About the Food Drive

The Hancock County Food Drive is an annual month-long food collection and fundraising project that directly supports food pantries, free meal programs, and school nutrition programs across Hancock County. With the help of volunteers, these organizations work together every spring to raise funds and collect food, providing critical assistance to Mainers during a time when food insecurity rates are at their highest. 

The 2021 Food Drive supports the following organizations

(click on each link to learn more):

• Bar Harbor Food Pantry - Bar Harbor

• Bread of Life Food Pantry - Swan's Island

• Cappy’s Cupboard - Southwest Harbor

• Common Good Soup Kitchen - Southwest Harbor

• Community Compass - Blue Hill Peninsula

• Emmaus Homeless Shelter - Ellsworth

• Everybody Eats! Community Meal - Ellsworth

• Hancock Grammar School Backpack Program - Hancock

• Healthy Island Project - Deer Isle & Stonington

• H.O.M.E Co-op - Orland

• Lifeline Food Pantry - Gouldsboro

• Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry - Ellsworth

• The Magic Food Bus of Healthy Peninsula - Blue Hill Peninsula

• MDI Backpack Program - Bar Harbor

• Open Table MDI - Bar Harbor

• RSU 25 Food Pantry - Bucksport

• Simmering Pot Community Meal - Blue Hill

• Weekends with EE! Backpack Program - Ellsworth

• The Welcome Table - Ellsworth

• What’s For Suppah? Food Pantry - Mariaville

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The Food Drive is organized by members of the Hancock County Food Security Network, Healthy Acadia, United Way of Eastern Maine, UMaine Cooperative Extension, and Star 97.7, and is generously supported by Maine Community Foundation. Thank you to Maine Coast Mall in Ellsworth for providing an annual storage space for thousands of food donations.

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