This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: Dear Donors – we are well into the 2024 New Year and the Downtown Streets Team’s Food Closet staff and volunteers extend a grateful thank yous for your marvelous efforts! You helped make 2023 a successful year for the Food Closet by providing free groceries to the growing numbers of people in need in our community. Your generosity and thoughtfulness are exemplary and there simply are not enough thank yous to be given for your consistent support of the Food Closet. So may 2024 be a happy, healthy and prosperous year for all – thank you!
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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15 oz cans corn, diced tomatoes, peas
Hearty soups – like Progresso, ramen noodle soup or broths
Pasta – Spaghetti, rotini but please no whole wheat
Mac and cheese boxed or microwaveable cups
Peanut butter (but please not the oily organic)
Canned or cups of fruit
Non-food items:
-Bags with handles or plastic grocery bags (please no department store bags)
-Plastic newspaper sleeves
