Welcome to the Lowcountry Food Bank’s Community Food and Nutrition Center!

Please view the diagram below and see some of the exciting areas being developed at the new building!

Please see below to learn about the corresponding areas of our new building.

1. The Warehouse and Receiving Room:The loading dock at our new facility will accommodate four trucks simultaneously, a 400 percent increase from our current location. This will increase our ability to load/unload more efficiently, enabling us to receive and distribute more nutritious food without staggering delivery times, and reach our goal of distributing 18 million pounds of food by 2013.

2. The Volunteer Center: This area will be a welcoming spot for our wonderful volunteers. Ending hunger in our service area depends on dedicated volunteers and the Lowcountry Food Bank relies on more than 21,000 volunteer hours a year. We project community support from volunteers to more than double in our new facility.

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3. Staff Wing: Five departments and thirty full-time staff members at the Lowcountry Food Bank work diligently to eradicate hunger each and every day. Our new facility will provide a temperature controlled work environment, up to date technology, office space and conference rooms.

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4. The Warehouse: The warehouse area is quite possibly the most vital part of our facility. More than one million pounds of food is distributed from the Cosgrove Distribution Center in a given month. The typical inventory kept on hand at the original distribution center totals 850 thousand to one million pounds of food at any particular time. The additional space the new distribution center brings provides the opportunity to increase our ability to end hunger exponentially.

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5. BackPack Buddies Packing Room: Volunteers and staff will pack and distribute more than 4,000 backpacks a year to Lowcountry school children. The BackPack Buddies Program attacks the issue of weekend hunger in children. Our new packing room will enable on-site packing and direct distribution.

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6. Agency Training Center: The Center will provide an opportunity for in-house agency workshops, serve-safe training, nutrition seminars and cooking demonstrations an an open forum for other community based organizations. Over the next five years we expect increase the number of agencies we work with by 50 percent. Without our new facility we would not be able to accommodate this growth.