Helping Hands Pantry Riverside

Organizations and movements evolve over time and this is also true of Helping Hands Pantry. We started out wanting to help our neighbors in need in the local community. Then when we saw how much need there is and how little we were impacting the problem. We made a couple of commitments — to go to where the people who needed us were, and to do all we could not to turn anyone away intentionally or unintentionally. This change in mission led us to moving to the Norton neighborhoods, where some of the greatest need in the country exists, to being open 5 days a week, and making sure that even the last person to come through the door every day got a comparable amount of food to the first who crossed the threshold. This had two major effects; first, wait times went from the typical pantry times of an hour or more to less than ten minutes as people came to realize that they did not have to line up and wait for a long time in order to get food. Secondly, we grew to where we are serving 7,000 to 10,000 people a week. Volunteer With Us! Volunteers are needed in every aspect of our operation, from our pantry garden where we grow fresh produce to be handed out, to warehouse, office work, delivery, and more. We even have a mobile food bank called Living On The Streets that goes out to the homeless in the Inland Empire. If you want to help others and apply as a volunteer, please, go to page https://helpinghandspantry.org/volunteers/ Our website is https://helpinghandspantry.org/, email is info@helpinghandspantry.org, contact phone is ​909-796-4222