2025 Food Assistance and Awareness Program
Madly Good’s program initiatives focus on food assistance and helping our local communities. We need your support. Please consider donating to help us tackle the ongoing problem of food insecurity. This year has had an even greater impact on those who are already struggling or have found themselves with less access to food. These issues will continue well past 2025 and we will need your help as we continue to help everyone in our communities to receive healthy food for them and their families.
Cincinnati Community Helper
Listings of food assistance services, events and how you can help; all in the palm of your hand. Madly Good manages the community helper website to help share important up-to-date information for local events and local resources. The site will continue to list winter giving programs including coat drives and toy drives throughout the tri-state area and close to home.
Events - Pack the Pantry!
Madly Good is hosting a food drive! You can donate canned, non-perishable foods or a monetary donation. We will be stocking local little pantries where residents have immediate access to these items. Click here for more info and locations in Cincinnati.
Local Food Resources - Communication and Outreach
Madly Good is partnering again this year with Central Ohio River Valley (CORV)! The CORV initiative is a grassroots effort to connect community members with local growers and fresh, healthy local food. It aims to promote self-sufficiency, sustainability, and the wise use of resources as we build a vibrant local food system. We are producing their 2024 Local Food Guide as well as helping them to share their important message. View the 2024 Guide.
FACTS:
• 148,570 (18.5%) of people in Hamilton County are food insecure.
• 40,250 (21.1%) of children in Hamilton County are food insecure.
• 62% of children in Hamilton County are living in families that are income-eligible for nutrition assistance.
• Cincinnati ranked 3rd (behind Cleveland and Detroit) in the country for child poverty.