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Meals shared
Hot plates, grocery boxes, and backpack lunches across eleven neighborhoods.
Open Table Food Bank
Nourish together
A place at the table
Open Table rescues good food before it goes to waste and gets it to the neighbors who need it — through pantries, school backpacks, and community kitchens that feel like home.
Harvest Moon Farms✺Northgate Schools✺Corner Bakery Co-op✺Meadowlark Credit Union✺Riverside Grocers✺Open Sky Collective✺
Our mission
No one should have to choose between rent and dinner. We rescue the good food that would be thrown away, fill the shelves closest to home, and set a place at the table for every neighbor — no questions, no stigma, always fresh.
Impact, 2015 – today
Small gestures, full tables.
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Fresh food rescued
Produce, bread, and dairy saved from landfills and rerouted to dinner tables.
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Pantry partners
Churches, schools, and corner shops opening their doors as neighborhood pantries.
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Neighbor volunteers
Hands behind every crate, from first-time teens to retired chefs.
Around the table
Every plate has a story.
1 in 6
neighbors in our county don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Together, we’re changing that — one plate at a time.
What we do
Four ways we feed together.
Neighborhood Pantries
Groceries, choose-your-own.
Open-shelf pantries run like small markets: neighbors pick what their family actually eats — fresh produce, pantry staples, and culturally familiar favorites.
- No ID needed
- Fresh every week
- Choice-model
Fresh Rescue
Good food, rerouted in hours.
Our refrigerated vans collect surplus from farms, bakeries, and grocers every morning — and deliver it to pantries by lunchtime, while it's still at its best.
- Cold-chain vans
- Farm gleaning
- Same-day delivery
Backpack Meals
Weekends shouldn't mean empty bellies.
Every Friday, discreet backpacks of kid-friendly meals and snacks go home with students, so Monday's learning starts on a full stomach.
- Discreet pickup
- Kid-approved
- School partners
Neighbor Kitchens
A hot meal & a friendly face.
Pay-what-you-can community kitchens serve dinner four nights a week — cooked by volunteers and chefs, enjoyed at long shared tables.
- Free for all
- Cooking classes
- Shared tables
Our journey
A decade at the table.
One folding table & forty loaves
Three neighbors hand out day-old bread from a church basement. By closing time, the line wraps the block.
The first rescue van rolls out
A donated refrigerated truck starts daily runs to local farms and grocers. Waste drops, shelves fill.
Pantries become markets
We switch to open-shelf, choose-your-own pantries — and dignity becomes the default.
The five-millionth meal
Served at a Tuesday kitchen night to a regular named Walt, who stayed to help wash the dishes.
I came for groceries and stayed for the conversation. Nobody asked me to prove anything — they just asked what I like to cook.
Pantry guest & volunteer, Eastside
Get involved
Pull up a chair — volunteer with us.
Two hours a week keeps a pantry stocked, a van rolling and a kitchen warm. Tell us what you like doing and when you're free.
You're on the list, friend.
We'll email you shifts that match your days within a day or two. Come hungry — volunteers eat first.
