Food Security Coalition
Food security means that all people in Southwestern Wisconsin have access, at all times,
to enough food for an active, healthy life.
High food security exists when a household has no problems with, or anxiety about, consistently accessing adequate food.
Marginal food security exists when a household has had problems or anxiety about accessing adequate food, but the quality, variety and quantity of their food was not substantially reduced.
Low food security is when a household reduces the variety, quality and desirability of their diet, but the quantity of food intake and normal eating patterns are not substantially disrupted.
Very low food security exists when, at times of the year, eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake reduced because the household lacked money or other resources for food.
The Southwestern Wisconsin Food Security Coalition is a group of individuals who work together to raise awareness about community food resources and to maximize existing efforts of food and nutrition services in the southwestern Wisconsin counties of Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette and Richland.
Mission. The mission of SWFSC is to work with food resources to increase the access to and availability of healthy, affordable, local foods.
Vision. All food resources in Southwestern Wisconsin promote healthy eating and provide affordable, local, healthy food. Consumers in Southwestern Wisconsin are “food literate” and choose affordable, healthy food.
TOOLBOX: Volunteer Recruitment
Ideas & Tips from Volunteer Recruitment Training
(March, 2018 sessions)
The Coalition plans to address a diverse array of issues including:
"In a world of plenty,
no one, not a single person
should go hungry."
2012 G20 Conference
Our first project involves supporting food pantries’ efforts to build a stronger volunteer base to sustain current and future efforts, including delivering food to those who cannot make it to the food pantries. We developed a toolbox to help pantries recruit volunteers.
Our hope is that the toolbox will provide each pantry with the resources needed to customize their volunteer recruitment efforts.
"Teach a man to fish, he eats for a day. Teach a
man to garden, and the whole neighborhood
gets tomatoes."
"Hunger is not an issue of charity.
It is an issue of justice."
"Greens feed our souls, refresh our minds,
and nourish our grateful bodies."
"If a free society can not help the many who are poor and food insecure, it can not save the few who are rich."
"It is important for people to realize that we can make progress against world hunger, that world hunger is not hopeless. The worst enemy is apathy."
| City | Contact phone | Contact email address | Contact name | Program |
| Boscobel | 608-485-3336 | pamkbrownlee@outlook.com | Pamela Brownlee | BMZ Church Food Pantry |
| Boscobel | 608-375-5088 | pryan2@centurylink.net | Pastor Ryan Spangler | Boscobel Assembly of God Food Pantry |
| Boscobel | (h) 608-537-2900 (c) 608-412-2900 | jjschauf@hotmail.com | Jerome Schauf | Boscobel Mobile Pantry |
| Boscobel | 608-375-5903 | k.boughton@swcap.org | Kim Boughton | SWCAP N Grant County Food Pantry |
| Cassville | 608-725-5528 | nilus@tds.net | Nilus | Cassville Emergency Food Pantry |
| Fennimore | 608-822-4060 | depotexchange@tds.net | Shelly Hartline | Fennimore Food Pantry |
| Fennimore | 608-822-2362 | hclendenen@swtc.edu | Holly Clendenen | Southwest Tech Food Pantry |
| Hazel Green | 608-854-2536 | gary_haas53811@yahoo.com | Gary Haas | Southwestern Food Pantry |
| Lancaster | 608-988-6216 or 608-723-7070 | bendorf1982@gmail.com | Linda Bendorf | Lancaster Food Pantry |
| Lancaster | 608-723-2691 | kalnins@chorus.net | Ivars & Sandy Kalnins | Low Income Food Exchange (LIFE) |
| Muscoda | 608-739-2744 or 608-739-4017 | dpatch0318@aol.com | Debbie Patch | Riverdale Area Food Pantry |
| Patch Grove | 608-994-2129 | rsghull@tds.net | Sandy Hull | Patch Grove Mobile Pantry |
| Platteville | 608-342-6033 | esquedaj@uwplatt.edu | Jaclyn Esqueda or Mike | Pioneer Provisions (UW Platteville Pantry) |
| Platteville | 608-778-8572 | Peace Lutheran Church | Platteville Food Pantry | |
| Platteville | 608-348-9735 | drefcinski65@gmail.com | Diane Drefcinski | Platteville Mobile Pantry |
| Platteville | 608-348-6574 | putnamd@uwplatt.edu | Deb Putman | Ruby's Pantry |
