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As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, all donations to Manna are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

We accept both designated and undesignated donations. Manna is also able to accept gifts of stocks or other appreciable assets. Often a donor can realize significant tax savings by making such a donation. We encourage donors to consider us in their estate planning. Consult with your financial advisor for more information.

Manna’s mission is to offer emergency food assistance, service the food-related needs of vulnerable populations, and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger. Your support is critical to our mission!

With demand at an all-time high, Manna must purchase more food than ever to meet the needs of the families we serve. Your donations are used to purchase the foods that traditional food drives don’t bring in, like fresh produce, shelf-stable milk, peanut butter and canned fruit.

Become an in-kind sponsor

Manna seeks donations of products and services to keep our costs down and direct our limited financial resources toward feeding the hungry. In addition to food donations, we also seek the following in-kind support: postage, printing services, office supplies, copy paper, advertising services, and much more. Gift cards are a great option too!

If you have an item or service you would like to donate, please contact us at 850-432-2053. 

Manna Night at the Fair

The 2024 Manna night at the Pensacola Interstate Fair was a success! Stay tuned for the 2025 date!

 

All Krewe Food Drive Challenge

We invite you and your krewe of choice to participate in the 2026 Krewe of Sparta Annual Humanitarian Award Food Drive Challenge!

 

The 2026 Krewe of Sparta Annual Humanitarian Award Challenge is underway! Start gathering nonperishable food items NOW and deliver to Manna any time between now and the weigh-in party 12:30-3:30pm on Sunday, February 8, 2026!

Every pound of food = 1 point!

Bring double point items to help your favorite krewe win! Double point items must be pre-sorted.

DOUBLE POINT ITEMS:

  • Canned Fruit in 100% Juice (20 oz. or less) (or in water; NO syrups)
  • Canned Vegetables (16 oz. or less) (mixed vegetables preferred but not required)
  • Oatmeal (boxes of individual packets) (low sugar and protein varieties preferred but not required)
  • 100% Fruit Juice Boxes/Pouches (6-6.74 fl. oz.) (must be 100% juice)

 

* Max two cases of water per krewe.

* NO: flour, sugar, bulk dry goods (e.g. 50lb. bags of rice), large cans (e.g. #10 cans), damaged/expired food (determined at Manna's discretion)

* Cash gifts - $1,000 max for competition points (however, all cash contributions are welcome!). Points for cash are calculated based on USDA's value of a pound of donated product.

* Small (1-25 members), Large (26-50 members), and Mega (more than 50 members) Krewe division winners will be announced at the Pensacola Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Priscus celebration on Mardi Gras night!

* One Krewe rep can be present at scales during weigh-in.

Collect food for Manna and help make a BIG difference in our community! 

 

Not in a Krewe? That’s ok! You can donate too!

Simply bring your donation to Manna anytime between now and the Weigh-In Party February 8, 2026. Let us know which Krewe is your favorite, and we’ll credit your donation to their total.

Pack the Pirate Ship

Pack the Pirate Ship 2024 was a success! Stay tuned for more info! 

#donutstrike4manna

DonutStrike

The 2025 Donut Strike 4 Manna food drive is June 25-27!

Local law enforcement and fire departments are running to the rescue and teaming up again to fight hunger for the 2025 Donut Strike for Manna – presented by Hanto + Clarke General Contractors and PenAir Credit Union. These brave men and women are going on strike against the disc-shaped delicacies from Wednesday, June 25 through Friday, June 27 to encourage the community to fight local hunger by supporting Manna. They won’t give in until truckloads of nutritious food has been donated to the cause.

Participating agencies include the Escambia County Fire Rescue, Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Gulf Breeze Fire and Rescue, Gulf Breeze Police Department, Midway Fire District, Pace Fire Rescue District, Pensacola Fire Department, Pensacola Police Department, and Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office!

Each day of the Donut Strike, first responders will be stationed at grocery stores across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties from 3 to 6 p.m. to collect food and monetary donations. See participating grocer locations below! Food donations and financial gifts may also be dropped off at Manna, any day during the week of the Strike, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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PensaCan: Demolish Hunger, Design Hope!

PensaCan 2025 is back this October!

