DECEMBER 2021

ELVES VISIT FOR GIVING TUESDAY!!

Giving Tuesday is a global movement to inspire giving around the world. Thank you to those that participated in our Giving Tuesday fundraiser & for helping us change lives right here in your own backyard. Feed the need sends food home with over 800 Putnam County students every single week. That's 29,000 bags of food!! That's over $288,000 worth of food for the entire year!! With your continued help, we aim to send home as much food as possible. With the price of food & goods skyrocketing across the United States now it is more important than ever to have the ability to provide food to children in need. We truly appreciate this commUNITY & the tremendous amount of love & support we continue to receive. Thank you to everyone who donated, shared or liked our Facebook posts and those who donated individually.

PCSD EMPLOYEE HOLLY JOLLY JELLY DRIVE!!

PCSD Employees hosted their very own Jelly Drive to try to raise their goal of 250 jars of Jelly. PCSD Employees & FTN Board Members Renee Hough, Becci Motes & Justin Campbell pose in front of the jelly tree created to display their donations. We truly appreciate everyone who has donated to the Holly Jolly Jelly Drive at PCSD!! PCSD Employees make a difference in the lives of Putnam County Students & we couldn't be more grateful for all they do to help Feed the Need. Thank You PCSD!!

SOUTH STATE BANK GIVES BACK!!

For Giving Tuesday this year, South State Bank joined in the global day of giving with a donation to Feed the Need. We are so incredibly grateful to have South State Bank as part of the Feed the Need Family. With the increase in price of goods, astronomical fuel prices, quantity limits on bulk food purchases, food shortages & inevitable hyper inflation Feed the Need is dependent now more than ever on monetary & tangible donations to get us through. We are so incredibly grateful for businesses like South State Bank that give back to their commUNITY!!

Pictured left to right: Board members Jackie Porter and Leota Wilkinson, SouthState Bank Branch Manager Nikki Feagin & SouthState Bank Associate Jennifer Paul

EXCEL ROCKS OUT THE WAREHOUSE!!

All 4 of Putnam County’s JR- Sr High schools Excel Program students over 40 plus teens came to the FTN warehouse last week to sort and make toiletry bags to send home to students this week , Excel stands for; Experience, Community, Employability, Leadership. It is a program that partners with local businesses to get teens involved on a work job shadowing program . Excel students participate with Feed the Need of Putnam County as teen ambassadors to the program helping build food awareness within our community. Palatka Jr/Sr High Lori McCarthy Michele Parnell and Lenora Earls , Crescent City Jr/Sr High Veronica Glover and Tim ORawe, QI Roberts Jr/Sr High Detra Evans and Interlachen Jr/Sr High Katie Hess along with program coordinator Rebecca Motes. I’m sending you a big shout out and thank you for bringing the youth to help with this project. Thank you Diana Jones for coming to keep the teens on track. The bags included shampoos, toothpaste and brushes, soaps , hand sanitizer, brushes , body washes , deodorant and miscellaneous items collected on the drive. Thank you to all who donated to this toiletry drive

BUY A TREE CHANGE A LIFE!!

Open Door Church of God held a fundraiser to benefit nonprofits. At Buy A Tree Change A Life, if you had bought a Christmas tree, Feed the Need was the local nonprofit chosen to donate to. What a spectacular way to spread the spirit of giving & Christmas cheer this season. We truly appreciate Pastor Steve Burkowske for including Feed the Need in this fundraiser. We truly couldn't do this without this amazing commUNITY!!

Pictured: Pastor Steve Burkowske - Open Door Church of God & Executive Director Denise Bramlitt- Feed the Need of Putnam County

BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT!!

Feed The Need of Putnam County proudly introduces our board member Rebecca "Becci" Motes. There are not enough words to say how many hours Becci puts into feeding children in Putnam County each week. Becci is the Secretary on the Board for Feed the Need. Becci has a passion for helping children to grow and blossom into hardworking young adults, which is why she is the perfect person to be in charge of our teen ambassador program. She is always finding creative ways for students to spread awareness. Becci radiates positivity in all that she does & that attitude reflects in her classroom & students. We are so incredibly grateful to have Becci as part of the FTN family. Thank you Becci for all you do, you are greatly appreciated.

WE LOVE OUR VOLUNTEERS!!

Feed the Need of Putnam County is so grateful to have the very best volunteers in the whole wide world. We truly appreciate everything you all do & how hard all of you work to make Putnam County a better place. We could not do what we do without the love & support of our volunteers. Thank You so much to all of our AMAZING volunteers this year and we are always looking to add to our volunteer family. If you are interested in becoming involved, contact us through the information below!

Feed The Need of Putnam County, Inc.

(A 501-C Nonprofit Organization)

Phone: 386-937-3862

Mailing Address: PO Box 1321, Palatka, FL 32178

Food Donation Drop Off: 110 N State Rd 19, Palatka, FL 32177

Email: feedtheneedputnam@yahoo.com

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