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Dear Friend,
When Sam first connected with Friends In Deed, he was living in his van. Even after it broke down, Sam never gave up. He kept showing up and working with Friends In Deed staff to get all his paperwork in place in order to better his circumstances. That perseverance paid off when he was matched into local supportive housing, where he lived for more than two years in a single room with a shared kitchen and bathroom.
But Sam wanted more independence. With support from William on our FID Intensive Case Management Services (ICMS) team, Sam got sober, received a housing voucher, and found a new apartment in Pasadena. This time, it’s a one-bedroom with his own kitchen and bathroom.
Sam shared that he hasn’t lived in an apartment like this in twenty years. Now, he finally has a home of his own.
It’s hard to believe that we are just 2 weeks away from Thanksgiving! At FID, we want to make sure families in our Food Pantry community have the opportunity to sit around their tables with traditional foods of the holiday.
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So, that means Operation Gobbler is here! We have 450 households signed up, so we need your help—turkeys, boxes of stuffing, canned yams, etc. A reminder that we don’t provide any cooked food, so the best way you can help is by donating frozen turkeys, please. You can drop them off this Saturday, and next Friday and Saturday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Finally, we can’t thank you enough for the amazing generosity we have experienced over the past few weeks. We are so grateful for the food drives, Amazon boxes, and monetary contributions. Please watch our short video for the latest update. And, now that the federal government is reopened, SNAP benefits have been reinstated and the most vulnerable can breathe a small sigh of relief. No matter what happens, FID will be here to provide compassion and dignity.
Blessings and have a lovely weekend,
Rabbi Joshua
| | We can only operate with your help! | | | | She’s somewhere behind all those crates, buried under a mountain of generosity...Read more. | | | | O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree | 🎄💚 Support Friends In Deed by ordering your tree from Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. The deadline to order is Sunday, November 16th at 11:59 p.m...Learn more. | | | | When we say this community shows up, we mean it | On Monday, Joshua, Merria, Ryan, and Dani ferried vanloads of food from our Food Pantry to a storage space. The outpouring of support has been absolutely incredible, and we are super grateful for the inundation of donations...Learn more. | | | | We’re gobbling for a good cause! | Operation Gobbler is officially in full swing, and we’re teaming up once again with our friends, the Pasadena Jaycees, to make sure 450 local families have a delicious Thanksgiving meal...Watch now. | | | | On Wednesday, November 19th, join us for the 5th annual State of Friends In Deed Address at 6 p.m...Read more. | | Our Bonfire Shop is Open! | | |
We now have a print-on-demand shop where you can purchase Friends In Deed t-shirts, mugs, and tote bags.
A small portion of the proceeds will go back to Friends In Deed!
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At Friends In Deed, we honor the dignity and privacy of every person we serve. The stories we share are real, but sometimes, we change names or minor details or use stock photos to protect our clients’ identities. Thanks for your compassion, understanding, and support.
Friends In Deed is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We embrace and celebrate the spectrum of our employees’, volunteers’, and clients’ ages, color, ability or disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, neurodiversity, and other characteristics that make our employees, volunteers, and clients unique.
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