Join us as members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) of Northwest Florida partner with Manna for PensaCan 2025! The event is hosted by Cordova Mall - A Simon Mall.

PensaCan is a competition where architectural firms and community amateurs create impressive structures made entirely out of full cans of food. Following a week-long display of the structures (and posters with images of digital designs) and voting, all food is then donated to Manna for distribution to our hungry neighbors in need in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Food structures are built at Cordova Mall in the common area between Dillard’s and Ross on Thursday, October 2, and are on display through Friday, October 10. 

Structures can also be built at other locations, such as in an office, and submitted as a digital entry. Digital build entries must be completed and submitted by September 4, 2025. Posters with images of digital designs will be displayed in Cordova Mall during the week of voting.

Vote for your favorite structure October 3 - 10! Come back to this page to place votes for the People's Choice Award - each vote is a $5 donation to Manna, providing 3 healthy meals to a neighbor in need with every vote! 

After the structures are built, a panel of judges will vote on the structures in categories such as Best Nutrition Award, Best Graphics Award, Structural Ingenuity Award, and more. Winners of each award will be announced during the PensaCan Awards Ceremony.

CLICK HERE for more information and to register your PensaCan build team today!

Insterested in sponsoring? Take a look at the PensaCan SPONSOR INFO PACKET.

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Our Mission

Our Mission: To offer emergency food assistance, service the food-related needs of vulnerable populations, and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger.

 

Board of Directors 

  • President: Kathy Dunagan
    WEAR 3
  • Vice President: Troupe Brewer
    Clark Partington
  • Secretary: Robin Zimmern
    University of West Florida
  • Treasurer: Beth Skarda
    Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund
  • Past President: Ginny Cranor
    Pensacola Fire Department
  • At Large: Stephen Davis
    Davis Group Security Consultants
  • At Large: James Hosman
    Prospecta Growth Partners
  • Kimberley Anderson
    Sunbelt Title Agency
  • Tab Bright
    Michles & Booth
  • Deborah Brousseau
    LandrumHR
  • Sarah Davis
    Jewelers Trade Shop
  • Whitney Fike
    International Paper
  • David Hawkins
    David R. Hawkins LLC
  • Andrew Hobbs
    Escambia County Sherriff's Office
  • Doug Jolly
    Red Iron Design House
  • Brent Lane
    Cat Country 98.7
  • McKenzie Lane
    Saltmarsh, Cleveland & Gund
  • Jason Lombardo
    Premier Coast Advisors
  • Dr. Mary Mehta
    Nemours Children's Health

Manna Staff

 

 

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Fill the Mayflower

 

 

Fill the Mayflower 2025 is slated for November!

 

Clover Pick A Bowl Fill A Bowl

The Clover Pick A Bowl Fill A Bowl will be back March 2026!

NALC “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive

The 2025 National Association of Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger food drive is May 10!

 

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is the largest one-day food drive in the country. Food collected in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties stays here, helping to feed those who are struggling with food insecurity in our community.


Residents can easily participate by leaving non-perishable food donations at their mailboxes on Saturday, May 10, for their letter carriers to collect. Don’t have a traditional mailbox? That’s OK! Leave your bag of donations close to where you get your mail OR drop off your non-perishable food donations to a USPS post office near you on or leading up to Saturday, May 10! Every donation helps to ensure that families in need have access to nutritious food.

Manna's Most Needed Items Are:

  • Chicken and Tuna (cans and pouches, 12.5 oz. or less)
  • Oatmeal (single serve packs) and Whole Grain Cereal
  • Canned Tomatoes (16 oz. or less)
  • Canned Vegetables (16 oz. or less)
  • Peanut Butter (jars 28 oz. or less)
  • Canned Fruit in 100% Juice (20 oz. or less)

Please, NO glass jars, opened food items, or homemade items.

 

Thanks to the incredible support of this community, more than 76,000 pounds of food were collected and donated to Manna during the 2024 National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive! This donation provided more than 88,000 healthy meals for hungry neighbors in need right here in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties!

 

Special thanks to all the letter carriers from the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association that collected food to help neighbors in need!

 

If your bag of food donations is not picked up, please bring it to Manna at 3030 North E Street, Pensacola, FL 32501.

Souper Bowl of Caring

Souper Bowl of Caring will be back February 2026!

