Imagine.

To support your family, you work two jobs. A nearby pantry offers fresh food, but it’s only open in the morning, during your first shift. A visit would take too much time out of your day. You realize you can’t afford to shop the food pantry. Maybe you experience a sudden health crisis. Consumed by medical bills, you visit a pantry for the first time. The support gets you through the month. But it doesn’t address your ongoing health issues. Your child attends a school that offers free meals, but he feels uncomfortable asking for lunch in front of his friends. Some weeks, you pick up fresh produce, but you have no time to turn these ingredients into meals.

Re-Imagine.

You know how complicated hunger can be. Food security is rooted in your health, your housing, your transportation, your income. The solutions must also be rooted in you. This is a campaign to tear down the barriers. To meet customers where they are. This is a campaign rooted in you. A campaign to re-imagine ending hunger.

Seeding the Future

Donors have been side-by-side with MOFC at every milestone of the past 40 years. Philanthropy has pushed traditional food banking to new boundaries. Ideas that were once improbable are now changing lives because of extraordinary donors. Now, visionary donors like you can re-imagine what hunger relief looks like in our communities. Years of data point to five major investments that will transform our work to better meet the needs of customers: • Mid-Ohio Markets • Data and Insights Platform • Mid-Ohio Farm on the Hilltop • Mid-Ohio Food Collective Facility • Enhanced Annual Fund

For a Flourishing Mid-Ohio

Change is rooted in you. And from your gift, so much will grow – Students, who thrive at school and home, free of the worries hunger carries. Families, who can chart a path toward food security, supported by MOFC’s resources and networks. Our neighborhoods, brought together by acts of gardening, volunteering, learning, and sharing. The prosperity of our region, strengthened by the health and vitality of its people.

Mid-Ohio Market: Rooted in Dignity

Imagine if food pantries mirrored the grocery store experience. Roomy aisles, attractive lighting, abundant choices. Convenient hours. Options to order ahead and pick meals up curbside. Imagine customers who feel welcomed. Who can secure groceries—and also connect with healthcare, housing support, job training, or childcare. That is the future Mid-Ohio Markets will make possible.

Data & Insights: Rooted in Understanding

Imagine if we could unite the endless data that exists in Ohio around hunger. If we could combine mountains of information to provide customers the right food in the right place at the right time. The Data and Insights Platform will do just that—helping us to better understand customers’ needs and craft smarter solutions.

Mid-Ohio Farm: Rooted in Community

Imagine transforming vacant sites into the centerpieces of our communities. Vibrant places of growth, where neighbors tend fresh produce. Learning hubs, where families can join classes and events. Treasured spaces that spark pride and hope. All that—and more—will blossom at the Mid-Ohio Farm. Starting with our commitment to the Hilltop community.

Mid-Ohio Food Collective:

Rooted in Innovation

Imagine the Mid-Ohio Food Collective’s facility, updated for the next era in hunger relief. A new production kitchen, where nutritious food is prepared. A refreshed on-site pantry, where customers experience convenient, simple shopping processes. Enhanced meeting spaces, where nonprofits share and collaborate. The Mid-Ohio facility, with campaign investments, can be an incubator for growth and invention.

Annual Growth: Rooted in Sustainability

Imagine security for our neighbors. The knowledge that the Mid-Ohio Food Collective will always be able to provide, no matter the circumstances. Imagine innovation, pioneering research, cutting-edge strategies. Flexible annual support is critical to the growth of the Food Collective —and the health of our community.

You work two jobs to support your family. Fortunately, your nearby Mid-Ohio Market is open on weekends. You shop with ease and with dignity. Perhaps your health changes suddenly. When you stop at the Market, a volunteer helps you apply for longer-term nutrition benefits. A social worker helps you pinpoint medical aid. Your child attends a school that offers free meals, prepared at the Mid-Ohio Kitchen. He is not alone. His classmates enjoy nutritious snacks alongside him. Hurrying between commitments, you do not have time to cook. In these hectic moments, you know you can find take-home meals.

TOGETHER, WE CAN—AND WE WILL— RE-IMAGINE HUNGER RELIEF IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN OHIO.

THIS IS A CAMPAIGN ROOTED IN ALL OF US.

Campaign steering committee