SAVE THE DATE – NOVEMBER 26, 2026
More than 1.7 million individuals throughout South Florida are expected to experience food insecurity this holiday season. Feeding South Florida®, the leading hunger-relief organization serving Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, will host its inaugural Thanksgiving Community Feast on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Hard Rock Stadium, bringing together 500 guests for a traditional Thanksgiving meal in a celebration centered on hosp-itality, connection and community support.
To help bring this event to life, Feeding South Florida is partnering with Florida Dairy Farmers, Hispanic Unity, City of West Park, Eat Well Exchange, Heart & Hand Outreach, Lucky Strike Entertainment, Sistrunk Seeds, Southern Flow Logistics, Bank of America, Miami-Dade County and The Light Preparatory Academy Inc.
Each year, Feeding South Florida helps South Florida families celebrate Thanksgiving through holiday food distributions across the four counties it serves. In 2025 alone, the nonprofit organization provided turkeys and traditional holiday side items to more than 15,500 families, giving them the ingredients needed to prepare Thanksgiving meals at home.
Those distributions also high-lighted a challenge that food alone cannot address. Some community members shared that they had no one to celebrate with because they had lost a spouse or loved one, lived far from family, lacked transportation or experienced social isolation. Those conversations inspired Feeding South Florida to conceptualize the first Thanksgiving Community Feast.
In an effort to provide longer-term support, community resource partners will be on-site to provide information and connect guests with programs for food assistance, benefits enrollment, workforce development and other supportive services.
Sponsorships and monetary donations are the primary drivers behind making the Thanksgiving Community Feast possible, funding the holiday meal and the overall guest experience. Feeding South Florida invites businesses, organizations and individuals to support the event through sponsorship or a monetary gift to help bring the Thanksgiving Community Feast to life.
