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The county's food system is younger than its poor farm by a century and a half — and one of its foundings prints two years, both kept. Hope Ministries, the South Bend rescue mission — founded 1954 at aggregator-profile strength, its present operation confirmed on its own site (432 S. Lafayette Boulevard). The Food Bank of Northern Indiana prints its course from its own 2013 annual report: in May 1993 a hunger-education task force took up re-establishing food banking; the North Central Indiana Food Bank was organised in July 1993 as a distribution organisation of Gleaners of Indianapolis; the first distribution came in December 1993 — 6,800 pounds to 29 agencies; certification followed in February 1996; the bank bought its 82,000-square-foot plant at 702 S. Chapin Street in July 2000 and took its present name in 2006; it serves six counties. Cultivate Food Rescue — founded by Jim Conklin, Notre Dame its first partner, more than 15 million pounds rescued in ten years — carries two founding years in its carriers, 2016 and an official opening in 2017, printed as carried. The township limb stands banked and is cited: Lakeville's two church food pantries (Lakeville United Methodist and County Line Brethren, per the county food-pantry guide updated 29 October 2025) are this system's last mile on this ground. Residue: the Center for the Homeless's founding was not verified (settler: the centre's own record).
Principal sources: the Food Bank of Northern Indiana's 2013 annual report; Cultivate Food Rescue's record at its carriers; Hope Ministries (hopesb.org) and its profile carriers; the banked this history lk-civ-charities (the pantries).