Founded in 1986, the Youngstown Community Food Center (YCFC) began with one simple mission: to ensure that no neighbor in the Mahoning Valley goes hungry.

What started as a small grassroots effort has grown into one of the region’s most trusted community lifelines; serving thousands of individuals and families every month through food distribution and outreach programs.

We believe food is more than nourishment. It’s connection, dignity, and hope for a better tomorrow.

Our Impact:

Youngstown Community Food Center and Gleaners Food Bank located near downtown Youngstown feeds families each Tuesday morning, 52 weeks a year. We are a non-profit, no fee organization which has been in existence since 1986 supplying food and non-food items to the less fortunate at no cost to them.

We distribute goods weekly to individual families and currently on a monthly bases supply 110+ church food pantries, Women’s Crisis Shelters, Veterans Centers, schools, minority organizations, elderly housing complexes, those on a fixed income; in short the less fortunate families here in our several county sphere of operation, again, at no cost to them. We are currently providing for over 7,590 families a month with food and non-food items and that number continues to grow. We provide all of our goods with out any fees or cost!