Food drives

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Can anyone tell me which local stores/organizations/etc. are currently doing food drives? I was just reading an article about how food pantries are running seriously low on supplies lately, and I know that there are often food drives going on around this time of year. Thanks in advance!

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

Urban Oasis (in Inman Sq) and Harvest Coop (in Central) both have places to bring shelf-stable foods.

[ron_newman]

Somerville Homeless Coalition runs Project SOUP as well as the shelter at College Ave. Methodist Church.

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

I volunteer at St. Paul's in Harvard Square, and they're really in need of donations. They do great work, so please consider donating there....

http://www.stpaulparish.org/social.html#foodpantry

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Tags has a bin for food donations in the foyer outside their store.

Turkeys

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

So if someone wanted to donate a few turkeys for thanksgiving, or is that not necessary or too overboard of a donation

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

The Wainwright Bank branch in Davis has a box in the lobby for canned-goods donations.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

As someone who runs a food pantry, I would suggest either just donating money, or at least contacting the program you want to support in advance to find out what they need.

Unsolicited donations of random foodstuffs are an incredibly inefficient way of getting food into the emergency food system, and often more work than they're worth for the program that receives them.

[wonkywheels.livejournal.com]

I've seen a donation box at the Bally's gym in Porter Square.

[othniel77.livejournal.com]

http://www.fanswithcans.org