This Week’s Needs at the Food Closet: Dear Donors – the last 2 week’s donations were 3 bags of grocery donations and $2 in cash donations. 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 their community in need.
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.
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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:
Non-food items:
- cans or plastic cups of fruit.
- 15 oz cans of corn
- Hearty Soups (including broth and ramen noodles
- Jam
Peanut butter (not organic please)
Canned protein foods – tuna, Spam, vienna sausage etc.
Non Food Items
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sandwich size ziploc bags
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paper towels
