 
The Foodbank of the Virginia Peninsula's Food Distribution Program serves as a regional clearinghouse for donated and purchased food as well as related items. In turn, these items are distributed to qualified nonprofit organizations providing food to the less fortunate on the Peninsula.
The Foodbank acquires surpluses and potentially recoverable discards gathered from local retailers, wholesalers, distributors, food industry manufacturers, brokers, grocery stores, gleaning projects and individual donors from throughout our service area on the Virginia Peninsula.
Further, food made available for the Peninsula’s needy residents is also received from national donors through the America’s Second Harvest National Network of Food Banks. Also, first quality food items are obtained from the USDA through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), collected in food drives supported by numerous organizations and individuals, as well as purchased with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and other private grant funding.
The Foodbank then distributes these goods to emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other nonprofit agencies which assist Peninsula residents who fall into need each day.
In 2006 – 2007, the Foodbank provided food to 245 nonprofit member agencies comprising 544 programs supplying food security to the needy on the Peninsula.
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