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As Milwaukee’s basic needs bank, we partner with local social service agencies to provide a reliable source of basic essentials for the families they serve.
We do not provide direct service to families. If you are in need of diapers or period products, please visit or contact one of the organizations listed below.
Nourish MKE is the largest network of community food centers in Milwaukee. We provide encouraging spaces to select free quality foods, and explore nutrition and wellbeing. The foods are thoughtfully sourced to offer options and reduce waste. We’re always looking for valuable ways to love our community, which is why we go out of our way to meet people where they’re at. When we join together, we are nourished and help each other grow.
Mitchell (serves all Milwaukee zip codes)
1615 S. 22nd Street Milwaukee, WI 53204 SAT 10am-12pm
Orchard (serves the 53204 zip code)
209 W. Orchard Street Milwaukee, WI 53204 TU/TH 12:30pm-2:30pm & WED 4pm-6pm
Fond du lac (serves the 53223, 53224, and 53225 zip codes)
10230 W. Fond Du Lac Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53224 TUE 5pm-7pm & SAT 10am-12pm
Vliet (serves the 53205 zip code)
1220 W. Vliet Street Milwaukee, WI 53205 WED-FRI 9am-12pm
Home Delivery is a pantry program that provides once-a-month food delivery to those in our community with disabilities or health conditions that prevent them from leaving their homes.
Cross Lutheran Church food pantry provides fresh produce, fresh dairy, and baked goods that the guests may shop for. We give each pantry guest a bag of non-perishable food, a bag of meats, and a healthy bagged lunch. Personal hygiene items are provided, as available. We provide health and wellness education, nutrition and healthy cooking demonstrations, with food samples. Delivery may be available for people that are unable to attend the pantry.
Serves all Milwaukee zip codes.
1821 N 16th St, Milwaukee, WI 53205
2nd and 4th Wednesday, 11am-1 pm
clc@crosslutheranmilwaukee.org 414-344-1746
The Jewish Community Pantry, an effort co-sponsored by the JCC and the Women’s Philanthropy of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, provides emergency food to individuals and families in crisis throughout the greater Milwaukee community. Connecting clients to community resources, while increasing our community’s awareness of hunger’s impact and working to alleviate its impact, the Pantry is our Jewish communal response to hunger in Milwaukee.
2900 W. Center Street Milwaukee, WI 53210
Tuesday 4pm-6pm Thursday 9am–12pm
This pantry serves the 53210 and 53216 zip codes.
Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish food security and wellness, foster belonging, and community engagement, and empower stability and economic prosperity in our city. Kinship Community Food Center envisions a community where all are nourished, all of us belong, and all of us can prosper.
St. Casimir’s Church Parking Lot
924 E Clarke St. Milwaukee, WI 53212
Tuesday 4-6pm Saturday 8:30-10:30am
This pantry serves the 53202, 53203, 53211, 53212 and 53217 zip codes.
The Bay View Community Center brings people together to build community as an inclusive, independent, community-supported, nonprofit organization.
1320 E. Oklahoma Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53207
Tuesday 4-6pm Wednesday 4-6pm Friday 1:30-4pm
This pantry serves the 53207, 53221, 53235 and 53215 zip codes.
Jim Luther New Hope Center is a community based and primarily volunteer run organization.
We are a choice pantry located on the South Side of Milwaukee. We provide assistance with short-term food insecurity by providing fresh produce, food staples, culturally relevant foods, baby formula, and basic hygiene supplies for our pantry clients. We also provide relevant resources to other basic needs within the community.
1414 W Becher St, Milwaukee, WI 53215
Tuesdays 12:30- 2:30pm Wednesday 4- 6pm
JLutherNHC@gmail.com 414-909-9223
Fathers Making Progress
Our movement services families primarily through creating spaces of learning, support, and growth for fathers. The fathers we help become integral parts of their family and their communities. FMP works to ensure that fathers have pathways and opportunities for community leadership because STRONG FATHERS create STRONG FAMILIES and that creates STRONG COMMUNITIES.
