North Texas Food Bank

We love the NTXFB and have been strong financial supporters of theirs for many years. You can confidently donate here knowing with 100% certainty that your dollars are matched and spent with rigorous professional oversight and accountability.
The warehouse is clean and organised, professionally run and spacious. Donated food is kept on pallets and never touches the floor.
The NTXFB is a hub for food distribution for multiple social service agencies and food pantries throughout the area. We will
sing their praises to anyone who will listen.

Without question, a noble and worthy cause. As far as volunteer opportunities go, this place has it down to a science. If it’s one thing a team of engineers doesn’t like, it’s disorganization and feeling like precious weekend hours were wasted on unproductive actions. One needs no such worry here. After a brief introduction on what NTFB is all about and a few quick (obvious) safety tips for working in the warehouse, the pool of volunteers is split into smaller groups that work on stations (sorting of donations or various assembly lines for the variety boxes that will go to seniors, kids, or families). Each small group receives some additional instructions for that station, and then you’re off to the races. By the end of the 3 hour session, the impact of your group’s efforts is evident — either in number of boxes assembled, or by clearing/​sorting all manner of donation boxes/​bags. It’s truly rewarding, and I hope to return many times in the future.
A few notes:
1. If you donate to a canned food drive, please don’t donate corn or green beans — you can’t imagine how many cans of that stuff are donated. Be original and avoid those two when donating.
2. NTFB gets an enormous amount of volunteers in Nov/​Dec but come Jan/​Feb, the volunteers really drop off, so consider «off-​months» for service efforts.

I came here for a company volunteering project. These guys do really amazing work feeding hungry North Texans. They are almost entirely dependent on volunteers and donations, so they always need your help. Whether it’s donating food or money, or volunteering your time, I definitely urge everyone to help out here!

Food for thought
NTFB holds a very special place in my heart. This charity is one of the best run in North Texas. I both donated and volunteered here several times with my coworkers and friends. Each time I’ve volunteered, I have fun while helping others, that’s the best kind of fun. They make the volunteer process so easy and have a big smile to welcome you. If you are wanting to only contribute monetarily, I can’t think of a better place. For every dollar contributed, 94 cents of that dollar goes to their cause and not their fundraising/​administration. Moreover, they multiply that dollar into 3 meals. It sounds almost biblical, multiplying the fish and bread to feed the masses.
I would like to share a personal story as to why this charity is so near and dear to me. When I was a kid in middle school, I was transferred to a academy school (it was supposed to be a better school for me academically), it was in far South Dallas and I stood out like sore thumb. I had my fair share of bullies, but the one I remember best was a large kid who would follow me to my seat in the cafeteria. He would always ask if I was «going to eat that,» while he put his fingers in my food. I would defiantly say yes, even though I would normally just toss it. He would do this to the other kid next to me, but that kid would relent and just give him the food. This would happen just about every day, and would be defiant and negate my lunch to the kid I saw as my bully. Until one day the other kid whispered in my ear «don’t you see, he’s just hungry». That’s is when I realized that I had never seen my bully with anything to eat. He was always just scavenging food from others. I always had said no, but he didn’t try to hurt me… I was his bully.
There are so many people who need help, 1 in 4 kids go hungry every day in Dallas and surrounding suburbs (yeah, poverty is there too). When I grew up, I often heard «eat all your food, there are kids in Africa/​India/​China/​Mexico who don’t have enough to eat»! It never occurred to me that even in my own neighborhood, there are people who go hungry every day. If it wasn’t for the North Texas Food Bank, so many would have nothing to eat. They don’t just offer food, they educate people on how to plan meals and make healthy choices with food.
Please help this very worthy charity defeat hunger in North Texas.

For when I was hungry…

This place is AWESOME!
The amount of food that they provide to the DFW Metroplex is just amazing! This was my first time volunteering at a food bank and it was just such a pleasant, fun and humbling experience. The workers are all nice, they take the time out to give you interesting facts about their services and the work that they do on a daily basis is SERIOUS!
It was hard work sorting the food, I will tell you that. A lot of moving, shaking, yelling, communication, teamwork between the communities that were volunteering and you feel good when you know that your hard work will help someone or some family.

What a wonderful volunteering opportunity! I heard about the need for volunteers through a friend and headed there for a few hours on a Saturday. Since they have full time employees there to guide the volunteers, i think it makes for a seamless operation. Everything just went so smoothly and they have a need for every volunteer that shows up. You can volunteer alone or with your family or a group of people. You all work together for the same outcome. We did backpacks for children to take home from school. At the end of the couple hours they have us how much weight of food we packaged and how many backpacks we created. Very satisfying. I’ll definitely be back and bringing folks with me!

Give and volunteer! That is the answer to the question of «what’s going on this week or «there isn’t anything to do!» Yes, there is plenty to do at the NTFB! They are always in need of donations and help sorting out those donations. When I was there, we sorted enough food to feef 37,500 hungry people! That is a drop in an ever growing bucket of people in need. They need volunteers because they have a VERY SMALL STAFF to handle thousands of pounds of food and they rely of the man/​woman power of the volunteer army! It was rewarding and a great networking opportunity as well. Kids-​looks great on a college application! When you are done breaking a non– existent sweat from sorting food in an air-​conditioned warehouse, you will feel great and will have done a great thing for your fellow human!

Have to give this experience a 5 star. We were greeted with a hello and understanding of what we were about to do. They showed us a video of what volunteering does for the community and then we went to work. Separated into 2 groups. Speaking for my group we sorted crates of boxes of food. (From water, dry food, snacks, can foods, etc.) Separating them in to boxes that were the same type of food and or drinks. It was a lot of (food) but it was a team effort. The man said it usually be maybe 3 people doing the work that we did today. They can use your help if your available. I remember Tuesday to Saturday — just join on line. See you there. It was awesome.