Fighting Hunger and Strengthening Community

Working in partnership to share good food since 1986.

2024 Holiday Food Drive

Click here to download our Holiday Food Drive Wish List

Looking for a way to help share Thanksgiving meals with our community members?

Help us pack Thanksgiving boxes for families by donating items off our Holiday Food Drive Wish List!

Please drop donations off at our warehouse by 11:30am on Friday, November 22nd. 

Our warehouse is located at 135 Walton Street in Portland, ME on the corner of Walton Street and Canco Road. Use Canco Road to enter our parking lot.

Our 2023 Impact Report is now available.

Wayside’s impact report is our way of celebrating and sharing with you what you have helped make possible in the previous year. It is also an opportunity to provide details about our operations, finances, programs, and partnerships.

Community Meals

Our Community Meals share delicious meals in welcoming settings. 

Man and woman moving food carts

Food Rescue

Wayside is a hub for donors and a network of partner agencies.

A medley of berries, grapes, oranges, and pineapple.

Mobile Food Pantries

We collaborate with various partners to deliver groceries to neighborhoods.

One man handing a box to another man

Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a senior food assistance program.

In 2023, through partnership, Wayside diverted 1 million lbs. of edible food from the waste stream.