Country Neighbor serves as the Ashtabula County Food Bank providing food to 24 food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens located throughout our county. Country Neighbor’s responsibility includes ongoing identification of areas of food insecurity, developing partnerships to address the need, actively seek resources both financial and product sourcing on behalf of the Ashtabula County food pantry network, distributing food products to sites, monitoring and providing oversight and mandatory training, delivering product to the organizations on a bi-monthly basis or more often as appropriate, ensure each site gets their fair share of available product, ensure compliance with all federal, state and local regulations, completion of required monthly and annual reporting documents to USDA, Cleveland Food Bank and any other entity as requested.