I have been coming here for about four years now. I have always been treated with respect, and the…read morevolunteers are sweet, kind, and caring towards me. I appreciate everything you do for my family and myself. If you are coming, I recommend you bring lunch, and prepare to wait about an hour, sometimes a bit more. You have to wait across the street at the drive in. But it's worth the wait almost every time. Thank you once again.

From the owner: Hope for Hunger Food Bank is operated by Phoenix Rescue Mission, where we provide Christ-centered,…read morelife-transforming support to neighbors experiencing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma. As the largest food bank in Glendale, Hope for Hunger helps meet a vital need across the Valley by offering nutritious food and encouragement to families in need. Anyone is welcome. The only requirement is a valid ID.

I enjoy volunteering whenever I can. I had signed up to do some volunteer work with a team in…read moreanother country. But before heading out on our trip, we decided to come here first to do some team building so that we could get to know each other. Midwest Food Bank is a faith-based organization. Their mission is to alleviate hunger and malnutrition locally and throughout the world and provide disaster relief. It is a great place for groups, families and individuals to come and volunteer at. Sign up is easy and they have daily shifts available to help pack and organize food boxes in their warehouse. They make it simple to find a shift that works best for your schedule. When you arrive and check in, Midwest Food Bank shows a video about the organization and explains how food will be packaged. Volunteers are then assigned to different stations. Because you are working with food, hand washing is required and so is wearing a hair net (they provide them). The staff here at Midwest Food Bank is great and they making volunteering fun. It is a great place to bring your kids too! Midwest Food Bank currently distributes nearly $40 million worth of food to over 2,200 non-profit organizations each month.

Midwest truly is the best food bank out there. They're so kind and thorough. They love to help…read moreothers and I feel like their organization is top notch. I'm so grateful I've been able to help out for the last 5 years. Thank you to the team always

This store is not only a great place to shop value-wise and community help-wise, but they make it…read moreeasy to donate your items too to help you declutter and they can come right to you for pick up! Contact Joseph by text for easy appointment setting: (623) 455-2911. Joseph and his assistant showed up exactly when he said he would be there and moved everything out swiftly and carefully. I was SO impressed at the professionalism.

As much as I hate to run down a place that gives me free food, I have to say it would be difficult…read moreto come up with a less efficient system than this place has. Walk in. The two girls at the desk are jibber-jabbering with each other. One looks up long enough to say "Take a number". Take a number and sit down. They continue their conversation. Other people come in. Some are told to take numbers, while others are allowed to have extended conversations with the clerks. How they determine who gets immediate service and who has to wait is a mystery. After a time, one girl gets up and wanders off somewhere, while the other talks on the phone. This goes on for a while until they call your number, at which time you show them your ID and they look you up in the system, hand you a card and tell you to go park your car around the side of the building. While you wait, other cars pull up, have their boxes loaded almost immediately, while you sit there and wait. And wait. Finally someone comes out and sticks a box of food in your car and life goes on.

I volunteered at St. Mary's Food Bank last week with my colleagues. This was one event that was…read moretruly fun, rewarding, and meaningful for building camaraderie among staff members WHILE serving. I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve the community while also representing an organization dedicated to service. I also want to give a special shout-out to the St. Mary's Food Bank staff for their exceptional organization and warm welcome. Joseph, in particular, was fantastic. He made the experience lighthearted while still keeping us in line (pun not intended) and he even took song requests from Prince Fans (Purple Rain). Thank you to the entire St. Mary's team for all you do, and for providing opportunities that not only support the community, but also help other teams grow stronger together. Sincerely, a visiting Minnesotan.

I do not partake in distributions from St. Mary's Food Bank. I stay out of the right lane…read moreoneastbound Thomas Road east of NAPA Automotive on morning drives. And we contribute. I once lived in a bountiful where an immense freezer could be filled with earth's goodness of vegetables and fruits for a small expense in miles and cash. Not that easy in Arizona. The freezer was donated to St. Mary's - and welcomed. We keep our pantry stocked. When the "Best By" dates geow near on pantry goods, they are donated to St. Mary's and refreshed. I want to contribute quality to those less blessed than I have been. And, St. Mary's, being a religious organization charity, blesses families, and individuals with the foundation of living - food. A good value for all.

I have never been more humiliated in all my life than I was today at approximately 11:05AM! After…read moreshowing great concern about a young child that was clearly not being supervised by an adult, I was denied a food box. I was denied by the supervisor stating that I had already received food twice this month. I am NOT a food stamp recipient, in fact I was on the phone with DES at the time that I was called up and informed him of that fact. I am attempting to help my family any way I can. The supervisor denied us even an emergency food box. The heartless guy referred me to St. Mary's Food Bank which is many miles away from Desert Mission (where I was after having waited in line), even more miles away from my home. End result, I was unable to drive the extra 10+ miles to get to St. Mary's. I have very little gas, absolutely no money and a bald tire (very unsafe to make that trip). My family will go hungry this evening and this completely unacceptable. If the option of ZERO stars were available, that's what my review would firmly be after this inappropriate conduct.

i called back the next day to give a donation to help pay for the meals she provided and to thank…read morethem for helping us since it was AZ Gives Day. The woman I talked to was delightful.

