Our mission is to share the abundance of resources within our communities with dignity and joy.
Our goal is to make Yavapai County the first food-secure county in America.
Support our collaborative efforts by making a tax-deductible and highly impactful donation today.
Manzanita Outreach is a 501(c)(3), Arizona Non-Profit organization and part of the Arizona Tax Credit Program.
Bringing Communities Together
There is plenty of food but getting it to the people who need it most takes a community effort.
Manzanita Outreach is the largest food assistance provider in the county. With the rising costs of food, our neighbors increasingly rely on us for their basic needs. Please help us ensure we can be there for our community through good times and bad.
Why We Exist
All of our neighbors, regardless of their personal circumstances, should have access to enough healthy food to eat.
Most Yavapai County residents have the benefit of shopping at a supermarket in their community at virtually any time on any day their family needs food. Unfortunately, that is often not the case for those needing food assistance.
How We Work
At our centralized warehouse, we receive semi-truckloads of healthy food. The food is sorted and packaged into family food boxes and then loaded onto our refrigerated trucks.
The family food boxes are then delivered and shared on underserved days and times in the underserved communities, neighborhoods and homes of our neighbors.
What We Do
Manzanita Outreach fills the gaps within the Yavapai County food-assistance supply chain, sharing food with kindness and dignity.
MOhelp.org is a community service program that helps neighbors discover where and when food is shared in their community.
We envision communities where the basic life needs of all people are met.
Gaps In Service
Confusion as to where, when or if food assistance is available in a community
Limited days and times when food assistance is available, making access difficult for working families
Some residents lack access to a vehicle or are physically unable to get to available services
There is a negative stigma hindering many people from receiving food assistance
Our Solutions
Create a website (MOhelp.org) where visitors can discover where and when food is shared in their community
Food Sharing events in underserved communities and neighborhoods
Food Sharing events at underserved days and times
Proxy and home delivery programs
Share food with kindness and dignity
Nonprofit of the Year
Manzanita Outreach is honored to be recognized by the Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona for our response in the Verde Valley during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Because of generous donors like you, we have been able to build infrastructure to respond to increased demand for food assistance in the Verde Valley.
We are privileged to be able to share food with our neighbors who need it most.
Supporing Teachers, Supporting Students
School Programs
We believe that a career in education, more than any other profession, bears the greatest responsibility in shaping our society’s future.
While schools do their best to support their teachers, there are gaps in service that affect the educational outcomes of students.
Teachers, on average, spend over $800 on classroom supplies and snacks out of their own pockets. Our two school programs fill that gap in the Verde Valley.
Snack Boxes
MO Packs for Teachers provides teachers with a box of snacks for their classrooms.
A MO Pack for Teachers is a box containing a variety of individually wrapped snack items for distribution to students within the classroom.
This program is currently serving 43 schools and youth programs - over 550 teachers and over 8,000 of our community’s youth - in the Verde Valley with monthly deliveries.
Give Local, Keep Local
Arizona taxpayers filing as "Single" can get up to $400 tax credit. "Married filing jointly" can get up to $800 tax credit.
The Five A’s of Community Food Security
A community is food-secure when all residents are aware of where and when an adequate supply of affordable food is available to them and everyone has physical access to the food.
WE SCRAM!
Scale
Processes are designed and built to scale as needed
Collaborate
Fosters collaborations with key organizations such as schools, churches, emergency management, food assistance providers, etc
Respond
Readiness and willingness to respond as community needs change
Adapt
Our various Food Sharing models are designed to adapt to any situation to respond to underserved communities, neighborhood or even homes of residents with the community
Mobilize
As a mobile, outreach organization we bring food to the underserved communities, neighborhoods and homes
Creating community food security is contingent on the community’s capacity and willingness to ensure everyone has access to enough food to eat regardless of their personal circumstances. Manzanita Outreach works with community leaders and organizations to ensure all residents, regardless of their personal circumstances, have their most basic life needs met.