11/07/2025
NEWS RELEASE: Optimae LifeServices supports food banks in its service area with $30,000 donation
Optimae LifeServices announced today it is donating $30,000 to be distributed among the four Feeding America food banks located within the geographic footprint where its service regions are located.
The monetary donation will assist in the storage and distribution of food resources as the food banks support community food pantries across Iowa.
The food banks receiving the donations include Food Bank of Iowa, HACAP Food Reservoir, Northeast Iowa Food Bank and River Bend Food Bank.
“In keeping with our brand promise to be at the side and on the side of our customers, colleagues and communities, Optimae is donating these funds to the food banks in our service footprint to lessen the burden the delay in SNAP benefits will cause many Iowans, including those we provide services to and those who work with us,” said William “Bill” Dodds, chair of the board of directors at Optimae LifeServices.
The donation reflects Optimae’s long history of supporting the Iowa communities where its employees live and provide support, and is in addition to Optimae's annual menstrual health drive (which, since its launch in 2021, has contributed the equivalent of $20,000 in menstrual products) and foodstuff donations that local offices make throughout the year to their local food pantries — as well as free lunches at Optimae’s Recovery and Resource Centers (administered by its Behavioral Health division) and volunteer meal preparation in partnership with various community outreach programs.
In Feeding America's latest annual Map the Meal Gap study of food insecurity, released in May 2025 and based on 2023 data, the organization reported that 12% of Iowans ( 1 in 8 ) and 16.6% of Iowa children ( 1 in 6 ) face food insecurity. All 99 Iowa counties saw an increase in food insecurity in the latest report.
