Food Resources

SSCAC fights hunger, promotes nutrition, and increases equitable food access by collecting and distributing 425,000 pounds of fresh and non-perishable food each year. 

Our Food Resources Program works primarily as a food bank to supply and help sustain pantries, soup kitchens, and other emergency food providers throughout Plymouth County.

SSCAC also distributes food directly to individuals and families in need through our Early Education program and our mobile pantry partnership with the Plymouth Family Resource Center.

Where to Get Help

SSCAC operates its mobile pantry from 12:30 - 2:30 on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month

in partnership with the Plymouth Family Resource Center (430 Court St., Plymouth).

If you need help we food, stop by our mobile pantry for pantry staples and fresh ingredients for a family meal.

Click the button below or call Project Bread's Food Source Hotline for information about

food pantries, soup kitchens, and other meal providers in the region.

Project Bread's Food Source Hotline is also great help with:

• Finding out if you are eligible for SNAP (financial assistance for groceries) and help you apply. 
• Finding free meals for your kids in your community
• Learning about how to use your HIP benefits
• Finding meal programs and food pantries 

The Food Source Hotline can be reached at 800-645-8333 from 8am-7pm Monday-Friday, and Saturdays from 10am-2pm, and can provide information in 160 languages.

Project Bread has also compiled a list of MA meal sites where children and families can access food during school closures. For the most up-to-date information they have available, visit meals4kids.org/summer.

SSCAC's Food Distribution Center

In the fall of 2002, SSCAC's Food Resources program formed its own Food Distribution Center with the goal of getting more nutritious food to more hungry people in the most cost-effective way.

Our Food Distribution Center serves as the hub where we collect, sort, inventory, store, and distribute 425,000 pounds of fresh and non-perishable food each year to over 60 emergency food providers throughout Plymouth County. Working together, we provide food to roughly 9,500 children, elderly, and families every year.

Food Comes In

Nearly all of the food that we collect is donated by compassionate individuals, organizations, community groups, and businesses all doing their part to Team Up Against Hunger and feed those in need.

Food Drives hosted by schools, libraries, restaurants, businesses, grocery stores, clubs, neighborhoods, and office complexes. Donations can be dropped off at our Food Distribution Center at 71 Obery St. in Plymouth on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00AM - Noon.

March Mania Food Drive Tournament hosted by SSCAC with area businesses, schools, and community groups competing head to head in a bracket-style tournament to see which team can collect the most food donations. To participate, contact us at food@sscac.org.

Community Donation Bins are conveniently located at area grocers where donations can be dropped off.

Food Recovery by local restaurants, grocers, bakeries, and food manufacturers who rescue and donate prepared and fresh perishable food that would otherwise go to waste.

Healthy Harvest farm-fresh produce grown and donated by the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Agricultural Program.

Greater Boston Food Bank SSCAC purchases food from the Greater Boston Food Bank and assists area food pantries by facilitating receipt and distribution of food they order from the GBFB.

SSCAC Distributes food free-of-charge to over 60 emergency food assistance providers throughout Plymouth County who come to our Center each week to pick up food to bring back to their home communities for distribution to food-insecure residents. We distribute food to:

• Food pantries
• Soup kitchens
• Councils on Aging
• Head Start programs
• Low-income housing
• Senior housing developments
• Boys & Girls Clubs
• Public schools
• Homeless shelters and services