Make an impact while planning for your future

At first, she tried (largely in vain) to get others to join her to address the need in their own community. Finally, Mim decided she could wait no longer. One day, she loaded groceries into the back of her station wagon and drove to a Lexington neighborhood where few of her friends ever ventured. Then it happened. Mim Hunt reached into her car and handed a can of food to one of her neighbors in need.

Soon, neighbors were bringing food donations to what became known as “Mim’s Pantry” located at her home on Lexington’s Parkers Mill Road. But Mim quickly corrected them.

“I don’t fill these shelves,” she said. “God does. This is God’s Pantry.” That was the beginning of God’s Pantry Food Bank in 1955.

Now, Mim’s legacy, God’s Pantry Food Bank, distributes more than 44 million pounds of food annually to at least 220,000 people through a network of 500+ nonprofit food pantries and meal programs in 50 Central and Eastern Kentucky counties.

Mim and her second husband, Bob, made a bequest with their legal counsel to provide for the people and causes they cared about through the “Mim and Bob Hunt Memorial Fund” now administered by the Blue Grass Community Foundation. Every year God’s Pantry Food Bank receives a gift thoughtfully planned by Mim and Bob to provide food and hope to neighbors who are experiencing hunger.

We remember Mim, whose lone activism started it all. Her legacy of reducing hunger and delivering hope lives on each day at God’s Pantry Food Bank.

She is not alone. Through their careful planning, many other friends have made gifts to God’s Pantry Food Bank through their will, beneficiary designations, or other planned gifts. The Mim Hunt Society honors these friends whose legacy continues to help us reduce hunger and nourish lives in Central and Eastern Kentucky. We hope you will join them in this important work through your own personal legacy.