Share and share alike

As I travel around promoting Foodshare's Turkey and Thirty campaign, I often find people don't realize that the local food pantries and community kitchens get their food, including their turkeys, from Foodshare.  In fact, our goal of 19,000 turkeys is the sum of all the requests from local food pantries across the region.

Yesterday, at one of my stops someone told me that she always gives one turkey to Foodshare and one to the local pantry in the town where she lives.  She was very surprised to hear that Foodshare gives some of the turkeys we receive to that local pantry!

We know the local pantries receive many donations directly and we always ask them to let us know that and to take that many fewer from Foodshare to make sure there are enough to go around.

This morning, I learned that the Windsor Food Bank received turkeys from Foodshare last week and already gave them out to the families who needed them.  Then over the weekend, there was another big drive for the Windsor Food Bank, but they don't need the turkeys and they are delivering them to Foodshare this morning so that we can share them with another program that still does not have enough.  Windsor EMS delivered the 96 extra turkeys that were above and beyond what was needed in Windsor. 

Not only was the Windsor Food Bank collaborating with Foodshare, their drive at the Windsor Stop & Shop was a join effort of the food pantries in Windsor, Windsor Locks and East Granby!

Thank you to everyone who has donated and to those local programs who are willing to share with others that may not have been so fortunate!