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The Cupboard's Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation campaign is well underway. We desperately need to collect 50,000 pounds of non-perishable donations by August 1 to reach our goal. Donations to date total 10,751.1 pounds of food, which puts us at 22%.
Each summer, we find it harder and harder to reach our donation goals as food needs continue to increase.
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Through the end of May (this year), we've seen a 42% increase in the number of households served over this same time last year while only seeing a 3% increase in our food donations.
Weekly, we are spending an average of $3,300 on items needed for our weekly distribution.
Please consider taking a look at the most needed items listed below and on our website, and consider contributing. We have many amazing partnerships with businesses all around town that will accept donations on our behalf if you can't get to the Cupboard during our open hours.
If you’d like to participate, consider hosting a food drive, or encourage your friends to bring donations to your next gathering! It will truly take a village for us to pull this off!
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Donate nonperishable food items to the Holly Springs Food Cupboard. | |
Organize a food drive at your business, neighborhood, club, or organization. | |
Our goal is to collect 50,000 pounds of food by August 1. Thank you so much for considering helping local families facing food insecurity. | |
Around the Cupboard Last Month | | |
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Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation Awards Grant to Cupboard
Many thanks to the Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation, which awarded a $1,500 Feeding the Hungry grant to the Cupboard to fund additional protein choices for local families experiencing hunger. The grant focuses on providing access to nutritious food and addressing food insecurity. Thank you for helping provide food and hope for families in our community!
Pictured here are Rich Meuse, store manager at Food Lion 938 on Main Street in Holly Springs, with Cupboard Manager Kim Basden. A longtime friend and partner with the Food Cupboard, Rich is always helpful in ensuring Food Cupboard orders are filled every week, and he reached out to the Cupboard to make sure volunteers were aware of the grant opportunity.
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Thank you to the Cary Rotary Charitable Foundation, which provided a $2,000 grant to help fund student bags, which are even more important during the summer months when many kids are out of school and not receiving free or reduced meals at school. Thanks to our liaison and champion Ron Stanton, who reached out to us about the opportunity and took our grant proposal forward. | |
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Thank you so much, Holly Springs runners! Team members from Pace Yourself Run Company Holly Springs completed 131.98 miles during their relay on #globalrunningday2024. With additional donations from both On and the Holly Springs Runners Project, a grand total of $1,390 was donated to the Cupboard, which will fund student bag supplies. Thank you for helping the community! | | |
Many thanks to the Cornerstone Building Brands team, which donated food and worked hard in our garden last month! | |
Burn Boot Camp delivered a cart full of food with lots of items for the student bags we provide to families with school-aged children! | |
Thanks to Green Hope Elementary for donating car loads full of food, cleaning supplies, and toiletries! Delivered across three visits, this photo shows the last of the three deliveries. | |  |
Graham and Addison, both National Junior Honor Society members, each brought in donations as a service project, and we are so thankful for them! | | |
Holly Ridge Elementary Donates Senior Care Kits for Cupboard Clients | |
For their class gift, the 5th graders at Holly Ridge Elementary donated 60 "senior care kits" to the Holly Springs Food Cupboard. Facilitated by the Holly Ridge Elementary PTA and delivered by three of the fifth-grade teachers, the care kits contained snack items, toiletries, puzzle books, and hand-made cards. These care packages are sure to delight some of our older neighbors! | |
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Food Cupboard Farmers Grow Produce for Clients | |
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Meet Josh Hutchins, one of our Food Cupboard Farmers for 2024 who grows fantastic garden produce for the Food Cupboard. His small urban farm produces fresh sweet corn, green beans, okra, peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers for us. He spends many hours planning, planting, irrigating, and weeding during these hot summer-like days and then delivers hundreds of pounds of beautiful vegetables to the Food Cupboard. He is one of our silent heroes! Thanks to Josh and family.
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Our Food Cupboard Farmer Program is open to any producer or gardener who wants to grow for us. Any size garden is eligible.
We will help supply seeds and transplants and will offer advice as you grow for us.
Contact: garden@hsfoodcupboard.org for more information about our Fall 2024 program or plans for 2025.
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Thanks to all of the amazing volunteers, our garden is working overtime this year! We're currently harvesting radishes, sugar snap peas, turnip greens, blueberries, lettuce, chard and kale...and our onions, green beans, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, apples, beets, turnips, grapes, peppers, herbs, zucchini, squash and figs are all coming along nicely! | | |
Did you know that Food Cupboard Garden volunteers are now harvesting about 100 pounds of beautiful and nutritious fruits and vegetables from our garden every week? The produce is amazingly fresh and most of the produce is in the hands of our clients within hours of harvesting. | | |
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This new local team of volunteers, PEAKCITY Puppy and Dog Walkers,
spent their Saturday morning in our garden harvesting sugar snap peas and green beans. They also helped prepare materials for our compost bins and shoveled a bunch of compost! We so appreciate the great support of many local business partners all year long.
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On selected Saturdays, we have a short garden activity for youth. Garden volunteer Heather B plans and leads many of these sessions. The youth learn new gardening techniques, ask a lot of questions, and have plants to take home.
Just one more service to our community!
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Brownies from Girl Scout Troop 449 brought some new watering cans and decorated them with beautiful pictures of bees, flowers, and vegetables. On a hot Saturday morning, they also helped harvest our blueberries and blackberries. | | |
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Dell Technologies donated a huge set of various hand tools and power tools to the Cupboard. These handy tools will help keep our facility and gardens in good shape. | |
Getting Help & Helping Out | |
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Do you need food assistance? Know someone who does?
Please visit us. The Holly Springs Food Cupboard is here to help. Drive through food distribution is every Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Shopping food distribution by appointment only is every Monday, 1-4 p.m. Deliveries are available to persons with compromised health or without transportation. Click here for more information or to sign up for an appointment to shop in person.
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Donating food? How to Get Food to the Cupboard | |
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The Cupboard can receive donated food on:
- Preferred hours: Mondays 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Also: Thursdays noon-5 p.m.
Bring donations to the delivery dock on the side of our facility and ring the doorbell for assistance. Or, give us a call and we can meet you to pick up food from your neighborhood.
If you have food that you want to deliver at other times, you can take it to one of our community drop-off sites listed below. If necessary, we can arrange a time for a pick-up. Please do not leave food outside the Cupboard.
Community Drop-Off Sites
- Bless Your Heart Boutique, 242 S. Main Street, Ste. 106
- Coastal Credit Union, Village Walk Drive
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Coldwell Banker HPW, 5261 Sunset Lake Road
- First Flight Federal Credit Union, Village Walk Drive
- Holly Springs Farmers Market, West Ballentine Street
- Holly Springs Town Hall, Main Street
- Keller Williams Legacy, 1483 Beaver Creek Commons Dr., Apes
- Local Time Brewing, 300 S. Main St., Ste. 204
- Oak Village Academy Holly Springs, 160 Solaris Ln.
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Pet Mania, Sunset Lake Road
- Prana Yoga, 300 S. Main St., Suite 116 in Block on Main
- Sunrise United Methodist Church, 5420 Sunset Lake Road
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SupaBowlz Cafe, 150 W Holly Springs Road
- The Block on Main, Corner of Main Street and Rogers Street
- Triangle Wine Company, 4204 Lassiter Road
- Wake FC, Ting Park
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Thank you, again, to our dedicated volunteers and generous community for making everything we do possible.
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