Food banks, legal aid and community action near you, and links that fix themselves
Every county and city page now lists the food bank, the free legal aid group and the community action agency that serve it, and broken links are found and fixed on their own.
When you need food, a lawyer or help with a bill, the place to call is often a local nonprofit, not a state office. Three national networks of nonprofits cover nearly every county. Front Door now lists them, from each network’s own published list.
- Food banks in the Feeding America network: 197 food banks and the counties each one serves, from Feeding America’s food bank locator. A food bank supplies the pantries and meal sites near you, and its card links its “find food” page when it has one.
- Free legal help funded by the Legal Services Corporation: 121 legal aid groups and their service areas, from LSC’s own data.
- Community action agencies: 939 local nonprofits and public agencies that help people with low incomes, from each state’s own list of the agencies and the counties they serve. Where an agency serves part of a county or one city, its card says so.
- County and city pages have a new section, “Nonprofits that serve” the place, grouped as Food bank, Free legal help and Community action. A city shows its own agency first, then its county’s.
- Ask “food bank near me” with your ZIP code and the answer starts with the food bank for your county. Legal questions start with the legal aid group, and questions about bills or rent with the community action agency.
- The kinds of help pages for each state now list them too: food banks on Food, legal aid on Legal, and community action agencies on Money and Housing. Washington’s Legal page also lists its free help lines, like CLEAR.
- Local offices on place pages now start with human services, food, housing, health and legal help. Parks and city service lines come last.
- Links fix themselves. Every three days we recheck every link on offices, nonprofits and programs. A link that is broken twice in a row is replaced with the current official page, but only when that page loads, is on the same organization’s site or a .gov site, and names the office. Otherwise the link is hidden and the office stays. Every change is logged with its evidence.
- Our coverage now counts local nonprofits.