Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization to provide free, immediate food assistance to those in need in northeast Indiana. In the wake of major factory shut-downs, a group of religious, business, and government leaders, along with concerned individuals, adopted the food banking model from the Second Harvest National Food Bank Network to establish a coordinated approach to area hunger relief. Community Harvest worked out of donated facilities until the first permanent distribution and program center was opened in April 1994.

Community Harvest's mission is to alleviate hunger through the full use of donated food and other resources, and to increase public awareness of and involvement in solutions to hunger. In pursuit of this mission, Community Harvest solicits surplus food and grocery donations from the food industry, and through community food drives, and transports the product to our warehouse at 999 East Tillman Road. The food is sorted, inspected for quality, and readied for distribution to the hungry via a member agency network of 460 plus churches and social service agencies. These agencies include such vital services as emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, rehabilitation centers, youth and older adult programs. Together, this network serves nearly 50,000 unduplicated people each month in Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells and Whitley counties.

Community Harvest is the largest hunger relief organization in northeast Indiana and the only charitable resource for donated food and groceries available to all nine counties. Community Harvest is the only certified area affiliate of the America's Second Harvest National Food Bank Network, and as such is the sole distributor of food bank allocations from national food donors, such as Kellogg's, Proctor & Gamble, and General Mills. Community Harvest has greater access than any other area human service organization to donated product offerings, and greater capacity to handle large-volume donations and coordinate their distribution to hundreds of neighborhood charities.