The Community Farmer's Market is held in the Food Bank parking lot. After reading about it in our…read morelocal newspaper, i wanted to visit. There were many assorted vendors selling food items and home improvement. I tried a sample of a chocolate orange cookie. Delicious! I had to have one! The vendor has a club for cookie lovers. This was a good sized farmer's market. The vendor I spoke to said it was even larger usually. I tried some homemade pesto and that was just as delicious. I visited just in time. This was the last market of the year until September. I will make a note on my iCal to visit again then. Plenty of parking.

I want to be honest about how difficult it is to write this review, because for years I would have…read moregiven Foothills Food Bank five stars without hesitation. In fact, as a journalist, I wrote about this organization multiple times -- praising precisely the qualities that made it exceptional: the personalized service, the genuine warmth of its volunteers, the remarkable sense of community it fostered among its clients. I meant every word of it. My 73-year-old mother, who lives with several physical disabilities, and I have been clients for several years. What the food bank gave us went far beyond food. It gave us community -- something rare and genuinely difficult to find. My mother, whose world has been narrowed considerably by disability, formed real friendships with the Tuesday morning volunteers. They knew her by name. They asked about her week. When she recently suffered a series of medical emergencies, those volunteers reached out personally to check on her progress. That is the organization I experienced and believed in. That organization no longer exists in the same form. A recently implemented scheduling policy now prohibits clients from visiting on the same day of the week in consecutive weeks -- regardless of whether appointments are available. For clients with flexible schedules, this is a minor inconvenience. For clients whose medical conditions, disabilities, caregiving obligations, or work schedules permit only one specific day, it is a removal of access with no alternative offered. Missing one week under this policy doesn't simply cost you that week -- the structure of the policy makes it impossible to schedule the following week either, leaving vulnerable clients with no viable path back. At least three clients I know personally have already given up on the food bank entirely as a result. My mother and I are facing the same reality. I documented these harms in careful detail and brought them formally to the executive director and the board president. The executive director's response defended the policy without acknowledging a single concrete harm I described. I followed up with a detailed letter addressing the specific failures in that response. It has gone unanswered. What makes this especially painful is the stark contrast between the people who show up every week to serve clients and the administration that governs them. I want to be clear that none of this reflects on the volunteers, who remain extraordinary. The Tuesday morning team -- the people who know clients by name, who ask about their families, who go out of their way to make everyone feel seen and valued -- are the soul of what this organization was built to be. The failure here belongs entirely to the administration, which has demonstrated through both this policy and its response to client concerns that it views the people it serves not as individuals with unique and legitimate needs, but as numbers to be managed and distributed. The volunteers deserve better leadership. So do the clients. The cruelest irony of this policy is that the very circumstances that make someone most vulnerable -- chronic illness, disability, inflexible employment, caregiving obligations -- are now the circumstances that make them least able to comply with its requirements. Their need itself has become the disqualifier. People are going without food not because supplies are short, but because a poorly conceived and abruptly implemented scheduling rule is in the way -- and the organization's leadership has demonstrated neither the intention nor the urgency to fix it. I still believe in what this food bank was. I no longer have confidence in what it is becoming. And I think anyone considering donating to, volunteering for, or relying on this organization deserves to know that the community and care it was once famous for are being quietly dismantled -- one displaced client at a time.

It was my first time to volunteer and I felt soooo good, knowing that I was part of a little…read morecommunity and helping others-- to make it happen! We were all pack the good bags for 3,000 bags and it was the fast track as everyone tried their bags to make sure everything went very well. The staffs here( at this location specifically) are super friendly and they are well organized which make the work run smoothly. If anyone looking for volunteering and not sure which one to start, try the United Food Bank, helping our community--together we can achieve more :) I will definitely be there again soon.

This is a partner food bank with United Way and we had the chance to volunteer here over the…read moreweekend. Our task was to sort foods into various categories in order for the Food Bank to be able to fill order requests for various distribution sites (such as other food banks, domestic violence centers, homeless shelters, etc.). Our shift was from 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. and everything was started on time with an intro into the purpose of the bank and the purpose of United Way overall. We broke out into "teams" and were assigned tasks from there and everything got underway. By 11 a.m. we had wrapped up all of the food needing to be sorted / boxed and we were able to leave early. Notes: wear weather appropriate clothes (it's not climate controlled) and wear closed toes shoes for safety Overall: A It's a charity and it's a chance to volunteer and give back - what's not to love??