The White Pony Express Summer Newsletter is Here!

Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Love in Action

Our new program, Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN), is ready for roll-out! This exciting joint effort between White Pony Express 
and RecycleSmart creates a new platform for community service and food rescue – connecting volunteers with smaller food donations they can personally deliver in real-time.

This program was designed to expand WPE’s ability to pick up and deliver donations from local restaurants, caterers, and cafeterias. Based on a new law in California, SB 1383, these businesses are required to have an edible food collection program in place with a local organization (like WPE!) by 2024. The new regulations provide WPE with an important opportunity to help food producers and distributors across the county and to do so without putting further strain on our current facility...

Neighbors Helping Neighbors Program Partners:
All N One Collaboration
“To be aligned with humanity in love and compassion. This is what our association is about. White Pony Express lovingly fills the needs for food and clothing throughout East County and the Bay Area. All N One and our many partners thank you for all that you do to help us help others.” 

- Delano Johnson
White Pony Express (WPE) has partnered with Bay Point Community All N One since our early days. All N One (ANO) and Delano Johnson, the founder, and president, work with at least eight agencies and faith-based groups serving our neighbors in need. We are fortunate for our partnership and the love we share!


Every week WPE helps ANO meet the community needs by offering clothing and food. Delano has also arranged for the John Muir Health mobile clinic and Pittsburg Bay Church mobile shower unit to provide health and hygiene services. This cross-agency collaboration is the most responsive approach to service – We depend on and join with each other to provide just what’s needed.

Last Saturday we took our partnership to the next level with a special Father’s Day event. This drive-thru celebration honored and offered fathers stylish new clothing, toiletries, shoes, food, sweet confections, and flowers.

We are deeply privileged to have partners like Delano. We take care of each other, we serve the community together, and we give and receive gifts of love through our brother- and sisterhood.

All of us taking care of all of us!
White Pony Express Welcomes Merry Dempsey: Powerhouse and Change Leader!

White Pony Express (WPE) has hired a Chief Operations Officer and we couldn’t feel more pumped or privileged! Merry is passionate about our work and serving the community. She has extensive experience in strategy, corporate finance, recruiting, development, and management.

Merry’s collaborative spirit and energy will help WPE build a sturdy foundation in order to connect the abundance and the need. Together we welcome this new life chapter where we all help each other as one family.
Merry will focus on four of WPE’s key strategic objectives:

  1. Program development, including the launch of Neighbor Helping Neighbors.
  2. Financial management and accounting.
  3. Integrated data systems and improved technology.
  4. Model replication and organizational growth.
Love Knows and Does All
California's Chief Service Officer, Josh Fryday

On May 1st, White Pony Express (WPE) celebrated a major milestone: delivering 15 million pounds of fresh, nutritious food to neighbors in need across Contra Costa County. We celebrated by hosting a drive-thru giveaway that served over 400 families – with love! The event took place in Concord at Mount Diablo High School, which proved to be the perfect location for filling cars with free food, clothing, board games, sweets, and flowers; along with live music and ribbon dancing under balloon chandeliers! We also applauded WPE’s beloved 400+ volunteers who make the magic happen 364 days a year...