Our Needs
New Truck
We need to replace our refrigerated food delivery truck in 2012. The truck we have is older and is becoming less reliable and more expensive to maintain. We've also outgrown it's capacity. This truck is needed both to transport donated food to the Food Bank and to distribute food to other smaller food banks and pantries and to soup kitchens throughout Mendocino County. It is essential to our operation. We are looking at a 26,000 lb GVWR bobtail truck with a 16' to 18' box with refrigeration.
Letter from Board President, Dan Fowler, Feb 2012
TRUCK UPDATE (2/22/12): The urgency of this need has just increased! Our old refrigerated truck has been grounded by our mechanic as unsafe. It would take over $4,000 to repair it. As we are nearing the finish line of our new truck project, we are hesitant to sink this much money into the old vehicle for just a few months of use. We are committed to buying the new truck which will cost $105,000 (out-thedoor). At this time we have $90,000 in our Truck Replacment fund and need to raise an additional $15,000.
TRUCK UPDATE (3/23/12): Hooray! We have met our goal of raising $15,000 for the truck, thanks to the incredible generosity of our community. We can move ahead with the truck purchase!
Healthy Foods
We are always striving to improve the over-all nutritional value of the food we distribute to our clients. Right now we're especially interested in obtaining funding to increase the amount of milk and other dairy foods we make available to our clients, particularly to those client households with children. We'd also like to be able to consistently offer brown rice and dried beans as a simple nutritious staple foods every week.
Grocery Bags
Please bring us your used paper and plastic grocery bags.
This saves money for our food budget and helps the environment too!
This is a great learning project for a school classroom or scout troop. Kids learn about organizing a project, charitable giving and caring for the environment.
Also, it's a natural for any people who meet on a regular basis to collectively gather and contribute bags to the Food Bank - bags that they would otherwise discard. Perfect for the workplace, neighborhood, church, book club, sports team, community choir, or extended family.
