Weekly Food Assistance

The Coralville Community Food Pantry maintains a member-choice food distribution model, any community member can visit the pantry once a week to freely select food and personal care items that best suit their unique needs. To avoid unnecessary barriers, the only qualification to receive assistance is to be a Coralville, Tiffin, or Oxford resident. We know that hunger is unpredictable and can affect individuals of any income level, employment status, race, age, gender, ability, or sexual orientation. The pantry offers food assistance four times a week; on Tuesdays from 2-6pm, Wednesdays from 4-6 pm, Thursdays from 11:30 am- 1:30 pm, Fridays from 11-1pm (for Seniors 60+ or individuals with limited mobility), and Saturdays from 10:30am-1pm. The average household visits the pantry twice a month and selects 55 pounds of food per visit.

If you cannot visit the food pantry, please place a request for a home delivery.

School Break Nutrition

A break from school shouldn’t mean a break from food. Many Coralville families with limited resources count on free school breakfasts and the Free & Reduced Lunch Program to ensure that their children receive adequate nourishment. The goal of the food pantry's School Break Nutrition Program is to prevent childhood hunger in the Coralville community when school is not in session. Through special food distributions that take place during school breaks, the pantry provides client families with a week's worth of breakfast and lunch foods for every child in the household.

Free Community Meal

Food is about more than survival—it’s about building community. The Free Community Meal is our intentional effort to de-stigmatize hunger and poverty by bringing together our entire community around the same dinner table. In addition to providing a free and nourishing meal, this program offers opportunities for individuals from different backgrounds to prepare, serve, and eat, as well as listen, learn, and teach alongside one another. Each meal draws between 300-600 attendees.

Veggie Connect

Everyone deserves access to high quality, locally grown food! The primary goal of our Veggie Conncetprogram is to connect our most vulnerable neighbors with the food and the power to improve their health. The program is highly collaborative—we partner with three other food access agencies, Johnson County Local Foods office, and four local farms to provide 40 pantry families with their own CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share each season.

Learn more about Veggie Connect here.

Seed Library

The food pantry’s Seed Library promotes gardening and healthy food choices by making heirloom vegetable seeds freely available to food pantry clients and community gardeners. The goal of this project is twofold: 1) to empower pantry clients to grow their own food by providing vital materials, tools, and information, and 2) to encourage community members to grow and donate fresh produce to pantry. In 2021, over 1,000 seed packets were distributed.