Hancock County Food Drive

The Hancock County Food Drive, which runs April 1-30, is an annual month-long food collection and fundraising project that supports food pantries, free meal programs, and school backpack programs across Hancock County. Every spring, organizations a part of the Hancock County Food Security Network work together to raise funds and collect food providing critical assistance to Mainers at a time of year when food insecurity rates are at their highest. More than one in ten Maine households goes without suitably nutritious food making Maine the most food insecure state in New England. Childhood food insecurity rates in our region are even higher: more than one in six children in Hancock County live in food-insecure households. By building resources for food assistance programs, the Food Drive helps ensure that everyone in our community has access to nutritious, affordable food.

The Hancock County Food Drive is organized by the Hancock County Food Security Network, Healthy Acadia, and Heart of Maine United Way, with generous support from Maine Community Foundation, Star 97.7, and Cooperative Extension. Learn more at https://www.hcfooddrive.org.

The Food Drive supports these Hancock County food security programs:

All food drive donations are evenly distributed among these 18 participating food assistance programs in Hancock County:

  • Bar Harbor Food Pantry

  • Bread of Life Food Pantry

  • Community Compass

  • Eagle’s Nest Clubhouse

  • Emmaus Homeless Shelter

  • Everybody Eats Free Community Meals

  • Hancock Grammar School BackPack Program

  • Healthy Island Project

  • Healthy Peninsula

  • H.O.M.E. Inc.

  • Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry

  • MDI BackPack Program

  • Open Table MDI

  • RSU25 Friday Food Program

  • Schoodic Food Pantry

  • Simmering Pot

  • The Welcome Table

  • What’s For Suppa? Food Pantry

100% of your donation goes toward feeding people in our community!

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Thank you to all who made the 14th Annual Hancock County Food Drive a success! Stay tuned for the full report coming soon.

If your business or organization is interested in collecting food or becoming a Hancock County Food Drive sponsor in 2026, please contact Eleanor Jones at (207) 667-7171 or eleanor.jones@healthyacadia.org or visit www.hcfooddrive.org. 

Continue the fight against hunger by making a donation to a food security organization in your community. Click here to find a food pantry or meal program near you. Help bring local produce to these organizations by volunteering with the Gleaning Initiative, which collects surplus fruits and vegetables from farms and redistributes the fresh produce to food assistance programs.

Food security organizations need your support throughout the year

Financial donations go further to feed our hungry neighbors. According to Good Shepherd Food Bank, every $1 donated can help provide two nourishing, culturally relevant meals and support for programs that build a future where all Mainers are food secure.

To support the Hancock County Food Drive at any point throughout the year. Please make your check or money order payable to Heart of Maine United Way, write "HC Food Drive" in the memo line, and mail your donation to 700 Main Street, Suite 1, Bangor, ME 04401.

Learn more by visiting the project’s Facebook page (@hcfooddrive), or by contacting Eleanor Jones, Healthy Acadia’s Hancock County Food Programs Manager, at eleanor.jones@healthyacadia.org, or (207) 667-7171.

More ways you can help

Volunteer

Contact a food security organization serving your community to find out how you can help. 

Updated July 11, 2025