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Food Is The Gateway To Hope
CCMI is an innovative nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization made up of social service entrepreneurs fighting to end homelessness and hunger in our community. The agency provides more than 14,000 meals each month through their Everyday Café & Marketplace and Home Delivered Meals programs. CCMI also educates 40 children in their Community Montessori, offers homeless and comprehensive case management services through their United Way Resource House, oversees an emergency mobile food pantry and supplies weekend backpacks full of food to more than 2,500 children each school year.
CCMI serves Fort Myers and the greater Lee County area, including Bonita Springs, Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres. CCMI works in partnership with United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades, Harry Chapin Food Bank and various community foundations as well as collaborating with fellow community and service groups including The School District of Lee County and numerous churches, businesses and community support organizations.
The Story of CCMI
Community Cooperative Ministries (CCMI) was incorporated in 1984, and has long been a driving force in the Fort Myers community, providing food to homeless and nearly homeless, as well as emergency groceries and affordable childcare to the working poor. In July of 2006 the agency expanded its mission and outreach to Lee County by merging with agencies that had historically provided home delivered meals to the homebound hungry (Meals on Wheels), and transportation services to the frail elderly. This merger created an agency that is able to provide comprehensive services to the homeless, nearly homeless, homebound, seniors and children more effectively, more efficiently and with greater compassion than at any other time in the former agencies histories.
CCMI is dedicated to providing nutritious meals, groceries, transportation, affordable childcare and referral services to the homeless, homebound, seniors, working poor, children and the frail in our community. The populations we serve have been identified as some of the neediest in Lee County.
Our clients are primarily elderly, homeless and/or working poor, including children.
In Dunbar where the Soup Kitchen and our new United Way House is located, 30.4% of the population lives in poverty. The most recent Homeless Survey conducted by Lee County Human Services projects that there are over 3,000 homeless residents in Lee County with a majority living in the downtown/Dunbar area. There can be no doubt that these segments of the population will only grow and become needier in time. In addition in 2005, 22.7% of the population in Lee County was over the age of 65, and as baby boomers age up the demand for services for the elderly will be even greater. Our agency is positioning itself to deal with the increased community need.
Mailing Address:
Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc.
P.O. Box 2143
Fort Myers, Florida
33902 3429
Main Office Address:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Fort Myers, Florida 33916
239-332-7687 (SOUP)
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