Feeding People. Changing Lives.
Channel One Regional Food Bank, a member of Feeding America, is the largest hunger relief organization in Southeast Minnesota. Channel One provides food assistance to low-income individuals and families through the Channel One Food Shelf Program. Additionally, Channel One rescues surplus donated food product from the food industry and distributes the food to area food shelves, meal programs, group homes, and shelters throughout a 14-county service area in Southeast Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.
Online Donations
Making a monthly donation gives Channel One a steady source of continuing support and balances your annual giving throughout the year. It’s easy and efficient.
Feeding People
Together we can feed people and change lives! Did you know that Channel One can turn a mere $1 into enough food for at least four meals for our hungry neighbors?
Food Donations
Channel One Regional Food Bank relies both on our corporate and individual food donors to help us feed people and change lives!
Latest News & Events from Channel One
Hy-Vee & Sol Group Donate Nearly 2,000 Watermelons to Channel One Regional Food Bank
On Monday, April 20, Hy-Vee partnered with their melon supplier Sol Group to donate nearly 2,000 jumbo watermelons to Channel One Regional Food Bank in Rochester, Minnesota. The donation will be distributed throughout the [...]
COVID-19 Updates
Food box distribution on May 15th May 11, 2020 Channel One is teaming up with the City of Rochester, Family Service Rochester, and Cradle 2 Career to reach families in need. On [...]
Heroic Donors Come to lift Channel One out of Flooding
Heroic Donors Come to lift Channel One out of Flooding Rochester, Minnesota – July 29, 2019 Channel One employees and volunteers came to work to find their fleet of trucks and cars were submerged [...]