Helping Neighbors Get Food and Helping Neighbors Share Food
Everyone deserves enough food to eat.
Sometimes people need emergency groceries. Sometimes they need help getting to a store, applying for food benefits, preparing meals, or stretching their food budget.
Other neighbors may have extra food, garden produce, time, transportation, or skills they would be happy to share.
The Kendall-Whittier Residents Association wants to make it easier to find food assistance, share available resources, and work together to help prevent hunger in our neighborhood.
Kendall-Whittier Emergency Food Pantry
Kendall Whittier, Inc. operates a neighborhood food pantry that provides free groceries to eligible households.
Food assistance: 918-592-3000
Leave a message with your name, telephone number, and address.
The pantry provides approximately one week's worth of groceries for each household member, once a month.
Service area: Between Pine Street and 11th Street, and between Lansing Avenue and Harvard Avenue. This service area is larger than the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood itself.
Food assistance is available through delivery within the service area.
Visit Kendall Whittier, Inc.
Find Other Food Pantries and Free Meals
Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma
Find food pantries and feeding programs throughout eastern Oklahoma.
Find Food Near You
211 Eastern Oklahoma
Dial 211 for help finding food, housing, utility assistance, and other community services.
You can also text your ZIP code to 877-836-2111.
Visit 211 Eastern Oklahoma
Iron Gate
Provides free daily meals and a grocery pantry in downtown Tulsa. Grocery pantry registration is required.
Visit Iron Gate
Tulsa City-County Library Food Resources
The library maintains a list of food assistance programs in Tulsa and surrounding communities.
View Food Resources
Programs may change their hours, requirements, and available services. Check with the organization before visiting.
Grocery Benefits and Nutrition Programs
SNAP (Food Benefits)
SNAP helps eligible households pay for groceries.
Oklahoma SNAP Information and Applications
WIC
WIC provides food and nutrition support for eligible pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and young children.
Oklahoma WIC Program
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Food assistance does not always have to come through a formal program.
Neighbors can help one another by:
Sharing surplus garden produce and other food.
Helping someone pick up or receive groceries.
Offering transportation to a grocery store or pantry.
Helping a neighbor apply for available food assistance.
Preparing meals for someone who is sick or unable to cook.
Sharing information about free meals and food distributions.
Volunteering with neighborhood food programs.
Even small acts of cooperation can make a difference.
We would like to explore neighborhood projects that help connect available food and resources with people who need them.
Possible projects include:
Food Sharing: Helping neighbors share extra groceries, garden produce, and other usable food.
Community Gardens: Supporting existing gardens and exploring opportunities to grow and share food.
Food Recovery: Working with willing businesses, restaurants, and organizations to redirect safe, usable surplus food instead of wasting it.
Grocery Assistance: Connecting residents who need help shopping or picking up groceries with neighbors who can assist.
Community Meals: Bringing people together to prepare, share, and enjoy meals.
School Break Food Support: Helping families find meal programs and other resources when school is not in session.
These are opportunities to explore, not services that the Residents Association currently promises to provide.
Help Us Connect Food Needs and Resources
Do you know about a food program we should include?
Do you grow extra vegetables? Have time to help with grocery deliveries? Know a business interested in sharing surplus food?
Or do you see an unmet food need in Kendall-Whittier?
We want to hear from you.
Email: kdubtulsa@gmail.com
Please do not send or publicly post another person's private circumstances without their permission.
Our goal is simple: make better use of what our neighborhood already has, support organizations doing this work, and help neighbors take care of one another.