| City | Contact phone | Contact email address | Contact name | Program |
| Albany | 608-862-3206 | albanyumc@tds.com | Albany Food Pantry - United Methodist Ch. | |
| Argyle | 608-543-3451 | office@adamslutheranchurch.com | Nancy Dammen | Argyle Food Pantry |
| Brodhead | 608-897-6466 | Vicki | Brodhead Comm. White Gift Food Pantry | |
| Monroe | 608-329-7511 or 608-558-7562 | m.dietz@swwdb.org | Mary Deitz or Keith Ginner | Green County Food Pantry, Inc. |
| Monroe | 608-329-7837 | svdpmonroewi@gmail.com | Sue Schwartz | Monroe Mobile Pantry |
| Monticello | 608-938-4238 | kjblumer@tds.net | Jeannie Blumer | Green Cares Food Pantry |
| New Glarus | 608-527-5664 | gracechurch@charter.net | John Lewis | Grace Church Food Pantry |
| Belleville | 608-424-3341 | bwilson@villageofbelleville.com | Belleville Village Hall | Belleville Food Pantry |
| Blue Mounds | 608-437-6290 | sheseamstogether@yahoo.com | Karen Riek | Blue Mounds Food Pantry |
| City | Contact phone | Contact email address | Contact name | Program |
| Arena | 608-753-2169 | bdehlert@charter.net | Ray Porter | Arena Food Pantry |
| Barneveld | 608-924-8621 | epgreen@frontier.com | Elsa Greene | Barneveld Area Food Pantry |
| Blanchardville | 608-967-2349 | lumaye1@yahoo.com | Jean Christen - New Hope Lutheran | Blanchardville-Pecatonica Area Pantry |
| Dodgeville | Dodger Food Locker | Dodger Food Locker | ||
| Dodgeville | 608-930-8733 x2 | r.christensen@swcap.org | Ronda or Jenny | SWCAP Iowa County Food Pantry |
| Highland | 608-929-7701 or 608-341-8647 or 623-2095 | cggard64@gmail.com | Connie Gard | Highland Mobile Pantry |
| Livingston | 608-943-6606 | pastortyhines@gmail.com | Livingston United Methodist Church | Livingston: Iowa/Grant Food Pantry |
| Livingston | 608-943-6244 | gamarsh61@gmail.com | Livingston Free Methodist Church | Livingston-LCIC Emergency Food Pantry |
| Mineral Point | 608-987-2700 | First United Methodist Church | Mineral Point Food Pantry | |
| Mineral Point | Facebook - Mo Grimm | Mo May Grimm | Mineral Point-Pointer Pantry | |
| Rewey | 608-943-6640 | United Methodist Church | Rewey UMC Food Pantry | |
| Ridgeway | 608-574-1497 | N/A | Mary Beckett | Ridgeway Food Pantry |
| City | Contact phone | Contact email address | Contact name | Program |
| Belmont | 608-558-5445 | peaceluth@lagrant.net | Peace Lutheran Church | Belmont Food Pantry |
| Benton | 608-759-2001 | EmailBentonBible@gmail.com | Cathy | Benton Food Pantry |
| Darlington | 608-776-3566 | rdmffi@yousq.net | First Baptist Church | Darlington Food Pantry (Darlington Community of Churches) |
| Darlington | 608-776-4114 | ainnerst@townbank.us | Angela Innerst | Darlington Mobile Pantry |
| Darlington | 608-776-3500 | Lafayette County Food Pantry | ||
| Shullsburg | 608-965-3455 or 608-381-7473 | Tina.Cruse@wisconsin.gov | Tina | Shullsburg Food Pantry |
| South Wayne | 608-214-5317 | sonnydonna@gmail.com | Donna Larse | Blackhawk Area Food Pantry |
| City | Contact phone | Contact email address | Contact name | Program |
| Lone Rock | 608-583-2614 | krossing@rvschools.org | Kathy Rossing | Lone Rock Community Food Pantry |
| Richland Center | 608-647-4050 | bowerpost@countryspeed.com | Jerry Bower | Richland Center Mobile Pantry |
| Richland Center | 608-647-4050 | bowerpost@countryspeed.com | Jerry Bower | Richland Community Food Pantry |
| Viola | 608-627-1910 or 608-627-1621 | forkash@mwt.net | Diana Forkash | Viola Food Pantry |
| Spring Green | 608-588-2442 | maryknight99@gmail.com | Mary Knight | Community Food Pantry |
Dial 211 to learn more about local food pantries and other local resources available.
Marque 211 para obtener más información sobre las despensas de comida locales y otros recursos disponibles.
Ronda Christensen
SW Wisconsin Community Action Program
Special Service Coordinator
Saint Theresa of Calcutta
“I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southwestern Wisconsin Food Security Coalition
149 N. Iowa Street, Dodgeville, WI 53533
608-935-2326 Ext 602
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The mission of SWFSC is to work with food resources to increase the access to and availability of healthy, affordable, local foods.
All food resources in Southwestern Wisconsin promote healthy eating and provide affordable, local, healthy food. Consumers in Southwestern Wisconsin are “food literate” and choose affordable, healthy food.
Volunteer Recruitment