Neighborhood Pantries The People's Roundtable

​Here’s something you can actually do: build a neighborhood pantry. Not someday when you have more time or resources or know-how. This weekend. With materials you can get for under a hundred dollars and a handful of neighbors who’ll help you keep it running.

​This matters more than usual right now. Federal food assistance programs face cuts. SNAP benefits are under threat. School lunch programs that kept kids fed are scaling back. The institutional safety net that was already threadbare is fraying faster. Which means the gap between need and support is widening, and that gap exists on your street whether you’ve built infrastructure to address it or not.