 

Resources

2-1-1 Northwest Florida: United Way’s 24/7 Information and Referral Hotline to help clients find other resources that can assist them with a variety of needs:  https://escambia.communityos.org/cms/

Together we can work to solve hunger
in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

 

Manna Programs and Services

To affect lasting change in our community, we must provide our neighbors with nutritious food and address their hunger-related needs. We do this through our Emergency Food Assistance Program at our pantry and our 16 specialty programs with 23 community partners. Our programs/partnerships allow us to go outside our four walls and into the community to partner with other organizations and agencies to reach some of the most vulnerable people in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. All food bags and boxes are provided at no charge to clients or partners and are packed to USDA Standards for a Healthy Diet, with the exception of the School Resource Officer Food Program which utilizes grab-n-go, ready-to-eat food items.

Emergency Food Assistance Program
Food assistance at Manna's pantry is provided by appointment only. To learn more about appointment availability, please call 850-432-2053. 
Tummy Bundles
Tummy Bundles is a collaboration with Boys & Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast that, since 2016, has provided seven healthy weekend meals to students participating in their after-school programs. The program expanded in 2021 from a single school-site distribution to now include the Boys & Girls Pensacola Club in Englewood, making nutritious food available to dozens of Escambia County children in need every week of the schoolyear. Tummy Bundles is designed to alleviate the excess burden of hunger for children participating in the program and allow them to focus on improving academic and health outcomes. For families in need of additional support, Manna provides the entire family unit with bags of healthy food. The Tummy Bundles program is generously supported by The Bear Family Foundation. 
Healthy Seniors Food Program at Westminster Village
The Healthy Seniors Food Program at Westminster Village provides a 10-day supply of healthy food each month to more than 120 senior citizens residing in a low-income rental retirement community who must often choose between buying food or medication. The program improves their access to healthy food and in turn improves the nutritional quality of their diet. In our most recent food security survey conducted with seniors in the program, 97% told us the nutritional quality of their diet had improved!
Monthly Senior Food Program
Manna provides additional monthly support to vulnerable seniors through the Monthly Senior Food Program at Main Pantry. The program supports approximately 65 low-income senior citizens with 10 days’ worth of nutritious food each month. Like the Healthy Seniors Food Program, the program improves their access to healthy food and the nutritional quality of their diet. If a senior in the program is a grandparent raising grandchildren, Manna will provide food to the entire household.
School Resource Officer Food Program

Manna partners with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, the Gulf Breeze Police Department, the Pensacola Police Department, and the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office to carry out the School Resource Officer Food Program. The program provides School Resource Officers (SRO) with food in more than 30 schools across the two-county area for students who’ve identified themselves as being in need. SROs utilize the food as a tool: first, to fulfill an immediate need – food; then to have deeper conversations with students about life at home, academic performance, behavior, and more. In addition, SROs have identified whole family units struggling with food insecurity during home visits. We supply each family member with a 5-day supply of healthy groceries, and just as important, the relationship between law enforcement and the family is strengthened.

Backpack4Teens
Backpacks4Teens is a collaboration with the Santa Rosa County School District that enables trained school personnel to connect homeless and Unaccompanied Youth, as well as Emergent Needs students, (primarily 6 - 12-year olds) with Manna’s resources. Food is a critical stabilizing factor for these students, and it reduces the likelihood that they will engage in risky or illegal behavior to obtain food. Through this partnership, Manna has also provided food bags to the school district for families who are found to be in need of additional support.
Cantonment Improvement Committee
Manna provides food bags of healthy groceries containing more than 3,375 meals each month to Cantonment Improvement Committee to support their food distributions at Carver Park in North Escambia County.
Food as Medicine
In partnership with the American Heart Association, Manna supports a Food as Medicine program that benefits the patients of four local healthcare providers: Health and Hope Clinic, Community Health Northwest Florida, Ascension Sacred Heart, and Baptist Hospital Heart Failure Clinic. The program also supports some senior citizens who reside at Wesley Scott Place. The program is designed to support individuals who may benefit from incorporating fresh produce in their diet to both address food insecurity and improve their health outcomes (blood pressure, A1C, body weight, etc.). Our friends at The Farm supply fresh produce boxes twice each month, and Manna supplements the boxes with bags of nonperishable groceries for each patient and members of their household.
Gulf Coast Kid's House and Santa Rosa Kids' House
Our partnerships with Gulf Coast Kid’s House and Santa Rosa Kid’s House provide emergency food bags at their facilities to distribute to the families and children they serve. Prior to the collaboration, advocates would have to refer families to other resources for emergency food. This presented a problem, especially when children were placed on the weekend or in the middle of the night, resulting in a lapse of time when the children and their guardians could access emergency food assistance. The partnership now provides families in need with immediate access to healthy food.
Ministry Village at Olive

