The food bank was created by Reverend J. William McNally in 1985 who was Executive Director until he passed away in 1999. His son, Reverend Ric McNally, is now Excecutive Director and manages the organization from its Aberdeen facility. A Brown Bag Club is a self-help program that serves as a means of making ends meet with monthly food budgets. Anyone who meets the income guidelines of cooperating organizations qualifies for the Brown Bag Program. Products are donated by manufacturers and local food markets from their overstock or close to shelf date items.
All bags contain items similar in nature.
Brown Bag Clubs are responsible for picking up their food on regular shopping days. Most pantries also provide additional service from bus tokens to financial counseling, financial assistance with rent, utilities, fuel, medicine and transportation. Throughout the state, there are approximately 350 such providers. In Maryland Many people go without proper food. Ninety percent of pantry operators said there are hungry people in the communities who will not or cannot come to them who are going hungry.