Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Soup Kitchens

Mission: Established in 2007 to provide hunger relief, three square food bank offers wholesome, nutritious food to nonprofit and faith-based organizations, schools and feeding sites that serve a wide range of southern nevadans. A national model project inspired by founder eric hilton with a grant provided by the conrad n. Hilton foundation, three square is a community collaborative partnership with businesses, non-profit agencies, food distributors, higher education institutions, the clark county school district, governmental entities, the media and thousands of volunteers to efficiently and effectively serve hope to those in our community struggling with hunger.

Programs: Three square provides wholesome food to hungry people while passionately pursuing a hunger free community. In the fiscal year ending june 30,2014 three square provided meals for more than 130,000 individuals each and every month through our agency partners and programs. Three square distributed more than 33 million pounds of nutritious food and grocery products to 600 nonprofit program partners; sent 190,000 bags of food home with students through our backpack for kids program; distributed more than 780,000 meals and snacks to children through our kids cafe and summer food programs; partnered with 161 retail grocery stores who participated in our fresh rescue program; and assisted individuals in receiving approximately 7 million in food assistance through our snap (cont. On schedule o) outreach program. Three square is supported by the community, and our volunteers contributed more than 100,000 hours to help feed hungry people. Three square is a member of the feeding america national network of food banks, serving clark, lincoln, esmeralda and nye counties in southern nevada.