Manna provides healthy food bags to clients enrolled in Ministry Village at Olive’s Tender Hearts Caring Hands financial stability class. Furnishing groceries alleviates additional financial burden as well as provides a meaningful opportunity to put the class experience into practical application by offering an instant reduction in expenses. Families may utilize that money for savings, debt reduction, or making other needed purchases.

Child Nutrition Program
In partnership with Backpack Project USA (an Escambia County nonprofit) and the American Heart Association, Manna supports a Child Nutrition Program that benefits approximately 550 Escambia County students every week who are found to be in need of food assistance by their teachers or other school personnel. Prior to implementation of the program, students typically received 7-8 items in a bag that consisted of things like ramen noodles, beanie weenies, chips, and pop tarts. Now, students enrolled in the program receive a bag of nutritious food every week of the school year that includes a healthy, balanced menu of 13-14 food items including protein, vegetables, fruit, grains, and dairy.
Pensacola State College
In partnership with Pensacola State College, Manna provides the Pirates CARE Team – a group of faculty and staff that assists students who are experiencing crisis or difficulty outside the classroom – with healthy food bags for currently enrolled students and their families at all three campus locations. The food is supplemented with nutritional information and linkage to additional community resources.
Covenant Care
Manna provides the social workers of Covenant Care with food bags to support the individuals, families, and caregivers they serve in Northwest Florida. Food bags packed to USDA Standards for a Healthy Diet are supplied to Covenant as needed and kept on-hand for quick, easy access and distribution.
Volunteers of America – Pensacola Veterans Village
Manna regularly provides healthy food bags to veterans residing at Volunteers of America’s Pensacola Veterans Village to alleviate their expenses and improve the nutritional quality of their diets during their time in transitional housing, preparing them for a life of independence.
Children’s Home Society
Manna provides Children’s Home Society social workers and resource navigators with healthy food bags each week to support the children and families they serve. When they find that a child and his/her family is struggling with food insecurity, social workers and resource navigators facilitate the delivery of food bags to children and their families. Each family member is supplied with a 5-day food bag in an effort to stabilize the family unit.
ReEntry Alliance Pensacola (REAP)
Manna provides ReEntry Alliance Pensacola (REAP) and the justice-involved citizens they serve with healthy food bags monthly to support them on their pathway to success – self-sufficient, crime-free, and productive.
AmeriCorps VISTA
Through Habitat for Humanity of Pensacola's AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) program, Manna provides a 10-day supply of nutritious food monthly to VISTAs participating in the program to help offset their cost-of-living expenses.

Host A Food Drive

Hosting a food drive is a great way to support Manna! Whether it is organized at your workplace, your place of worship, your civic club, your school, or within your neighborhood/HOA, food drives can be a fun way to team-build, earn service hours, and give back! 

To get started, please fill out the form below. We’ll be in touch soon to help you plan a successful food drive.

Volunteers make it happen!

Individuals

If you’re interested in volunteer opportunities for individuals, please fill out the form below to let us know! Our Volunteer Manager will be in touch soon to discuss current openings. 

Groups

For group volunteer opportunities, please contact Volunteer Manager Cheri Eichen at 850-432-2053 or cheri@mannahelps.org. 

Minors (under 18 years)

Children must be at least 12 years old to volunteer at/with Manna, and they must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18 for the duration of their scheduled volunteer time. 

Over 23,000 square feet of hope under one roof.

Our new home at 3030 North E Street puts Manna under the same roof for the first time in decades. More importantly, this space will increase our operational efficiency and capacity. This will enable us to expand services and address the growing hunger issues our neighbors face.

