This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: Holiday Greetings from the Food Closet. The Food Closet will be closed on Christmas Day and the day after. In the last two weeks 6 grocery bags of groceries, 2 bags of paper bags with handles and $20 were donated. Note below: plastic bags are again requested – generally, due to environmental concerns this is not preferable. However, during rainy weather the customers really need bags that will hold up to the wet and damp. So please, if you have those to spare they are needed now. As always, thank you for your generous donations whenever and however you can contribute
Drop off donations at the Food Closet. COVID is still present, 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:
Hearty soups (ie. -Progresso, Campbell’s Chunky, Healthy Choice or ramen noodles)
Canned fruit or fruit in a cups
Traditional Quaker oats (please, not the instant packets)
Cereal: (ie., – cheerios, Frosted Flakes, corn flakes, Honey Nut Crunch)
Non-food Items
newspaper sleeves
Brown pepper bags with handles
Plastic shopping bags (like Safeway’s)
rubber bands
