This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: Dear Donors – Great news to share from the Food Closet. You may have read here that the Food Closet closed early last Friday to start an all weekend Spring Cleaning effort. But that’s not all – the Rotary Club played a major role by paying for a fumigation, donating brand new rolling shelves and contributing hours of labor for the set up of the new shelving. Additionally, they are excited to come back and do even more for the Food Closet in the future! So a shout out to the Rotary Club and also to our donors who in the past two weeks donated 14 bags of groceries, 2 bags of supplies and $20 in cash. These donations are going a long way to restock those new shelves. The Food Closet is beginning to recover from weeks of severely limited supply with your generous contributions. A big thanks to our ever commited donors at St. Mark’s.
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.
Non-food items:
Brown grocery bags (WITH handles please)
ziploc bags (sandwich size)