1531 W Vliet St, Milwaukee, WI 53205
Contactthemovement@Fathersmakingprogress.org
414-338-DADZ
Hanan Refugees Relief Group’s mission is to provide compassionate long and short-term solutions for refugees and other vulnerable populations. We mobilize resources for long-term health, education and economic development to help refugees become contributing members of their new communities, as well as to return the dignity they need to strengthen themselves and their families. Hanan RRG serves people of all backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, religions and orientations.
3927 S Howell Avenue Suite 103, Milwaukee, WI 53207
Friday 9am-12pm
414-800-4168
Sojourner Family Peace Center
The mission of Sojourner is to transform lives impacted by domestic violence. As the most comprehensive provider of domestic violence prevention and intervention services in Wisconsin, Sojourner serves nearly 10,000 clients each year with crisis housing, system advocacy and individual support. For 50 years, our primary goals have been to ensure the safety of victims of family violence and remain committed to creating communities where people live peacefully.
619 W. Walnut Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212
414-276-1911
Metcalfe Park Community Bridges
In our work with partners and each other, we commit to:
Put the community first.
Practice leadership with, rather than over, each other.
Ensure Metcalfe Park residents are active participants in and beneficiaries of its development.
Engage youth and residents as equal partners in decision-making and co-create opportunities with them in mind.
Work together over the long term to redevelop and reinvigorate Metcalfe Park.
3624 W. North Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53208
414-533-7532
Dominican Center works with Amani residents and partners to build a better future. We provide essential needs and offer Adult Education programming, hydroponics programming and we serve as a convener for the Amani neighborhood, connecting residents to resources and partner services in the resident-identified areas of Housing & Economic Development, Education & Family Well-Being and Neighborhood Safety.
2470 W. Locust St, Milwaukee, WI 53206
(414) 444-9930
Monday-Friday 9am-3pm, or by appointment. Our staff is currently hybrid and can be reached by cell phone or email.
Wellpoint Care Network has been a local human-services provider for nearly as long as Milwaukee has existed as a city. What began as caring for children who lost parents to the cholera epidemic, has blossomed into an array of services for children, youth, adults and families.
8901 W. Capitol Drive Milwaukee, WI 53222
(414) 463-1880
The Muskego Way Forward Initiative connects residents, partners and resources around residents’ hopes for the Muskego Way neighborhood, building on existing people and places to strengthen the neighborhood, create opportunity and build leadership. This work is resident driven, staffed and supported by the Milwaukee Christian Center. We embrace a vision of neighbors that seek to grow confidence, support, ownership and sense of community among one another.
Program Coordinator Alison Henderson | 414-502-7199 ahenderson@mccwi.org
Initiative Coordinator Elizabeth Ramirez | 414-215-9905 eramirez@mccwi.org
*Se Habla Español.
Missionary Currie for Women and Children is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women and families through access to basic needs, housing resources, financial literacy workshops, and community support programs. We serve low-income mothers, teen moms, women fleeing domestic violence, and individuals experiencing crisis by providing diapers, wipes, food, and wraparound services in a compassionate, faith-based environment.
Pantry visits by appointment only.
missionarycurrieinc@gmail.com
UW-Milwaukee Food Center and Pantry
During Fall 2016, the Student Association conducted a campus wide survey addressing food insecurity. From those survey results, we learned that roughly 50% of UWM students report not having enough food to eat. For some, this might seem like a surprising statistic, but for half of the UWM student population, this is their reality.
Our mission is to ensure that the entire UWM community has access to nutritious food and key necessities in a welcoming and educational space. We collect demographic information and a variety of other data to improve processes and ensure that it is equitable, inclusive and accessible to meet the needs of the UWM diverse student population.
UWM Student Union Room 348
Mondays 9am-12pm Wednesdays 1:30pm-5pm Thursdays 10am-12pm Fridays 11am-1pm
**Must a UW-Milwaukee student to visit this site**
MATC FAST Fund is an independent, faculty-run non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) students experiencing economic emergencies so they remain enrolled and graduate. We help with basic needs such as assistance with rent, transportation, utilities, childcare and more. Our goal is to assist students fast without making them jump through hoops by getting them aid within 24-48 hours.
