We depend on our incredible volunteers (there's more than 125 of us!) who help us five days per week to bring food into the Pantry and then redistribute food to area families. We operate with extremely low overhead! We are a faith-based, non-profit charity organization, serving thousands of NE Iowa families experiencing food insecurity. More than 13 area faith communities have representation on our board and among our volunteers.

 

As a faith-based organization, the Decorah Community Food Pantry shares food with local Iowans facing food insecurity. We strive to interact with clients in a welcoming and respectful manner.     

 

When you support our organization, you should feel good knowing that your generosity means our neighbors in need have access to good nutrition. 

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Our organization started as a ministry of First Lutheran Church in 1996 and grown a lot since our beginning. In 2017 we were incorporated as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our volunteers and board members come from all over Decorah and surrounding communities. What we all share is passion for doing what we can to eradicate hunger and food-access issues in our community.

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We depend on the generosity of individual donors, church congregations, corporate partners, community organizations, and grants to provide the hundreds-of-thousands of pounds of food we distribute each year in NE Iowa. We are truly a "Community" Pantry! 

 

We are so grateful to all who give time, money, or food to our important work.

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Our Board Members are charged with ensuring the Food Pantry's work is sustainable and aligned with its mission for years and years to come. Most represent a local faith community.

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• Nancy Ruen - President, First United Methodist 

• Nancy Pfile- Vice President, Prairie Lakes

• Martha Kane - Secretary, Saint Benedict Catholic

• David Scott, Treasurer At-large

• Terry Sparkes, Assistant Treasurer - United Church of Christ

• Jeff Leeper, Decorah Covenant

• Susan Herndon, Decorah Friends

• Jon Hart, First Lutheran

• Dianne Borowski, Glenwood Lutheran

• Charlie Smock, Decorah Lutheran

• Carol Tebbenhoff, Grace Episcopal

• David Peterson, Good Shepherd Lutheran

• Carol Hagen, Unitarian Universalist

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We have so many friends and community partners that we won't try to name them all. We are beyond grateful to our donors, big and small, and to community organizations and businesses whose generosity make what we do possible. We also need to thank our partner organization, the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, which helps us access much of the food we then pass on to our clients.