Poverello offers short-term food assistance programs for individuals and households experiencing food insecurity. Eligibility depends on where you live and your current circumstances.
Short-term grocery assistance for Broward County residents
Poverello's Emergency Food Program provides short-term grocery assistance for adults and households experiencing an immediate financial hardship or emergency need. No chronic illness or diagnosis is required.
You may qualify if you are 18 or older and experiencing:
Loss of a job
Loss or reduction of income or other assistance
An emergency need for food
Participants cannot currently receive SNAP benefits or be enrolled in another food assistance program. Eligible clients can receive weekly groceries for up to six weeks while our team helps connect them with longer-term resources.
Submitting the form does not guarantee eligibility. Our team will review your information and contact you about next steps.
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Food assistance for residents of the 33311 ZIP code
With support from Florida Blue Foundation, Poverello's 33311 Eats Well program provides food and nutrition support specifically for eligible individuals and households living in the 33311 ZIP code.
The program builds on Poverello's Food Is Medicine approach by improving access to nutritious groceries and helping address the connection between food insecurity and better health.
Eligibility requirements apply. Our team will review your information and contact you about next steps.
Made possible with support from Florida Blue Foundation.
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Serving thousands of South Floridians living with HIV and chronic illness each year.
100%
client choice — every item in the cart is selected by the client
21
meals per week in a typical grocery cart
28
servings of fresh fruit and vegetables each week
Poverello's Eat Well Center is one of the only specialty food pantries in the nation offering 100% client-choice, medically tailored groceries, curated by a licensed nutritionist and built around each client's specific health needs.
100% client-choice grocery selection
Menus curated by a licensed nutritionist
Serving Miami-Dade, Broward & Palm Beach
Every visit, clients shop our pantry like a grocery store, filling a cart with their own selections based on a monthly point allotment. Choices span the full range of a healthy kitchen: fresh seafood from salmon to shellfish, all types of protein for different diets, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, spices, and pantry staples, all curated by our licensed nutritionist to support conditions like HIV, diabetes, heart disease, and kidney disease. Larger items like a whole chicken might cost more points, while smaller staples cost less, giving clients real choice over how to build out their kitchen each month.
Can't make it to one of our pantry locations? Through our partnership with DoorDash, eligible clients in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties can receive free grocery delivery right to their door.
How it works:
Place your order through the blue "Order Food" button below.
We'll call you at the phone number on file to coordinate a delivery time.
Our volunteer drivers will call when they're close and deliver right to your doorstep, so please be home for your scheduled window.
For clients coordinating through a doctor's office, DoorDash drivers can meet you there directly, so you can either pick up your groceries on-site or have them delivered straight to your home.
Ask your Intake Coordinator whether DoorDash delivery is available for your address.
We're also excited to be bringing mobile pop-up food distributions to communities across South Florida soon. Stay tuned for upcoming dates and locations.
Poverello events, mobile food and testing pop-ups, and thrift store sales are all listed below. Use the filters to narrow the list — some listings happen on a single date, others repeat week to week.
Food Is Medicine starts with a simple truth: health doesn't happen in a doctor's office alone. Social determinants of health, things like access to nutritious food, stable housing, and transportation, shape outcomes as much as medical care does. For people living with HIV, diabetes, cancer, or other chronic conditions, the right groceries aren't just a meal, they're part of staying healthy and on track with treatment.
Since 1987, The Poverello Center has delivered the equivalent of more than 2 million weeks of nutritious food to our South Florida neighbors living with chronic illness. No one should have to choose between eating and living.
That's the idea behind Food Is Medicine: nutrition isn't separate from healthcare, it's a core part of it.
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