Phase I Completed -- Checks Distributed!
After a little more than one week, the generous citizens of Warwick fully met our $5,000 matching fund, and in fact went over the total. We’ll start planning a second phase of fundraising before long. We thank everyone who helped make this fundraising drive a success, and extend more heartfelt thanks to the people behind our local food pantries.
In response to the great need for supporting food pantries during the pandemic, Community2gether and Sustainable Warwick launched the Resilient Warwick Food Pantry Support Fund. We sought donations to the fund and set aside $5,000 to match those contributions.
Click the image below to watch the Food Pantries accept their checks and to learn how they are meeting the new challenges that COVID-19 has brought to their organizations and the families they serve.
On May 14th we distributed checks to the five local food pantries, as shown in the pie chart below. All of these food pantries participate in the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley, which provided data on the number of meals these food pantries typically serve on a monthly basis. Those numbers helped us decide the fairest way to distribute our support to the food pantries.
Phase I of the Resilient Warwick Food Pantry Support Fund is completed, and for the time being we are not matching new donations. If you wish to donate through us to the local food pantries at this time, we will disburse your contribution along with a later fundraising campaign.
Funds were dispersed to five Warwick-area food pantries (based on the number of people they usually serve), as shown in the diagram above.
At this time it is especially important for the food pantries to receive monetary contributions. Social distancing requirements mean food pantries have to be especially careful with donations in kind. Moreover, with monetary contributions they can acquire large amounts of food fairly inexpensively through the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley and other connections.