Money, time, food, or a voice people listen to — this place runs on all four. Tell us
what you've got and how helping fits your life, and we'll hand you
one concrete next step, not a brochure.
Your answers stay on this device.
Your fit
Here's your next step
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Make a one-time gift
The fastest way to help is also the most flexible: dollars buy exactly what the warehouse is short on this week. $1 helps provide about 3 meals.
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Pick an amount — $25 covers a week of dinners for two families
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Check out in under a minute (it's a demo — no card is charged)
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Get a receipt and see exactly what your gift becomes
Team campaigns with an employer match routinely double their impact. We'll give you a meal-math thermometer, posters, and a Friday sort shift to celebrate the finish.
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Tell us your team size and timeline
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We set up a campaign page and a matching pledge
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Close it out with a group sorting shift at the warehouse
No training, no commitment, no problem. A two-hour warehouse shift sorts roughly 900 lbs of rescued groceries — about 750 meals — and it's genuinely fun.
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Pick any open shift on the volunteer calendar
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Show up in closed-toe shoes; we handle the rest
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Leave knowing exactly how many boxes your crew filled
Our regulars are the backbone: pantry hosts, market crew, pack assemblers. Same shift, same crew, every week — most regulars say it's the best hours of their week.
Bring 4–16 people and we'll give you the warehouse floor: a private sorting line, a friendly production target, and bragging rights on the big chalkboard.
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Pick a weekday morning or afternoon block
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We assign a crew lead and set your meal target
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Sort, weigh, celebrate — most groups beat their target
Some of our most important volunteering happens by phone: weekly check-in calls to seniors on our delivery routes, plus translation help for pantry materials.
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Tell us your languages and free hours
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Do a 30-minute remote orientation call
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Get a short weekly call list — most crews spend about an hour
One grocery run, done well, beats a trunk full of mystery cans. Our most-needed list is short, cheap, and exactly what the shelves are missing this month.
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Grab the most-needed list below
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Shop it on your next grocery run
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Drop it at the warehouse dock, Mon–Sat 8am–6pm — no appointment
Gardeners plant one extra row for the pantry network; bakers and farms set a standing weekly donation. Fresh, local, and planned-for beats surplus every time.
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Tell us what you grow, bake, or stock
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We match you to the nearest pantry or the market truck
A good food drive is a kit, not chaos: printed lists, labeled bins, a weigh-in, and a real number at the end. We'll set your block, office, or school up properly.
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Request a drive kit with bins, posters, and the most-needed list
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Run it for one or two weeks
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We weigh it in and send your group its meal count
The quietest habit in hunger relief: one extra item from the most-needed list in your cart every week, dropped in the donation bin at any partner grocer.
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Save the most-needed list to your phone
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Add one item on every grocery run
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Drop it in the Riverbend bin by the exit at partner stores
Most people picture hunger as someone else, somewhere else. One honest share — the real numbers, the real faces — moves more neighbors than any poster we could print.
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Read the who-we-help page — five stats, five myths
A small crew that speaks up all year: letters to council when pantry funding is on the docket, school-board comments for breakfast programs, honest talk at town halls.
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Join the monthly advocates email
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Get one concrete ask per month — a letter, a call, a meeting
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Track what changed at the annual Harvest Dinner
A 30-minute talk for workplaces, classes, and congregations: how hunger actually works in this region, what the myths get wrong, and what a group can do next.
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Pick a date and tell us your audience
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A staff member or trained advocate presents — in person or on a call
Decisions about school meals, transit to grocery stores, and pantry funding get made by people who count letters. Our kit makes yours take ten minutes and land well.
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Download this season's letter kit from the advocates email
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Personalize the two sentences that matter — your street, your reason