This facility serves as a new beginning for the Arkansas Foodbank and for their overall mission of providing food to over 400 food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, and school-feeding programs across the state. The construction of this facility was made possible through a $14 million capital campaign that included a $10.3 million Challenge Grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation in the fall of 2008. This project, located on a new donated 12-acre site, replaces a dilapidated facility in southwest Little Rock. This facility allows the Foodbank to store and distribute over 25 million pounds of food every year, doubling its previous capacity. To contribute to the Foodbank's community mission, we designed a multi-purpose community room for volunteer events and training.

An added mission of the Foodbank is to bring the community and volunteers into the facility to teach them about hunger across the state. Since completing the new building, the number of volunteers has not only increased exponentially but the Foodbank's food output has also grown every year!