The Monthly Morsel

Recap of May 2024

Announcements and Updates:

Share Your Volunteer Story!

Our Development staff is looking for volunteers willing to share their volunteer story and how they came to love PFB as part of a fundraising effort to help us keep up with the increased food insecurity we've seen in recent months. If you'd be willing to share your volunteer story with our Development team to help spread the word about PFB, please click here to email Grace for more info. It would entail a brief interview with our Philanthropy Manager in whatever medium you're most comfortable! No photos or videos required :)

Raley's Food for Families

Did you know that we partner with the Raley's Food for Families program? Every dollar donated at the register at a Raley's or Bel Air store within our three-county service area helps support Placer Food Bank! We use the donated funds to purchase wholesale food items like rice, beans, pasta, canned fruits and veggies, and more through the Raley's distribution network at a very generous discount. Help us spread the word about this amazing program! You can also thank the folks at your local store for supporting this program!

May 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:

252 households

738 individuals

This time last year, we served 160 households and 507 individuals.

Pollock Pines:

271 Households

This time last year, we served 313 households and 908 individuals.

Sheridan:

Data TBD!

This time last year, we served 248 households and 764 individuals.

Georgetown:

109 households

263 individuals

This time last year, we served 152 households and 503 individuals.

Foresthill:

146 households

This time last year, we served 216 households and 593 individuals.

Roseville:

880 households

2,780 individuals

This time last year, we served 894 households and 2,920 individuals.

Placerville:

426 households

This time last year, we served 313 households and 908 individuals.

Colfax:

137 households

382 individuals

This time last year, we served 146 households and 370 individuals.

Lincoln:

509 households

1,548 individuals

This time last year, we served 423 households and 1327 individuals.

Rocklin:

497 households

This time last year, we served 587 households and 1,852 individuals.

Volunteer Spotlight:

Lovingly compiled by Jeremy + Heidi

Paige and Kathy C.

How did you hear about Placer Food Bank? We’ve always wanted to volunteer together, and Placer Food Bank was first on our list. The staff and volunteers here are wonderful and we love the mission of the food bank.

Favorite volunteer opportunity at Placer Food Bank? Paige likes sorting, produce party and meal kit packing, anywhere where there are friends to talk to :) Kathy favorite is Sorting Superstars and running across that occasional/unusual food item that she's never seen in the grocery store before ;). They both look forward to venturing out and trying new volunteer opportunities with the food bank this summer.

Favorite food? Paige is a big pizza and hot dog fan. Kathy loves Thai food, and chocolate, especially See’s candy.

Favorite books? Shows? Movies? Paige’s favorite book is Little Women. She is also a big Sonic, Mario and Disney fan. Paige also loves playing with her two Boston Terriers, Stella and Scarlet. Kathy loves listening to music and has recently been going down a 80’s & 90’s cover band rabbit holes.

Hobbies? Hidden Talents? Paige participates in Special Olympics and competes in a variety of sports and most recently has taken up Bocce Ball. Paige loves playing the piano and ukulele. She loves to make videos for her YouTube channel. She also enjoys drawing, singing and dancing and is never shy when it comes to karaoke. Kathy enjoys hanging out with family and friends, hiking, kayaking, working in the yard and enjoying nature.

If you could be any animal in the world, what animal would you be? Paige and Kathy both pick a Dolphin because they always seem to be having fun and we love the ocean.

Quick Quack Car Wash

On May 30^th employees of the Quick Quack Car Wash Service Center (the corporate office located in Roseville that includes HR, Accounting, Development, etc.) returned to PFB for the third time to volunteer at the warehouse. This time they were put to work packing meal kits with non-perishable food items bound for seniors in our Senior Program (approximately 420 seniors participate currently) and for each household that passes through one of our mobile food distributions, also known as Pantry To Go (approximately 3,500 households participated in May). Quick Quack’s mission is to change lives for the better and the staff love opportunities to serve our community which is exactly what they did with us last month. Thanks Quick Quack!

June Birthdays

Happy birthday to all of our volunteers born this coming month!

Be sure to wish these folks a happy birthday if you see them this month:

Ken S

Bob L

Kathy B

Faye M

Justin M

Suzanne T

Toni G

Theresa M

Craig T

June 1

June 3

June 4

June 5

June 7

June 9

June 10

Maria G

Sally R

Susan B

Tiffany H

Rebekah M

Julie C

John R

Aryc K

Candy M

June 11

June 12

June 13

June 17

June 18

June 19

June 20

June 23

June 27

With gratitude and best wishes,

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

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All feedback helps us keep growing and improving the volunteer program. Thanks!

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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.