This web site will acquaint you with the Valley Interfaith Food & Clothing Center. We are the pre-eminent volunteer organization in the upper Millcreek Valley, dedicated to helping the less fortunate in that thirteen-community area.

Thanks for visiting our website. If you'd like to contribute to the fulfillment of our mission, please phone us at 513-821-3233 , visit us in Lockland at 420 W. Wyoming Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45215 or email us at info@vifcc.org.

Our Mission

To help our neighbors meet short term emergency needs for food, clothing and other needed services.

Profile

The Valley Interfaith Food and Clothing Center (VIFCC) was founded in 1963 by

volunteers from two Wyoming churches. The mission of the Center was to help our

less fortunate neighbors meet short term, emergency needs for food and clothing in

the immediate area.

Over the years, a number of other faith communities recognized the benefit of having

a single agency minister to the less fortunate in their area, and signed on as sponsors.

The Center is currently the agent for 28 faith communities and serves 13 communities

in the Mill Creek Valley and contiguous areas.

The services provided by the Center have also expanded over the years. In addition to providing food, clothing, and personal care items, we offer limited emergency financial assistance to forestall evictions and utility shut-offs, as well as limited funds for emergency transportation and medication. The Center also has on-site services of the Community Action Agency (CAA), as well as assistance with Food Stamp and Social Security/Medicare applications. Importantly, we help clients locate outside agencies which provide needed services not available at the Center.

We depend on private donations of clothing, food, personal care products, household items and funds to provide the above services. The Center purchases a majority of its non-donated food supplies from Cincinnati’s FreeStore/FoodBank and we follow USDA guidelines in selecting what we offer to our clients. Clients are required to provide substantiation of need, and to discourage dependency, are limited in the frequency of their visits. The entire operation is supported by the generous services of a cadre of 140 volunteers.

We assist an average of 35 families each day of operation, which equates to over 15,000 people served each year. The majority of our clients (81%) need food, about half (46%) need clothing and personal care items, and 14% require financial assistance.

The Center is dedicated to providing an efficient, effective and compassionate system for meeting the needs of our clients.