1027 N. 7th Street Foundation Hall 8th floor Milwaukee, WI 53233
Monday-Friday 8am-4pm
**Must be an MATC student to visit this site**
MATC Student Resource Center is here to help you reach your academic, professional and personal goals by connecting you to the support you need on campus and in the community. The center is home to the college’s food pantry along with our Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) team and on-site partners, including the Center for Driver’s License Recovery, FSET (Foodshare, Employment and Training), Legal Action of Wisconsin, Transitional Housing Assistance and the UWM Educational Opportunity Center. Stop in — or connect virtually — and our friendly, knowledgeable staff members will connect you with these teams, partners or other organizations!
1027 N. 7th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233
Tuesday-Thursday 10am-6pm Friday 8am-4 pm
**Must be an MATC student to visit this site**
Rooted & Rising (formerly United Methodist Children’s Services) has a deep commitment to and long-standing presence in Milwaukee’s Washington Park neighborhood, where it has provided a wide range of social service programs and assistance to low-income, marginalized families, including affordable housing, community health promotion, community organizing, emergency food center and family resource center, social work and childcare.
3940 W Lisbon Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53208
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm
414-344-1818
Penfield Children’s Center
As a leader in child development, Penfield Children’s Center helps children with and without disabilities reach their full potential by providing early education, health and wellness services, and family programs. Today, we serve more than 1,500 children annually by offering high-quality services in a safe and stimulating environment.
*Families must be enrolled in the home visitation program to receive services from Penfield Children’s Center.
The Cathedral Center
Providing a safe environment for women & families while working to end homelessness one life at a time.
845 N Van Buren St, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Open every day 8am-5pm
414-831-0394
Next Door Milwaukee
Next Door supports the intellectual, physical and emotional development of children by partnering with their families for success in school and the community.
Next Door serves nearly 1,400 children a year from birth to five years old through two center-based sites, a home visitation program and 11 partnership sites in Milwaukee County.
*Families must be enrolled in the home visitation program to receive services from Next Door.
Hmong American Women’s Association
Mission: To organize SEA women, girls, Queer and Trans people to champion gender justice and collective liberation.
3030 W Highland Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53208
Our Community Closet is open to the community by appointment only. Monday through Friday 9:00AM — 4:00PM
*Call 414‑930‑9352 to schedule an appointment.
The Findley Foundation assists individuals in becoming healthy, healed, and whole by providing vocational training & education, case management, health and behavioral health services. Diapers will be distributed via their permanent and pop-up medical clinics.
10721 W Capitol Dr Ste 110/210, Wauwatosa, WI 53222
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
414-988-3079
The Robyn’s Nest - a program of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
The Robyn's Nest houses new and gently used clothing, hygiene products, infant items, toys, books, and other household goods. The Robyn's Nest provides these items free to the families within our foster care system as well as those identified to have unmet needs through Children's Wisconsin.
414-231-4820
*Please contact the Milwaukee office to determine if staff can access Robyn’s Nest resources for you or your client.
Dad Doula
A non-birthing parent course that is designed to empower and guide fathers as they learn to support and advocate for their birthing partners by sharing stories, tools, resources and social emotional strategies to promote the pursuit of healthy babies and families.
(706)304-1360
Josh@melanateddaddy.com
Birth Outcomes Made Better (B.O.M.B.) Doula Program
Doulas are trained professionals who provide non-clinical emotional, physical and informational support for birthing people, before, during and after labor and birth. During the prenatal period doulas share resources and information about the labor process, facilitate positive communication and promote the birthing person’s self-advocacy. During labor and birth doulas provide hands-on comfort measures to assist with pain management, troubleshooting with medical providers and support of your birth plan. Doulas also provide post-partum support to help with transitions into parenting, breastfeeding, postpartum medical cares and more!
Who is eligible to participate in this program? The program works with mothers at or before 30 weeks pregnant through birth and 12 weeks postpartum. This program primarily serves residents of the City of Milwaukee. The program is no cost and for any age.
Contact the City of Milwaukee Health Department's Central Intake and Referral line at (414) 286-8620
Office of Early Childhood Initiatives
The Welcome to Milwaukee program distributes care packages to the families of babies born at the St. Joseph Campus of Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital. The packages arm parents with information about early brain development, plus the resources they need to put it into practice. So every baby can start life poised to thrive.
*Families must give birth at St. Joseph’s Hospital to receive services from Welcome to Milwaukee.