Food Drive for Food Pantry Consortium of lower Plymouth County
Submitted by Joan E Thompson on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 17:08.
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Community:
Serving food pantries in Plymouth, Kingston, Carver, Hanson, Marshfield, Wareham, Pembroke, Duxbury,Onset, and Manomet.
Primary Organizer (e.g. Name of individual, organization, or business):
Greater Plymouth Food Warehouse, a program of South Shore Community Action Council, Inc.
Location(s)
Greater Plymouth Food Warehouse
14 Apollo 11 Road
Plymouth, MAUnited States
Additional Collaborators:
Stop'n'Shop - Manomet, MA; Stop'n'Shop - Kingston, MA; Shaw's Supermarket - Plymouth
Contact Name:
Joan E Thompson
Contact Phone:
(508) 746-7787
Contact E-Mail:
MayflowerRSVP@verizon.net
Need & Goals:
The quantity of food distributed to local pantries from the Greater Plymouth Food Warehouse has doubled in the past year. Donated food and the people to handle it need to increase proportionately!
On December 8, from 9 to 1pm. 12 - 20 Volunteers will invite grocery store customers to fill a Warehouse grocery bag with suggested items for the Food Warehouse. As they shop, they will pick up the items they're purchaing for the Food Collection. After paying for the groceries, they will leave their Warehouse bag, filled with their donated items with the Collection Volunteers. This volunteer assignment provides a concrete way to spread the Holiday Spirit and help hungry people eat all winter long and on into spring!
Funding:
Personal and business donations provide the operating budget; Volunteers provide the labor to collect, sort, bag and deliver the food.
Successes, Challenges, Current Status:
In a first-of-its-kind effort, the Plymouth North High School Freshman Football Team organized a food drive on November 3, 2007, at their high school's weight room. With the help of coaches Michael Martin, Michael Cuomo, Jeff McCormack, and Pat Shaw, the team gathered to load the van full of food - over 100 grocery bags for the Food Warehouse! In 2002, the South Shore Community Action Council, Inc. formed the Greater Plymouth Food Resource Group, a network of more than 20 programs providing food assistance to their clients. The warehouse all donations in donated space at the North Plymouth Industrial Park. The goal is to get more nutritious food to more hungry local people in a more cost effective way through coordinated food pick-up, transprot, storage and distribution. VOLUNTEERS are the catalytic "converter" from where the food was to where it needs to go! This year the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program of Mayflower RSVP, Inc., is collaborating to expand the number of collection sites manned by volunteers for this Holiday Food Drive. Interested prospective volunteers of any age may contact Joan at RSVP (508) 746-7787 for information on scheduling volunteers.
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