St Winifred Food Pantry is run by corps of over 100 dedicated volunteers from the community. This includes individuals from St Vincent de Paul Society, Ladies of Charity, Knights of Columbus members from our supporting parishes, and parishioners.
The Our Lady of Hope and St Michael the Archangel Food Pantries have joined with our pantry to help reach even more families in need. No food insecure person/family is turned away.
We predominantly serve families and individuals with incomes at or below 185% of the Federal Poverty Income Level.
A six-month comparison between 2022 and 2024 shows a 68% increase in food-insecure families and a 95% increase in individuals served—rising from 6,525 to 13,022 people.
More families are struggling with financial burdens:
At the same time, rising food costs affect our food pantry’s ability to stretch resources and meet these increasing community needs.
In 1982, St. Winifred parishioner Lois Yates came to learn that there were people in desperate need of food in the Mt Lebanon and Castle Shannon area. The then Pastor at St Winifred Parish, Father O’Shea, provided a location for a food pantry (the former convent).
The St. Vincent de Paul Conferences in the surrounding areas also realized the need to help food-insecure families in this and their parish areas and committed to support and to help fund the food pantry.
