This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: Greetings Food Closet Donors: The cold weather has come and winter is around the bend. The donations you make to the Food Closet warm both hearts and bodies during this season. Last week’s donations were 0 grocery donations and 0 in cash contributions. It is unusual to have no donations, but as Christmas approaches it is typical that donations pick up.
Drop off donations at the Food Closet. The Diocese allows food pantries to remain open during Covid. All Saints 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 new 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:
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- Pasta – Spaghetti, rotini but please no whole wheat
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- Ramen noodle soup
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- Canned corn
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- Canned or cups of fruit
- Quaker oats original style
Non-food items:
Bags with handles (please no department store bags)
Ziploc bags: sandwich size
Rubber bands Quaker oats – original style
Note: the food closet is oversupplied with egg cartons – please no additional ones until further noticed 🙂
