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September 19, 2024 2024 Giving Guide

Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine

2025 Goals

Good Shepherd Food Bank and 600 hunger-relief organizations, community members, staff, and supporters are actively working toward a new bold vision: everyone in Maine is food secure. Guided by a recently completed strategic plan, which will take the organization through 2030, and in partnership with the state of Maine’s Ending Hunger Roadmap, the Food Bank is committed to providing the nutritious meals people experiencing hunger need today, while partnering to address the root causes of hunger for the future.

No one should go hungry, but through a collective, societal response, we can end hunger and ensure that all Mainers have the food they need to live a full and healthy life.

Fundraising events/Opportunities

  • Create a Virtual Food Drive: Learn more about this creative way to engage employees, clients and other groups in working towards a future where all Mainers are food secure.

  • Design your own unique community fundraiser to help raise funds and awareness about the issue of food insecurity in our state.

  • Host a cause-marketing campaign by donating a portion of your product sales.

  • Tune into the Feed Maine Telethon with NEWS CENTER Maine in May!

  • Collect food directly for your local food pantries – partners are listed on our website under “Find Food.”

Giving Opportunities

  • Join Corporate Partners for a Hunger-Free Maine, a group of socially responsible corporations that support our mission through monetary gifts and/or food donations. A variety of recognition opportunities are available to celebrate your contributions!

  • Start a recurring monthly donation or make a one-time gift online, through the mail, or by calling 207-782-3554.

  • Include the Food Bank in your estate planning.

  • Match your employees’ donations or volunteer time through our company match program.

  • Donate a vehicle you no longer need by calling 855-500-RIDE.

Volunteer Opportunities

  • Corporations, school groups, community organizations and more are welcome to volunteer at the Food Bank’s two distribution centers (Auburn and Hampden locations).

  • Volunteers make an impact through variety of different projects based on the present need.

  • Volunteer at one of our more than 600 hunger-relief organization located throughout the state. Locate the closest one to you under “Find Food” on www.feedingmaine.org.

Leadership

 

Heather Paquette
President

Scott Maker
Board Chair
WoodWorthMaker LLC

 

Board officers

Kate Rush, Vice Chair, Androscoggin Bank

Peter Richardson, Treasurer

Mary Wright, Secretary

Board Members

John Bennett

Chris Bonacci, Ethos/VONT

Tae Chong, Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Christine Cummings, Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association

Michelle Draeger, Maine Justice Foundation

Peter Forester, Hannaford

Jason Fournier, BerryDunn

Whitney Gould-Cookson, Northern Light Health

Marwa Hassanien, Northern Light Health

Phil Licari

Dora Anne Mills, MD, MaineHealth

Susan Norton, First National Bank

Frank Pecoraro, Coastal Pacific Food Distributors

Odette Perriel, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Victoria W. Rogers, MD, Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital

Andrea Sockabasin, Wabanaki Public Health

At A Glance

 

Established: 1981

Employees: 113 FTE

Annual revenue: $80,543,387 ($22,136,152 in revenue and $58,407,235 in in-kind food donations)

Top funding sources

56% Private contributions

16% Program revenue

14% Government and other

14% Grants

Contact

Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine – JoAnn Pike Building (Auburn Distribution Center)

3121 Hotel Road, P.O. Box 1807

Auburn, ME 04211

(207) 782-3554

Good Shepherd Food Bank – Hannaford Center (Hampden Distribution Center)

11 Penobscot Meadow Drive

Hampden, ME 04444

(207) 782-3554

www.feedingmaine.org

Facebook: facebook.com/feedingmaine

Instagram: instagram.com/feedingmaine

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/feedingmaine

Awards/Accolades

Named one of Maine’s Best Places to Work in 2021, 2022, 2023; recognized as 2022 Community Partner of the Year by the Christine B. Foundation; recipient of Northern Light Health’s 2023 True North Community Partner Award for work addressing food insecurity; President Heather Paquette invited to State of the Union Address in 2023; and acknowledged with Community Impact Award from Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services in 2024.

Mission Statement

The mission of Good Shepherd Food Bank is to promote food security in Maine by improving access to nutritious and culturally relevant food for people experiencing hunger, building strong community partnerships, and mobilizing the public to address the root causes of hunger.

Service locations

We serve the entire state of Maine, from Kittery to Madawaska.