The Breakfast Program, serving nutritious meals daily to families in need.
8:30AM-9:30AM Monday through Friday

The Feed A Friend Program, an emergency food pantry founded in 1985. Open daily, it also provides Thanksgiving and December Holiday baskets to families in need.
10:00AM-2:00PM Monday through Friday

Chiropractic Care, a weekly diagnostic screening and treatment clinic for the uninsured.

Emergency Services Disaster Site, designated by the City of Newport.

Did you know?

• The Martin Luther King Community Center has been helping families with their nutritional needs since the late 1980’s
• The Center operates Newport County’s only daily meal site, our breakfast program, and the highest-volume food pantry operation in the area
• In 2008 the Center produced over 76,000 meals for families and individual needs – 13,608 breakfasts, 45,570 food pantry meals, a record level, and an additional 16,890 meals in holiday baskets during November and December
• The community’s needs are increasing – in 1999, the Center provided 9,375 just food pantry meals.
• About 30% of the families who accessed the food pantry at the MLKCC over the last 9 months have been brand-new. Many are families with 2 working parents, 2 or 3 jobs, and sometimes a college degree. Many live in communities not usually known for poverty, like Portsmouth, Jamestown, Tiverton and Little Compton.  Around 70% of the food currently available at the Center’s Food Pantry is the result of food drives and local donations.

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