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Our 2025 Activities Our Drives Next Potluck – February 4th 4PM In the Year 2025! Much was accomplished! Happy New Year! We are looking forward to another great one!  All of you donors donated $131,178.58 in cash over the year, and we distributed $124,702.44  to our partner agencies in 2025 for  over 550 requests  for urgent or emergency assistance!  We and all those clients in need truly appreciate your generosity and big hearts! This does not include all the in-kind donation

Holiday Potluck Winter Food Baskets Teachers’ School Supplies - Take 2 Next Potluck Projects Update Help and Items Needed Update on Funds Received Thanks to Donors Where the Money Went Holiday Potluck Oh What a Night!  The Potluck at Candace and Phil Guldeman’s was a roaring success! The potluck had the highest attendance and the highest donations ever for our home-based potlucks! There were 60 plus people and we raised almost $5,000!    The decorations were out of this world

We filled up the barn with food This year we shared our “horn of plenty” with 220 families – a 20% increase over last year.  Since we canceled our Winter Break food drive, we added some much needed basic food needs to our food list - rice, beans, flour, sugar, cereal, milk, masa and oil. The average price of each Thanksgiving Food Basket this year was about $80 which is equivalent to a total value of $18,000!   Where does one begin to express gratitude at this time of the yea

Thanksgiving Food Drive Potluck Update Projects Update Help and Items Needed Update on Funds Received Thanks to Donors Where the Money Went   Thanksgiving Food Drive News Update:  After receiving some feedback about some donor burnout, we have decided to cancel the December Winter Break Food Drive.  With the huge increase in families needing food this fall, we think that having a second drive so soon after this huge Thanksgiving drive may be stretching all our resources too t

Thanksgiving Food Baskets Next Potluck Thanksgiving Food Baskets Yes! We’re already planning. It’s 6 weeks ‘til we sort, pack and deliver our 7th Annual Thanksgiving Food Baskets! Like so much of what we do for our community neighbors in need, it takes planning and organization. Our Project Leader is the intrepid Kristin Bertsch back for her 5th year! She is also one of our new board members and is very busy wearing many hats. To pull this off we need to jump on it. Her an

Let Me Introduce You To Next Potluck with a Twist Projects Update Help and Items Needed Update on Funds Received Thanks to Donors Where...

Happy School Teachers Next Potluck Laundry Pop-Up Help and Items Needed Happy School Teachers Look at all these happy faces at the eleven...

Teachers’ School Supplies Drive – Success! Next Potluck Projects Update Help and Items Needed Update on Funds Received Thanks to Donors...

At this time of year every year throughout the country there are many organizations collecting and distributing school supplies for...

A wonderful donation from St. Barnabas Church Thrift store and updates on current projects, donations and where the funds went.

We Missed the Bus South SLO County Womenade’s 6th Annual School Supplies Drive for Lucia Mar Teachers July 14 to August 14, 2025 We Love...

Have you heard all the news? It's all right here! Newsletter June 7, 2025 New agencies We welcome two new partner agencies: Family Care...

A High Tea Party - Hats and High Tea! It was an EVENT! Newsletter May 20, 2025 Potluck Hats and High Tea at Trilogy It was a real WOW!...

Help! We Need Somebody... Special Newsletter April 19, 2025 Help! Help! Help! As the Beatles once sang: ( Help! ) I need somebody ( Help!...

April was chocked full of activities! Newsletter April 25, 2025 Update on Potluck and Raffle The Potluck Fundraiser at Ann McDowell’s...

April means Raffle time and Hygiene Products Drive! Newsletter  April 8, 2025 Next Potluck   Please note that it's at 3PM!   The April...

Month end wrap up and all the needs you met Newsletter March 29, 2025 As promised in our last newsletter, here is a newsletter with some...

So much to tell you about! Newsletter March 20, 2025 We have so much to share that we'll send the donor "Thank Yous" and "Where the Money...

Help us fight Hygiene Poverty! No more smelly people :) March 10, 2025 Special Email Edition Our 8th Annual Hygiene Drive April 1 to...

February was a short month but lots got done! Newsletter February 28, 2025 Potluck at Blacklake The potluck fundraiser at Blacklake’s...