Early in 2015, the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank is in the midst of changes.

Some have been exterior, such as a reorganization of the bank’s interior to expand storage and keep boxes of food out of sight of the clothing bank. And bank leaders are looking at the possibility of expanding into a secondary space, Program Coordinator Rebecca Rayner said.

But the bank is also expanding its service footprint through two new services adapted from similar programs in neighboring organizations: a grocery delivery service for clients who can’t easily travel and a supplementary food program for grade school students on spring break.

Under the delivery program, dubbed “Groceries 2 Go,” food bank volunteers boxes of food and sanitary products to clients for whom travel to the bank is difficult to impossible. The program is modeled after similar services from Eastside Baby Corner. Clients might be homebound from a chronic medical condition, temporary immobility from surgery, lack of access to transportation or other barrier.

“The reality is there may be people who aren’t coming to the food bank because they physically can’t,” Coordinator Kelly Schmidt said.

Schmidt, a former Microsoft recruiter who chose to go into human services after caretaking for her late sister, was hired as coordinator for the Groceries 2 Go program under a grant from the Satterberg Foundation. Her role was to implement deliveries without stressing the human resources of the food bank.

The program began in October through partnerships with area affordable housing organizations, such as Imagine Housing and YWCA Family Village in the Issaquah Highlands.

“These are places that have case managers on site who know who could benefit from food delivery,” Schmidt said.

Starting with 15 households, the food bank operated as a waystation for the program. Case managers submitted grocery orders, donors brought in groceries, food bank volunteers organized them into boxes for delivery and case managers returned to pick up the boxes and bring them to clients.

In six months, the program has expanded to 34 households, including personal residences — facilitated through caretakers and volunteers with Catholic Community Services — and Tiger Mountain Community High School. The program has also added a second delivery day during the week.

“Some clients worry that this is a burden,” Schmidt said. “This isn’t a burden. This is something we have resources available to do and volunteers available to do.”

The bank is presently preparing to pilot another program, its spring break food program, at Issaquah Valley and Clark elementary schools. It is working in partnership with the Issaquah Schools Foundation and Kiwanis. The program is modeled after a similar service within the Kirkland Nourishing Network which provides a week’s worth of groceries to students to eat during school vacation, when school meal programs are unavailable, Rayner said.

“(Lack of food) definitely affects you,” Rayner said. “You can’t focus. You can’t remember information. You can’t sit still at your desk. A lot of those kids with ADD are probably just hungry.”

Like the food bank’s regular operations, the spring break program doesn’t require people signing up to prove a need — only that they live within the bank’s service area.

The bank is soliciting client sign-ups, as well as donors to register and shop for groceries. The food will be dropped off at Our Savior Lutheran Church April 1 and April 2, with the donations going out to families later in the day April 2.

More information can be found at issaquahfoodbank.org or by calling the Food and Clothing Bank at 425-391-4123.