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Events
We have many ways for you to make a difference in your community. Please visit our website for our upcoming events and food drives.
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Grocery Outlet Stores' Independence from Hunger Food Drive
The Grocery Outlet stores conducted their first Independence from Hunger food drive during July. We are very fortunate to have received a fantastic total of 3,323 pounds of food and $544 from the Antioch, Concord, Pinole and San Pablo stores! The champ was the Concord store that rallied everyday and made sure every customer had the opportunity to help others in need. Our local Grocery Outlet stores are independently owned and operated by people who are committed to giving back to the local community. Thank you Grocery Outlet owners, employees and customers for so generously giving and helping us provide for the needs of our community.
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Safeway Summer Food Drive | 
This summer Safeway added in a 3 week food drive from July 5th to July 26th. Safeway selected the items that we need most such as cereal, tuna, peanut butter, rice, canned vegetables, pasta and canned tomato products, packed them in a premade grocery bag ready for the customer to purchase and place in our barrel. For a simple $10 cost, you the customer had an easy way to donate food to us. And thanks to you, we received over 25,000 pounds of much needed food from this summer food drive. If you missed this opportunity, no worries, as Safeway will be bringing back the $10 prepacked bag from mid-November through early December. What an easy way to donate the most needed food items to us. Thank you Safeway and all of you that purchased a bag for us! |
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Help Your Community, Help Your Food Bank!
Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek have upcoming Community Service Days where residents come together for one day to make a difference. We are fortunate to be a part of both of these days with a neighborhood food drive as one of their community projects. Pleasant Hill is hosting its 7th annual Community Service Day on Saturday September 24th and Walnut Creek is hosting its 1st annual Community Service Day on Saturday October 1st.
The Neighborhood Food Drive Project is fun and will help provide food at a slow time for us. You can do this as an individual or as a group. We provide new paper bags, you create a flyer (we have some samples), you attach your flyers to the bags, and you place the bag/flyer on your neighbors' doorsteps 3 to 7 days in advance. Then on Community Service Day (9/24 or 10/1), you go back to the houses where you left bags and see all of the bags of food waiting for you. Gather up the bags of food and bring them back to the park where Food Bank staff will be waiting for you. It is as easy as that and very rewarding as you know you are helping others receive the food they need. We will weigh your food at the Food Bank and then send you a thank you letter stating how much you collected. Everything you collect will be more food than we had before and add smiles to many people in our community (and will especially add a smile to you).
This is a great project for youth groups, scouts, and church groups; in fact it is a great project for everyone! To sign up or for more information, visit www.foodbankccs.org/events.
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It Is Holiday Food Drive Time!
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As we approach the end of August, the volume of food drive food we have to sort/box and distribute is greatly reduced. We always worry that we will have to cancel volunteer groups in September and October. But more importantly, is the question "Will we have the variety and volume of nonperishable food we need to feed our community"?
Along comes mid-September and the requests for holiday barrels. The phones start ringing, the emails and faxes starting arriving and we start working fast and furious. Yes, we do look forward to the holidays every year. When you look at August and see all of our barrels in the racks and then you look at November and December and all of the barrels are full just waiting to be sorted and the food distributed, you know your hard work was all worth it! We receive many thank you notes from those we help and to read the letters and go to a food distribution and see the smiles is the confirmation that we as a community are making a difference and ARE "Working to end hunger".
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August 2011
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What we wish for every holiday season
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The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is Taking Action!
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September is Hunger Action Month. The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano joins with Feeding America food banks across the country and our partner hunger relief agencies to ask everyone to play a role in fighting domestic hunger.
Hunger affects communities all across the country-rural, urban, and suburban. Right here in Contra Costa and Solano counties, 1 in 6 of our neighbors struggle with hunger. The problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Throughout the campaign, the Food Bank will call on you to take action. In addition, we've teamed up with celebrities to tell the real stories of those struggling with hunger.
Read more on our Food Bank Blog and join us this Hunger Action Month! Together we create a voice for those struggling with hunger in Contra Costa and Solano counties.
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