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Community Newsletter
August, 2018
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Keeping you up to date on the many ways Beverly Bootstraps provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency.
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The need is rising and we need your help more than ever.
If you had visited our Food Pantry last month, you would have noticed it was extra bustling with more clients than usual shopping for the food they so desperately need. That is because we had an all time high of 844 pantry visits in July. This surpasses our previous 2012 record which also included Thanksgiving meal distribution. Our numbers have been rising for the past year and unfortunately this is not a good thing and aligns with nationwide data that shows an increase in food insecurity.
FRAC's How Hungry is America? report shows a rise in 2017 in the national Food Hardship rate for the first time since 2013. This rise is significant. After the height of the recession, as the economy continued to recover, tens of millions of Americans still were being left behind by the failure of the economy to provide family-supporting wages.
The nation's unemployment rate continued to fall in 2017, but wages were largely stagnant, and safety net supports were cut. The resulting inability of people to consistently afford enough food for their household ultimately harms children, working-age adults, people with disabilities, and seniors. It harms health, learning, and productivity; and it drives up health care and other costs for families, employers, and government.
Locally, with your support, we will continue to serve our growing number of clients, but we need your help more than ever to be able to meet the increased need.
Read the full report
here.
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Exciting News:
Save the Date for Boots & Blooms Gala 2019
Mark your calendar for Friday, April 5, 2019, at 6:30pm!
Join us for the Boots & Blooms Gala 2019 at Cruiseport Gloucester, 6 Rowe Square in Gloucester for a wonderful evening of cocktails, dining, bidding and dancing. Help support families in need and give hunger the boot!
More info to come soon but if you'd like to get involved behind the scenes of this event, as a sponsor committee member, as a table host, or as a sponsor, please contact Heather Johnston at hjohnston@beverlybootstraps.org or 978-927-1561.
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How you can help:
Healthy kids snacks needed
Next time you're at the grocery store won't you consider picking up some of the items below to be sure kids in need have a little extra over the summer.
Or volunteer to purchase and fill 50 snack bags to teach your kids about giving back thru our Summer Family Volunteer Opportunity - read flyer
here.
Granola bars
Peanut butter crackers
Cheese crackers
Goldfish crackers
Pretzels
Annie's gummy fruit snacks
100%-real-fruit fruit leather
Trail/nut mix
Dried fruit (raisins, craisins, etc.)
**All items individually packaged and in single serve packs please**
Hope is believing things can change.
When you
join the Circle of Hope, your automatic monthly recurring gift will provide a steady flow of hope to our clients all year long.
Please join the Circle of Hope, because with hope, everything is possible! Just click
here to get started.
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Thank you!
Peas from the Pe'ah Garden
Thank you to Temple B'nai Abraham for donating some delicious and nutritious vegetables from their garden to our Food Pantry!
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Veggies from the public schools
Green City Growers, who teaches Beverly Elementary School students about gardening, harvested all the school's gardens this summer and generously donated the produce to us. Thank you.
Shore Country Day School's garden harvest
And representatives from Shore Country Day School also donated some beautiful vegetables from their school garden that we and our Food Pantry clients are very grateful for.
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Happenings
Market Basket Food Drive
Saturday, September 15, 9:00am- 1:00pm
Market Basket, Endicott Street, Danvers
Beverly Bootstraps will be hosting a Food Drive at Market Basket in Danvers. Be sure to come by and support Beverly Bootstraps by helping to fill our Food Pantry shelves!
Join the 3rd annual photo scavenger hunt, all throughout downtown Beverly, to benefit Beverly Bootstraps. Register your team of 4-6 people, meet at The Castle at 2:30pm, and start hunting and taking photos at 3:00pm. You'll head all over downtown Beverly on foot. Registration coming soon!. Cost is $50 per team.
Dining for Beverly Bootstraps at Chipotle
Tuesday, September 25 from 4:00pm -8:00pm
North Beverly Plaza, 55 Doge Street, Beverly
Who wants to cook while you're trying to get used to your new fall schedule - stop by Chipotle and you don't have to! You'll also be donating to Beverly Bootstraps at the same time. 33% of your purchase price will be donated to us! Just bring
this flyer (printed or on your phone) or mention the fundraiser to support Beverly Bootstraps when checking out.
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To learn more, click on these handy links:
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Beverly Bootstraps | 35 Park Street, Beverly, MA 01915 | 978-927-1561
BeverlyBootstraps.org
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