Lakewood Mobile Food Bank

Our mobile food bank in the Springbrook neighborhood of Lakewood is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, serving 125 to 150 households each week. Volunteers are needed to process food during the week, and to help distribute on Saturdays. Call the Food Connection at (253) 383-5048 for more information.

The Springbrook neighborhood was selected by the Lakewood Hunger Task Force because of its high percentage of low-income residents and their difficulty in accessing area food banks. The median household income for the neighborhood’s nearly 4,300 residents is $21,688. Of these families, 32 percent have incomes below the federal poverty level, with 26 percent earning less than $10,000 per year. Barriers to food access for residents include a lack of affordable transportation, limited food resources and social services, and the lack of a neighborhood grocery store.

More than 11,000 Served

Since beginning in late April 2006, the Springbrook Mobile Food Bank has served more than 1,100 households at least once (3,000 household members), with more than 11,000 total clients served from July to December 2006.

Award-Winning

The Food Connection's Mobile Food bank received the "Caught in the Act" award from the city of Lakewood on April 17, 2007. Click here for the official document.

On March 14, 2007 the Mobile Food Bank received a Silver Spoon Award from the Emergency Food Network.