Holiday project update:
Please donate grocery gift cards

All of the 106 families (with 233 children) who registered for our Christmas Hope project have been adopted!

If you still want to help with the Christmas project, please consider donating gift cards in any denomination from Wegmans, Aldi or Walmart. We have a record 118 households without children under 18 seeking Christmas assistance, and they receive a gift card for food. Many of these households have elderly or disabled members.

Hope’s Thanksgiving project, done in collaboration with Webster Community Chest and A Gathering Place, served 275 people. Volunteers spent the afternoon of Monday Nov. 17 sorting donations and bagging the packages for recipients, who came to collect them on Tuesday Nov. 18.

Many thanks to all donors and volunteers. Photos of the volunteers at work can be found on the Holiday Projects page of the website.

Services

Current Critical Needs

Holiday bounty comes to Hope

Hope finds itself in the fortunate position this year of being able to do more than usual for its recipients around the holidays.

That’s because an unusually large outpouring of community generosity has left Hope’s pantry filled to the brim.

The extra allows us to do things such as provide bonus items, while they last, for many households on top of their usual allowances. A new “bonus board” lists the items; in a recent week it had such things as a whole chicken and extra diapers and baby wipes for those who need them.

Even the Christmas Shop – where families can get things such as gift wrap, Christmas cards and some small gifts – is better-stocked than usual.

Hope’s staff and volunteers are extremely grateful for the ability to do more for recipients, because the community stepped up and did more with its donations of food, household items, and monetary support.

The “bonus board” describing extra items Hope has available.