This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: The prior week’s donations were 6 grocery bags of food donations, two of supplies and bags and $0.00 of cash donations. It’s so wonderful that St. Mark’s consistently comes through with the much needed shelf items that fill the Food Closet’s week-to-week gaps. It is truly inspiring to think that you are shopping for or donating from your own home shelves – food for people you will likely never meet because you want to help support them in their day-to-day needs. As always, thank you for your generous donations towards the care of our less fortunate neighbors.
Drop off donations at the Food Closet. As the Covid peak is here now, a reminder that The Diocese allows food pantries to remain open during Covid. The Food Closet is taking precautions to protect staff, volunteers, customers and donors using a protocol from Second Harvest, the main Food Closet donor.
The address and hours are:
425 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto
-M, T, W, F: 9 am-2:30 pm
-Thursday: 9 am to 2:30 pm
(except 12 pm to 1 pm when closed for staff meeting)
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Access is via the blue side door that opens onto Hamilton Street. Please call ahead – (650) 325-3663 to let them know you are coming. Please do not drop off food after hours – it brings up a variety of concerns as people often congregate unsafely after hours to go through the food.
Donating by Check:
You can also donate by check. Check donations will be used to purchase needed shortfall items.
Please write a check to the Downtown Streets Team, and write in the memo line “For Food Closet”.
Checks can be mailed to:
Project Manager
Downtown Streets Team
1671 The Alameda, Suite 306
San Jose, CA 95126
Current Food Donation Requests:
Boxes of dry cereal (raisin bran, life, cheerios, honey bunches of oats, etc).
Quaker oatmeal (traditional type not steelcut)
soup: including chicken broth and ramen
15 oz canned corn and peas
l lb bags of pasta
Non-food Items
sandwich size and snack size ziploc bags
newspaper sleeves
rubber bands
plastic bread fasteners
