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Phone: (417) 865-3411
Fax: (417) 865-0504

O’Reilly Center for Hunger Relief
2810 N. Cedarbrook Ave.
P.O. Box 5746
Springfield, MO 65801-5746


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Host a community food drive

You can help collect food & funds for Ozarks Food Harvest’s 250 food pantries and feeding sites across 28 southwest Missouri counties.

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Host a Squeaky Clean Hygiene Drive:

OFH’s Backpack Program provides food bags for more than 1,000 children every weekend of the entire school year. Once a month, the backpacks contain hygiene kits, and The Food Bank needs your help to collect these items for the 2012–13 school year. Travel-size soap, shampoo, toothpaste and toothbrushes are needed, or Fund Drives can be hosted (OFH can purchase each kit for $2). To set up your Hygiene or Fund Drive, contact Sara McClendon at (417) 865-3411, ext. 120.

hygiene drive

Most Needed Items:

  • Boxed & canned meals (soup, macaroni and cheese, Hamburger Helper, potato dinners, pasta salads)
  • Canned meat (tuna, chicken & Spam)
  • Frozen hamburger or other frozen meats
  • Pork and beans
  • Canned fruit
  • Canned vegetables
  • Pasta & canned spaghetti sauce
  • Peanut butter & jelly
  • Baking essentials:
    • Flour
    • Sugar
    • Salt & pepper
    • Spices
    • Oil
  • Condiments:
    • Ketchup
    • Mustard
    • BBQ sauce & others
  • Paper products:
    • Paper plates
    • Napkins
    • Utensils
    • Cups

No glass, please.

Register your food drive

Please complete the form, and our food drive coordinator will contact you shortly to confirm food drive details and discuss logistics.

Ozarks Food Harvest has specially sized boxes, barrels or totes—and food drive posters—available for your use, but cannot deliver the receptacles to you. Please call 417-865-3411 to arrange pick up at The Food Bank at 2810 N. Cedarbrook in Springfield between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Barrel and tote quantities are limited.

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Food Bank staff will weigh your final donations so you can report exactly how much your organization collected! Thank you for saving Ozarks Food Harvest the pick-up of your food drive. For food drives 300 lbs or larger, arrangements may be made for pick-up, but please allow 2–3 days.

Questions? Contact Sara McClendon at (417) 865-3411, ext. 120.

If you are conducting a food drive, you can feed even more by hosting an additional Virtual Food Drive, too!