The 2014 flood destroyed all our food and equipment.

Before that, Manna operated in two separate buildings – a non-air conditioned warehouse space and a separate building that housed services, food, and freezer space. Now we use two construction trailers and small portions of our two original buildings. Combined we have roughly 50% of our former space.

Between the significantly reduced working area and less than ideal food handling capabilities, it didn’t take long to see that these conditions couldn’t sustain our operations.

Corporate Support

Thousands of people need our help each year. By partnering with Manna, your business and employees will join a longstanding effective organization that’s been fighting hunger in our community for more than 34 years. We offer several opportunities to be involved!   

Cause Marketing

Cause marketing partnerships with Manna will help your business reach customers and promote their brand while supporting the fight against hunger. Let us work with you to develop joint messaging, community events and grassroots fundraising that are essential to reducing hunger in the community. Our corporate partnership program offers a comprehensive package of engagement opportunities that will showcase your brand to Manna supporters as well as the general public.

In-Kind Donations

Manna is in need of in-kind donated services or products to help keep our costs down. In-kind donations from corporate partners are an efficient and easy way to help, and may be tax-deductible. Will you consider donating advertising placements, event space, professional and creative services or office supplies? If so, please fill out the form here and tell us what you have to offer. 

Team-build through Volunteering 

Manna specializes in hands-on group volunteering, offering businesses a way to demonstrate corporate social responsibility in a fun way.  We’ll work with you to create employee volunteer opportunities that fit your philanthropic needs. Companies may volunteer bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually.

Let's offer our neighbors in need
        the healthiest foods possible.

We are committed to providing the healthiest food possible to our hungry neighbors in need in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties  – that’s why we pack all of our bags based on USDA Standards for a Healthy Diet. Please help us provide nutritionally balanced food by donating items from the list below.

Our current most needed items:

Canned Tomatoes (20 oz. or less)

Canned Mixed Vegetables (20 oz. or less)

Peanut Butter (2 lb. jars or less and to-go cups)

Chicken or Tuna (cans 12.5 oz. or less, or pouches)

Fruit Cups (in 100% juice, peel-off tops)

Canned Fruit in 100% Juice (20 oz. or less)

Oatmeal (boxes of single serve packets)

100% Fruit Juice Boxes or Bottles (8 oz. or less)

Microwaveable Meals (e.g. Hormel Compleats)

We also accept and appreciate all non-perishable food donations. To ensure food safety, we cannot take any rusty or unlabeled cans, perishable items, homemade items, noncommercial canned or packaged goods, alcoholic beverages, or items that have been used or opened.

Donations are accepted Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 3030 North E Street, Pensacola, FL 32501. If you don’t need a receipt for your donation, you can simply leave the items in the barrel next to the donation door (located at the top of Hayes Street).

Want a contact-free method of donating? You can also shop our Amazon and Walmart Wishlists! To view our Amazon wish list, visit https://amzn.to/2CiO89A. To view our Walmart wish list, visit https://bit.ly/walmart4manna. Items can be sent to Manna, 3030 North E Street, Pensacola, FL 32501. 

Thank you for your support in ensuring our neighbors in need have access to healthy food!

 

Questions? Please call (850) 432-2053 or email fooddrives@mannahelps.org.

Do you need food?

Food assistance at Manna is provided by appointment only. To learn more about appointment availability, please call 850-432-2053. 

Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
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Manna is a local grassroots organization fighting hunger in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. We provide groceries directly to individuals and families in need.  •  Our services are all offered free of charge. We receive no government funding and have no national affiliation. Most of our funding comes from individuals, foundations, faith-based organizations, corporations, and businesses. Manna is nonsectarian, community focused and volunteer supported.  •  We believe every person has a right to live free of hunger and to be treated with respect and dignity.

Manna helped 67,427 in 2024. But we still need your help.
   Donate Now

Manna is a local grassroots organization fighting hunger in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. We provide groceries directly to individuals and families in need.  •  Our services are all offered free of charge. We receive no government funding and have no national affiliation. Most of our funding comes from individuals, foundations, faith-based organizations, corporations, and businesses. Manna is nonsectarian, community focused and volunteer supported.  •  We believe every person has a right to live free of hunger and to be treated with respect and dignity.

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