Fort Bragg Food Bank

Thank you to our local US Postal Letter Carriers and to Generous Community Members for the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive which brought us over a ton of much needed food this year.

Thank you to First5 Mendocino for the grant to buy milk for young children.

Thank you to Jill Lydick for the inspired and fun shopping bags made from old T-shirts.

Thank you to Benjamin Abell of Bones Graphics for creating a wonderful new mural for the Food Bank waiting room. 

Thank you to Racine's and Rossi's for donating paint and plywood for our new mural by Benjamin Abell.

Thank you to Frank Langley and the Chico Gleaners for the frequent large deliveries of much needed bread.

Thank you to First5 Mendocino for providing nutrition information, recipes (with samples) and fresh produce featuring - carrots!

Thank you to Cheshire Books for distributing brand new new copies of the book "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave to our clients - courtesy of the World Book Night program.

Thank you to Curves for the March Food Drive which brought in over 1,200 pounds of food.

Thank you to the Bayview Cafe for 944 pounds of food.

Thank you to the Community Foundation of Mendocino County for the $2,500 grant to purchase much needed warehouse equipment.

Thank you to the Cory Letsinger Memorial Frisbee Ice Bowl Tournament for $2,500 and 890 pounds of food.  Wow!  Special appreciation to organizers Derrick Robbings and AJ Buhl.

Thank you to the Fort Bragg Advocate News, especially to Sharon DiMauro, publisher, for printing a series of informative articles about the Food Bank, and to Frank Hartzell for his terrific writing of these articles.

Thank you to Harvest Market for a very successful Buy-A-Turkey-for-the-Food-Bank program this year!

Thank you to the North Coast Artists for donating the proceeds of their lovely handmade Christmas ornament sales to the Food Bank.

Thank you to the Mendocino Knights of Columbus for generously donating the proceeds of their Wine and Mushroom event to us and other non-profit organizations serving our local community.

Thank you to volunteer, Stan Halvorsen who made an appearance as "Stanta" Claus at the Food Bank on December 23.

Thank you to our AWESOME volunteers!  We love you all and  we know darn well there's no way we could do this without you!

Thank you to PG&E for the generous donation.

Thank you to Betty Goldfarb and husband for all the wonderful warm jackets and coats.

Thank you to Diane Harris for the lovely and warm handmade hats.

Thank you to Wells Fargo Bank for a donation of $4,000 which will go toward the purchase of a new delivery truck.

Thank you to the "Do-Gooders" and Little River Inn for donating the proceeds of their annual luncheon.

Thank you to the Fort Bragg Middle School Students for 1,444 pounds of food!

Thank you to the 4H Club for the invitation to come talk about the Food Bank.

Thank you to the Mendocino Grammar School Students for 1,137 pounds of food!

Thank you to Michel Williams for the beautiful hand-knit hats.

Thank you to Nancy Milano, Chief Elf

Thank you to the California Scholarship Federation at Mendocino HS for the cookies, cupcakes and firewood.

Thank you to Jeanne Coleman and Jean Mann for the very thoughtfully put together "socks" of toiletries and gifts for our clients.

Thank you to Bill Mertle of Fort Bragg Electric for a significant contribution toward the cost of our new generator.

Thank you to the Fort Bragg High School Key Club Members for helping with our Thanksgiving food distribution. 

Thank you to the Savings Bank of Mendocino County Employees for holding a Holiday Bake-off to benefit the Fort Bragg Food Bank - and to the Bank itself for matching the employees contribution.

Thank you  to the Cheshire Bookstore and their customers for the children's book drive which provides books for Food Bank family children for the holidays.

Thank you to Tryptophan Dan for struttin' his stuff at Safeway and Harvest Market to encourage folks to Buy-a-Turkey-for-the-Food Bank.

Thank you to Helena for the warm and cuddly homemade hats for Food Bank kids.

Thank you to Sharon DiMauro and the Fort Bragg Advocate News for the annual Season of Sharing campaign.

Thank you to Harvest Market for the "'Buy-A'Turkey" program at their checkout stands.

Thank you to Coastline Produce for donating fresh produce weekly.

Thank you to the James G Cummings Foundation for a very generous donation to the Food Bank.

Thank you to Team Insurance and Financial Services, Mendocino Coast European Auto, Savings Bank of Mendocino County, Richard McDonald Roofing, Sport Dodge Jeep Chrysler and Rick McMillen DDS who provided matching funding for this year's Turkey Challenge.

Thank you to Safeway for the Every Bag Counts food drive which benefits our Food Bank (Nov 16 - Dec 24, 2011). 

tttttHANK a aa bIG Thank you to the North Coast Brewing Company for donating a delicious luncheon for our annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon.

Thank you the the Fort Bragg Presbyterian congregation for the peanut butter and tuna.

Thank you to the Fort Bragg City Staff for helping us secure a CDBG grant for a new walk-in freezer and generator.

Thank you to Lee Welty for donating his time as construction manager for the CDBG freezer and generator project.

Thank you to the Vitamin Case Consumer Settlement Fund for the $90,000 3-year grant (just completed) which allowed us to provide extra-nutritious food to food bank and soup kitchen clients throughout Mendocino County.

Thank you to volunteers Nancy Milano, India Gingell and Maureen James for helping out at the Safeway food drive on Saturday.

Thank you to CVS  Pharmacy for joining our list of local businesses who donate surplus food on a weekly basis.  Last week CVS donated over 250 pounds of food to the Food Bank.

Thank You to Mendocino Coast Clinics for donating a Laser Printer for our offices at the Fort Bragg Food Bank !

Thank You to Betty Stechmeyer who donated the funds to buy our wonderful new fortklift !