Urgent Needs: Empty Shelves at Food Closet

This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: Dear Donors – the Food Closet’s shelves are alarmingly bare right now! As always, your generosity is so much appreciated by the members of the community who find themselves food insecure and also by the volunteer staff who commit to serve our community in need. Note: On Friday, 3/15/24 hours will be 9:30 to 12:30 due to a major clean up day of the Food Closet premises.

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) .
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 95126Current Food Donation Requests:

Quaker oats (or generic brand)

dry cereal (Life, raisin bran, corn flakes, etc etc)

Peanut butter (not organic please)

Jam/jelly

15 oz cans of kernel corn