'Care for Share' Thank Yous
Each year, dozens of school groups, faith-based groups, local businesses and individuals donate their time to Share by organizing donation drives for Share. They collect non-perishable food items, new and gently-used clothing, personal hygiene items, toys for children and other items needed by our clients.
We’d like to say a special thank you to all of those groups and individuals, as their service to Share truly makes a difference in the daily lives of men, women and children in our community.
Thank You!
Unitus Community Credit Union for donating 70 hygiene/warming kits to Share’s Outreach Program! The kits will be handed out to clients during the annual Point in Time (PIT) Count (Jan. 26) which counts those people who are living on the street. The kits were donated as part of Unitus’ 75th Anniversary Random Acts of Kindness Campaign.
Unitus Community Credit Union for their 2011 Holiday Supply Drive. For each new checking & savings account opened at their Mill Plain Crossing branch location, Unitus CCU donated $5 to support Share. We were thrilled to hear that, as a result of the drive, Unitus will be donating $860.00 to Share.
Juliano’s Pizzeria’s Christmas Tree donation drive in Dec. raised $335 for Share.
Touch of Class Community Choir for their Dec. 17 evening concert at St. Andrew Lutheran Church to benefit WHO; half the proceeds from the concert – approx. $250 – will be donated to WHO.
Mike Reser from Reser’s Fine Foods truly came through for Share this Thanksgiving. This year (their 4th year of donating) Reser’s donated enough food to fill the supplemental food boxes for our Backpack families, plus an additional 452 FULL food boxes (complete with turkey) for ASPIRE clients, for a total of 1,952 food boxes. The total value of the donation? $13,425 – Wow! Thank you so much!
Students at Union High School were in the giving spirit for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Junior Class Council assembled 100 Thanksgiving Meal Kits and several dozen partial meals for Share. They also collected gift cards and cash totalling $1,600! Great work!
Whole Foods Market – Mill Plain’s Taste of Thanksgiving event was a tremendous success! 243 passports were sold totaling $2,732 raised for Share. Thank you to everyone who attended the event, as well as the Mill Plain Team members who both worked and helped prepare for the evening.
Sleep Country Amphitheater’s ‘Share Food for Tickets’ Drive on Aug. 10 received an incredible response from the community: 14,000 lbs. of food was donated, as well as $2,300. That $48,000 worth of food that did not need to be purchased and which will make nutritious meals for Share clients.
Beaches Cruisin’
Thank you to the sponsors, organizers, car lovers and ticket buyers of Beaches Summertime Cruisin’s. This year, event organizers donated $110,000 to help kids – including $10,000 to Share’s Backpack Program!
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