Gov. Tom Wolf announced nearly $16 million in funding for Pennsylvania food banks, which are providing critical assistance during the COVID-19 health crisis.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has received $14.9 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for The Emergency Food Assistance Program in Pennsylvania to provide critical support and food to food banks and emergency food assistance networks working to feed the hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

The department will push $3.75 million in TEFAP money directly to 18 food banks to cover administrative costs associated with storage, transportation, and distribution of USDA Foods.

In addition, the department will distribute $11.15 million in USDA Foods to the state’s food banks. The food and funding will be disbursed to all 67 counties and distributed based on population and need.

Hunger-Free Pennsylvania is the state’s largest nonprofit provider of food resources for hungry Pennsylvanians. The $1 million in state funding will be distributed, based on the population of individuals in need, across their network of 18 food banks in all 67 Pennsylvania counties.

Funding includes:

• Monroe County, $49,341.32

• Helping Harvest, serving Berks and Schuylkill counties, $171,612.19

• Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania, serving Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Pike and Wayne counties, $221,188.69