Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry

Executive Director Debra Treesh has been building extensive nonprofit experience since 2005. She previously worked for a national nonprofit and the chapter that she ran became the fastest growing chapter in the United States. Debra and a number of volunteers started Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry in 2011 and she is using her knowledge to grow this organization. She served on the Community Harvest Food Bank Board of Directors as Secretary from 2010 to 2017.

Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry is making a positive impact on the quality of life for all Hoosiers by providing nutritious meat to hunger relief agencies within Indiana...
...one pound at a time

• Over 5.2 million meals served to date. Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry was established with a purpose of reducing hunger issues within Indiana and a mission to improve the quality of life of Hoosiers by providing nutritious meat to hunger relief agencies within Indiana…One Pound at a Time…
• Partners with 87 participating meat processors statewide, serving 85 Indiana counties.
• The philanthropic outreach from this program includes all of the volunteers, meat processing shops, hunters and farmers, and community agencies and organizations – that donate their time, skills, and money to help provide this nutritious meat to food banks and hunger relief agencies in their communities.
• We partner also with Feeding America food banks (who aid us in tracking and distribution), along with Feeding Indiana’s Hungry (FIsH), and many other pantries and hunger ministries.  There are many generous donors/partners, including the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), Walmart, United Way, community foundations, REMCs, and many other local and state agencies and organizations that help us serve Indiana.