Our Daily Bread
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Mission Statement
Our Daily Bread is Cincinnati's largest soup kitchen, providing 400-500 meals each weekday. In addition, we also provide Emergency Assistance and an after-school program for children.
About This Cause
Our Daily Bread’s vision is that every person in the Greater Cincinnati community has sufficient access to food, essential social services and a place to feel safe. We began 32 years ago with the primary goal of providing a warm meal in a welcoming environment to the homeless and poor. Today, Our Daily Bread is much more than a soup kitchen. We are a hospitality ministry that provides food, vital social services and stability to people in crisis. Our commitment to community, friendship and food has not wavered over the years. We now serve 400-500 nutritious mid-day meals Monday – Friday. More than food, we are a safe space to gather with friends in a low-barrier environment, helping to combat the loneliness that so many of our guests face due to their extreme poverty. 100% of our food is donated (sparing thousands of pounds of usable food from the landfill each year) and each food service shift requires 25-35 volunteers, allowing volunteers from all walks of life an opportunity to truly connect with their neighbors. In addition to serving food, Our Daily Bread also offers Kids Club, and after-school program open to neighborhood children 3 days a week. Kids Club provides a caring, stable environment for our kids to play, learn, receive help with homework, and get a healthy snack. In addition, the Our Family Table program provides a bag of groceries each Thursday to help Kids Club participants augment their family’s food supply over the weekend when they are not able to rely on free school lunches. Finally, Our Daily Bread helps people in crisis through our Emergency Assistance Program. Our social workers helps guests work toward a more secure existence by helping them navigate the social service system for emergency material assistance, including shelter, food, clothing, job readiness training and working through the court system. They also facilitate birth certificate acquisition and rent and utility assistance. At Our Daily Bread, we strive to serve not only food, but also hope, to all of our neighbors. We are sometimes referred to as “Over-the-Rhine’s living room” and this is an identity we are proud to maintain. Our goal is simply to be the best hosts we can be to the people who need us, striving to honor the dignity, humanity and light in each of our guests.