Food Insecurity Resources

Get The Help You Need

Shop at Crimson Cupboard Food Pantry

Crimson Cupboard offers free, healthy food to IU Bloomington students who are struggling with food insecurity.

How it works

Submit a Care Referral

Need some extra help and not sure where to turn? Submit a Care Referral for yourself or someone else.

Submit Here

Request Meal Points

Struggling with hunger while on campus and need IU meal points to get food immediately? Request points that will increase your balance for use at either the McNutt or Forest Eateries.

Request meal points

Fight Food Insecurity

Donate Your Meal Points

IU Students can donate extra meal points to fellow students who are experiencing food insecurity. Your unused points will be donated directly back to students in need.

Donate here

Crimson Cupboard Campus Partners

Campus Kitchens

Campus Kitchens builds boxes for Crimson Cupboard containing fresh vegetables and other food items with information and recipes on how to cook the items for a meal. They also work to bring fresh produce on a weekly basis from IU Campus Farm. The Division of Student Affairs supports graduate assistants to support this partnership.

IU Campus Farm

IU Campus Farm collaborates with Crimson Cupboard by providing fresh produce on a regular basis for Crimson Cupboard shoppers.

Hilltop Gardens

Hilltop Gardens and Crimson Cupboard collaboration includes Hilltop providing fresh produce and Crimson Cupboard sharing the garden's resources/events with pantry shoppers.

Additional Campus Partners:

Crimson Cupboard Community Partners

Hoosier Hills Food Bank provides over four million pounds of food annually to over 100 other non-profits serving people with low incomes and personal challenges, children, and seniors. HHFB distributes food in seven Indiana counties.

Crimson Cupboard leadership is on the Monroe County Food Security Working Group. Here are a few community partners included in this group:

Food Pantries

Area 10 Agency on Aging	Call for appointment—they deliver	630 W Edgewood, Ellettsville	812-876-3383
Bloomington Township Trustee	Tues, Wed, Thurs, 11 – 3, call first	924 W 17th St, Suite C, Bloomington	812-336-4976
Bobby’s Pantry / Perry Township Trustee	Mon – Fri 9 am – 2:30 pm, call first	1010 S Walnut, Bloomington	812-336-3713
Crestmont Community Food Pantry	Thurs 3 – 4:30 pm	1007 N Summit, Bloomington	812-339-3491
Families First Neighborhood Pantry	2nd and 4th Wed each month 2 – 4 pm	540 S Basswood Dr, Bloomington	812-334-8374
Families First Neighborhood Pantry	3rd Mon each month 2 – 4 pm	3660 S Leonard Springs Rd, Bloomington	812-334-8374
Feed the Needy / Second Baptist Church	3rd and 4th Thurs each month 4:30 – 6:30	321 N Rogers, Bloomington	812-336-5827
First United Methodist Church Food Pantry	Wed 3:30 – 5:30 pm	219 E 4th St, Bloomington	812-332-6396
Genesis Church Food Pantry	Last Tues each month 9 – 11:30 am	801 E St Rd 45/46 Bypass	812-336-5757
Grace Center Food Pantry	Thurs 3 – 7 pm	9206 S Old 37, Harrodsburg	812-329-0337
Help Build a Better Life Food Pantry	Call for appointment	2624 S Hickory Leaf, Bloomington	812-865-0686
Knightridge Food Pantry	Call for appointment—they deliver	3575 S Knightridge Rd, Bloomington	812-961-8185
MCUM Self-Sufficiency Center	Mon, Tues, Thurs noon – 4 pm	827 W 14th Ct, Bloomington	812-339-3429
Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard	Tues, Wed, Thurs noon – 2 pm + 4 – 6 pm	1100 W Allen St, Bloomington	812-355-6843
Pantry 279	Mon, Tues, Wed 3 – 6 pm + Sat 1 - 4 pm	501 E Temperance St, Ellettsville	812-606-1524
People’s Open Pantry	Sat 11 am – 1 pm	302 W 2nd St, Bloomington	812-370-0278
St Paul United Methodist Church Food Pantry	Wed 5 - 7 pm	4201 W 3rd St, Bloomington	812-332-4191
Souls Matter Food Pantry	Call for appointment—they deliver	3372 E Moffett Ln, Bloomington	812-325-4309
Redeemer Community Church Food Pantry	Tues, Thurs 2 – 4 pm or call for appointment	111 S Kimble Rd, Bloomington	812-269-8975
Richland Township Trustee	Mon – Fri 8 am – 2 pm	416 S Park St, Ellettsville	812-876-2509
Salvation Army of Bloomington	Wed, Fri 9 – 11:30 am + Tues, Thurs 1 – 3:30 pm	111 N Rogers, Bloomington	812-336-4310
Tabitha’s Storehouse	Last Thurs each month 10 am – 2 pm	421 S Curry Pike, Bloomington	812-336-7224
Walnut Woods Food Pantry	2nd and 4th Fri each month 4 – 5:30 pm	1709 South Park Avenue, Bloomington	812-339-3491

Prepared Meals

Community Kitchen of Monroe County	Mon – Sat 4 – 6 pm	1515 S Rogers, Bloomington	812-332-0999
Community Kitchen Express	Mon – Sat 4 – 6 pm	1100 W 11th St, Bloomington	812-332-0999
Shalom Center	7 days/week 8 – 9 am + noon – 1:30 pm	620 S Walnut, Bloomington	812-334-5728
Wheeler Mission	7 days/week noon – 1 pm + 5 – 6 pm	215 S Westplex Ave, Bloomington	812-333-1905