The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a non-profit organization that serves more than 500,000 people each year through a network of nearly 600 member hunger-relief agencies throughout eastern Massachusetts.
The Greater Boston Food Bank provides hunger relief to an estimated 500,000 people annually, according to "Hunger in Eastern Massachusetts 2014", a study that was part of a national initiative spearheaded by Feeding America.
[2] According to this study, about a third (125,000) of the members of the households served by GBFB had children under the age of 18, and approximately 20% of clients at program sites served by The Greater Food Bank were age 65 and older.
[2] The Boston Food Bank was founded by Kip Tiernan and legally incorporated in 1981.
The Greater Boston Food Bank broke ground in 2007 at the 2.8-acre (11,000 m2) site of a new facility at 70 South Bay Ave (the former home of the South Bay Incinerator), across the street from the organization's previous location.