First Of Its Kind Mobile Food Pantry Opens in Las Vegas

I often fantasize about being able to do that Jon Bon Jovi level of reaching out, and just GIVING to anyone in need. Maybe one day.

In the meantime, The Just One Project is doing all they canto reach out - they have opened the "first of its kind" mobile food pantry in Las Vegas.

The group behind Southern Nevada’s largest mobile food pantry debuted its community market at a Las Vegas middle school last week.

According to a news release, the Just One Project, which distributes groceries to more than 20,000 food-insecure residents each month, opened the market at Garside Junior High School.

The organization says the classroom-sized “Community Market at Garside” is the first market from the Just One Project to open inside a CCSD school.

Open Monday through Friday during school hours, the by-appointment, no-cost community market will offer organization’s services and support to the Garside students and their families.

Staffed by case managers from the Just One Project, the market will offer Garside families fresh groceries, recipes, nutritional advice, household items, school supplies and more.

According to the release, families who visit the market can also access the organization’s Community Connect wraparound services, including homeless prevention assistance and other supportive services.

Brooke Neubauer, founder and CEO of The Just One Project, told attendees at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, that families and children will love the space the team has created, noting that the team wants families to access groceries like they would at a grocery store.

When students saw the market on Thursday, they remarked, “Wow, this is like a grocery store,” she said.

The nonprofit purchases food and also partners with Three Square food bank.

The Just One Project — founded in 2014 — has grown quickly, expanding from seven staff members two years ago to about 50 now. It has more than 40 mobile community markets, as well as a market on North Rancho Drive. It has partnered with the Clark County School District since 2016.

To learn more about the Just One Project, visit www.TheJustOneProject.org.

-Carla Rea