for benefits. In cases of immediate need, the program sometimes issues expedited benefit cards. Find more information here.

• Donate: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin has set up an emergency response fund, where all proceeds go directly to neighborhoods hit hardest by the floods.
• Volunteer: See if your neighborhood food pantry could use extra volunteers. If they don’t, Feeding America is running two shifts of volunteers daily at its Milwaukee central campus. Volunteers will help package, label and sort food donations. Find more information here.