To the website Home Page of the Food Bank For Monterey County. Through this site, we publish information about the various programs and services that the Food Bank provides to the 32,000 needy residents in our community. Monterey County is part of the Central Coast region of California. Its area comprises 3,300 square miles of dramatic Pacific coastlines and mountainous ranges.
Agriculture dominates the economy of the region.
The Food Bank achieves this mission primarily through the collection, storage and distribution of food via direct distribution programs and other non-profit food assistance agencies. Information about our direct distribution programs can be found by double clicking on any of the selections listed on the link bar at the left. The Food Bank serves as a primary supplier of food to a network of 120 non-profit food assistance agencies. Included in this network are churches, senior and youth centers, rehabilitation centers, emergency pantries, soup kitchens, low-cost child care providers and homeless shelters. Through our direct programs and this network of agencies, food assistance is provided to the elderly, the chronically ill, the homeless, the unemployed, and working poor families and individuals.