Hello Folks!

We are aware with continual increases of neighbors attending our distributions, that our community is feeling the impact of inflation, energy costs, and other general cost of living increases in our region now more than ever.

PFB is also experiencing the same impact. We rely on grants and donations to support our operation. Unfortunately, this year has presented challenges with some well-funded grants completely going away, and individual donors are contributing less. Again, it is evident that many families are navigating the challenges of soaring living expenses.

It is important that we are open with you about our current financial situation and the steps that we are taking to strengthen our financial position – all with the intent to offer a robust array of services for our neighbors in the future.

Our teams across the organization are working together to adjust our fund development and purchasing strategies, while actively exploring new fundraising and food sourcing avenues. Our goal, despite reductions in our operating budget impacting our food purchasing power, is to continue with providing free food assistance at our PantryToGo distributions, schools, senior communities, and our partner agencies.

You may know that we purchase all the non-perishable food items that we distribute at our ten (10) PantryToGo sites because the volume of food needed is greater than any donated product that we receive from our retail partners. By purchasing products, we have more control with scheduling the distribution of the product rather than waiting to see when a retail donation arrives.

With our current budget challenges, we are no longer able to purchase this product going into the new fiscal year. Once our current inventory runs out in about six to eight weeks,

we will no longer have the boxed meal kits available at our distributions.

At PantryToGo distributions, we will still offer a variety of fresh produce, donated retail bread and baked goods, Starbucks items through their FoodShare program, and possibly one-off large-scale donations of non-perishable items that we receive from some of our wholesale partners.

Our school and senior programs will continue to receive non-perishable foods, as those programs receive funding from other sources and will remain intact for this fiscal year.

We are planning to host an open forum for our volunteers in two weeks where you can share your questions, concerns, ideas, and other feedback with our team. Please RSVP here so we know how many people to expect. We will do our best to provide answers and insights into the budget decision-making process and our next steps. You may also submit questions or ideas anonymously in advance via this link.

We will share a post-forum summary for those who are unable to attend. We hope to see you there!

June 2024 Recap:

Produce bags packed: 23,109 bags

Meal Kits distributed: 4,380

Total volunteer hours: 1,908 hours

Individual volunteers: 374 people

Cameron Park:

228 households

666 individuals

This time last year, we served 146 households and 463 individuals.

Pollock Pines:

227 households

638 individuals

This time last year, we served 247 households and 626 individuals.

Sheridan:

273 households

797 individuals

This time last year, we served 227 households and 661 individuals.

Georgetown:

125 households

410 individuals

This time last year, we served 89 households and 243 individuals.

Foresthill:

192 households

This time last year, we served 191 households and 512 individuals.

Roseville:

811 households

2,612 individuals

This time last year, we served 730 households and 2,371 individuals.

Placerville:

384 households

1,075 individuals

This time last year, we served 341 households and 980 individuals.

Colfax:

189 households

493 individuals

This time last year, we served 160 households and 441 individuals.

Lincoln:

493 households

1,530 individuals

This time last year, we served 354 households and 1,114 individuals.

Rocklin:

622 households

This time last year, we served 613 households and 1,863 individuals.

FY 2023-2024 Recap:

Produce bags packed: 267,763 bags

Meal Kits packed: 56,610 boxes

Individual volunteers: 2,300 people

Total volunteer hours: 24,500 hours

Value of volunteer hours: $931,000

Pounds of food YOU distributed at PTG: 1,588,043

One note about the numbers below - we do not currently track the number of unduplicated households or individuals that attend our distributions. This is changing in the new fiscal year, through our Service Insights initiative. However, the numbers below represent "instances of service" or how many total times we gave food to every household or person that attended our distributions, including all repeat attendees. This can make the numbers look artificially high, if we're reading them as the number of unduplicated or unique households that picked up, regardless of how many times they came during the year.

Cameron Park:

2,884 households

9,108 individuals

Pollock Pines:

3,004 households

8,142 individuals

Sheridan:

3,188 households

9,795 individuals

Georgetown:

1,318 households

3,096 individuals

Foresthill:

2,203 households

6,194 individuals

Roseville:

9,546 households

30,455 individuals

Placerville:

4,867 households

13,857 individuals

Colfax:

1,739 households

4,594 individuals

Lincoln:

5,669 households

17,743 individuals

Rocklin:

7,079 households

21,879 individuals

Volunteer Spotlight:

Lovingly compiled by Jeremy + Heidi

With gratitude and best wishes,

Heidi, Grace, Jeremy, Shatonia, Katie, and Johnny

If you ever feel inclined and able to make a financial donation,

click here to view our online donation website.

Please know that the last thing we want is to make volunteers to feel pressured to donate money, because you are already so generous with your time. We so appreciate your gift of time and spirit, so please don't ever worry that it's not enough on its own.