Food Resources

SSCAC fights hunger and promotes nutrition by collecting and distributing a half million pounds of food to Plymouth County emergency food providers each year. 

Our Food Resources Program works as a food bank to collect and distribute food to pantries, soup kitchens, and other emergency food providers throughout Plymouth County.

SSCAC is not a food pantry. Instead, we collect donations and supply food to area pantries and meal providers so they can focus on feeding people in need.

Where to Get Help

Click the button below for a list of 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 a half million pounds of fresh and non-perishable food each year to over 70 emergency food providers throughout Plymouth County. Working together, we provide food to roughly 8,000 children, elderly, and families every month.

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 and Community Donation Bins hosted by schools, libraries, restaurants, businesses, grocery stores, clubs, neighborhoods, and office complexes. Community Donation Bins are conveniently located throughout the region where donations can be dropped off.

Donation Drop-off at our Food Distribution Center:

71 Obery St. Plymouth

Mondays: 9:00AM - Noon

Wednesdays: 9:00AM - Noon

Fridays: 9:00AM - Noon

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 food ordered by SSCAC and partner pantries at discounted prices. We assist area food pantries by facilitating receipt and distribution of food they order from the GBFB. 

SSCAC DISTRIBUTES FOOD – free-of-charge - to over 70 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