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DONATE A FROZEN TURKEY OR CONTRIBUTE JUST $30* PER TURKEY.

In past years, we’ve been able to purchase low-cost turkeys from the Vermont Food Bank. This year, that is not an option. We and your neighbors need your help for the Holidays.

To donate a FROZEN TURKEY, please drop it off at the Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 West Allen Street, on Tuesdays (9-11:00 am). Those dates for November and December are 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9 or 12/16.

Or during our Special Holiday Hours: Wednesdays (12-3:00 pm) on and Saturdays (9-11:00 am). The Wednesday dates in November and December are 11/5, 11/12, 12/3 and 12/10 . The Saturday dates are 11/1, 11/15, 12/6, or 12/20.

To donate online, please go www.winooskifoodshelf.org. Or send a check to the Winooski Food Shelf c/o The United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 53, 24 West Allen Street, Winooski, Vermont 05404. For more information, please email winooskifoodshelf@gmail.com or call 802-655-7371.

With food prices rising and government support dwindling, we need your help more than ever. In September, we served the largest number of Winooski Households in the last 12 months! And numbers are expected to rise.

*$45 with all the fixins!

Volunteering at the Winooski Food Shelf is a richly rewarding experience. Our volunteers range from high school to college students, executives to retirees, school teachers to electricians, and everyone in between. Because we have a set schedule, it is easy to designate a specific time and day of the week to volunteer. Please see "Who We Are" for information on our activities. Just call 802-655-7371, leave a message, and someone will return your call. We can also be reached by email at winooskifoodshelf@gmail.com.

Affiliation with the United Methodist Church of Winooski is not required.

Urgent Need Volunteers are needed to help every Tuesday at 9 am to help unload, move goods inside and shelve them, as well to assist in the recycling of packaging materials. Drivers need to pick up goods in Montpelier at the Vermont Food Bank and at local grocery stores.

HOW & WHAT TO DROP OFF

Please do not leave food on our doorstep when we are closed. Instead, bring UNEXPIRED and UNOPENED food and toiletry during the times we are open or on Tuesdays from 9 to 11 am.

SORRY, WE DO NOT ACCEPT CLOTHING OR HOUSEHOLD ITEMS.

LOOKING FOR NEW DROP-OFF LOCATIONS We desperately need new drop off locations, particularly retailers in downtown Winooski. If you can accept food donations at your store or business, we will pick them up if necessary. Just contact us and someone will stop by. Thank you for caring about your neighbors.

Volunteer Registration Form

12 Ways to Help

Appeal for Drivers & Shoppers

Our Holiday Fixin's Bag

This Holiday Season, please help feed your neighbors

Volunteering

I love this place. I haven't had to use a food shelf for a while but when I had to, they were sweet and un-judging. they didn't care that we were there; they cared that I needed their help, and they did. A lot!! Thank you!!

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- Guest, January 5, 2019

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what to contribute

Donating is easy and welcome at all times not just the holidays. And it's not just food. In January, we focus on dental hygiene, so we're looking for toothbrushes, tooth paste, floss, as well as other toiletries.

We have a continuing, critical shortage of Baby Care Products--diapers, formula, baby food, wipes, and toiletries. Cat and dog food is needed almost every month. After the holidays and the end of summer/early fall leave us with shortages almost every year. As the need has grown, so has our need for funds and groceries.

You can help out by sending a tax-deductible check made out to the Winooski Food Shelf c/o The United Methodist Church of Winooski, 24 West Allen Street, Winooski, VT 05404.

For a List of Food Items to donate to Food Banks and Pantries

Best Foods to Donate

how to set up a food drive or fundraiser

A number of local businesses contribute to the Food Shelf on a regular basis, holding food drives on an ongoing basis or special drives during the Holidays. For help setting up a Food Drive, please contact Linda Howe, director, at 802-655-7371 and leave a message.

For info on how to run a food drive

How to Run a Food Drive

thank you to our partners

the vermont food bank

Nearly 50% of the food we share comes from the Vermont Food Bank. From them, we receive donated food items as well as the opportunity to purchase food at heavily discounted rates through their various programs. For more on the Vermont Food Bank