Midwest Food Bank partners with Amazon to deliver food across the country

Posted on May 31, 2024
Amazon has been a partner of Midwest Food Bank since 2022. (Photo courtesy: Midwest Food Bank/Facebook)

By Blake Haas

NORMAL – As part of a pilot program, one of the world’s largest shipping companies provides its infrastructure to the Midwest Food Bank.

Through the Amazon Local Good program, Amazon provides last-mile delivery to support the food bank, providing food to those in need.

“It started out with Amazon reaching out to Midwest Food Bank and really appreciating our model,” Patrick Burke, Executive Director of the food bank in Normal, told WJBC. “You know, fighting off hunger across Illinois, the whole country and actually international as well.

And I think combining the strengths of Amazon with Midwest Food Bank has been very powerful. And being to do that across really all of Illinois.”

The collaboration began in 2022 and has developed into a multi-faceted effort to address food insecurity.

Midwest Food Bank distributed $482 million worth of food in the past year.

Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected].

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