Nightingales Harvest, a nonprofit, Toledo-based food bank that serves cancer patients, is struggling to keep food on its shelves.

Ken and Lisa Eisenbach, both nurses, started the food bank 15 years ago in honor of a friend, Kim Mardini-Channer, who died of cancer. The pantry provides free food, hygiene products, and cleaning supplies.

Mrs. Eisenbach recalls driving her friend, who had just been diagnosed with colon cancer to chemotherapy treatments, when the idea of starting a food bank popped into her head.

While in the waiting room, she heard about the economic strain for patients of buying food.

“I met a lot of people, most of whom were struggling,” Mrs. Eisenbach said.

Ms. Mardini-Channer, a mother of four, was also dealing with food insecurity.

“She wasn’t working and had no pay

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