Jan Pruitt Community Pantry now open in Lancaster, Texas

Supporters gathered to pay tribute to one of North Texas' most passionate hunger fighters: the late Jan Pruitt, at the site where she started her career. The former Lancaster Outreach Center will be known as the Jan Pruitt Community Pantry in homage to the woman who believed that we should all be the change we wish to see in the world.

The Jan Pruitt Community Pantry was made possible thanks to a unique collaboration between the Food Bank, Catholic Charities Dallas and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of North Texas. 

The organization's leadership set ambitious goals for the Jan Pruitt Community Pantry, including providing neighbors in need with more than one million pounds of nutritious food per year by the third year of operation, serving more than 1,000 families. Establishing this pantry is part of the Food Bank’s broader strategic goal of providing access to 92 million meals by 2025 by helping the more than 800,000 people in North Texas who don’t know where their next nutritious meal is coming from.

The Food Bank and our partners would like to thank the many donors to our Capital Campaign, Stop Hunger Build Hope, who helped make this honor possible including the dedicated board of the Food Bank. Thanks to their belief in our mission, our hungry neighbors in Lancaster and the surrounding areas will be able to access the healthy foods that they need to thrive. 

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