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Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc.

The Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization designed to meet a variety of needs for families and individuals in the Town of Irondequoit, NY.

Mission Statement

“To provide emergency assistance to Irondequoit residents with dignity, kindness and without prejudice.”

Vision

"To raise awareness of the presence and impact of hunger and poverty in our community. We envision a community where all people share resources to ensure that residents’ basic needs are met in times of limited resources.

We advocate for and reach out to those in need and try to influence public policy so that every person in our community has the necessary support and resources to enhance nutrition, health and welfare.”

Amazon.com for ICC

This will only take a moment of your time; I know you shop at Amazon, especially for the holidays. You can help the Irondequoit Community Cupboard just by going to www.smile.amazon.com and then type in Irondequoit Community Cupboard You would then continue to shop whatever it was you were shopping for and we get a (small) dollar percentage of your order. So we win for you doing what you were going to do anyway. This would be a great and easy way for you to “Help us Help others” in our community.

For more information you can go to Facebook page for up to date photos and info https://www.facebook.com/Irondequoit-Community-Cupboard-Inc-180196068672489/?fref=ts

If you are in need of assistance, please call (585) 336-9107.
(no appointments are made online)

Distribution Hours (BY APPOINTMENT ONLY)
Tuesday & Saturday from 9:30AM - 11:00AM.

Office Hours (BY PHONE ONLY)
Monday & Wednesday 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Fridays 9:00AM-12:00PM

"Letter from the President"
(February 2018)

Dear Friends,

Can you believe this wind? I hope that everyone is staying safe and warm. I also cannot believe it is almost March. I am currently signing up volunteers for April through June. If you are a current volunteer, PLEASE contact me to confirm your dates for these months. We usually have 4 volunteers on each shift with one working board member. One of these volunteers needs to be able to lift more than 20 pounds to carry items out to the cars. We often get asked if we can use groups to volunteer at ICC; as much as we would like to, it is very difficult because our facility is very small. The gardening season will be starting again and that is a GREAT time to use groups or families to assist ICC.

We are grateful to you, our donors for your continued support. We are beginning to see new clients coming to ICC for assistance from the St Salome apartments right across the street. I imagine we will begin to see a substantial increase in the number of seniors and adults with disabilities than we currently have. We are proud to continue to serve weekend backpacks to 7 Irondequoit elementary schools and we are up to 175 bags PER WEEK! In addition to this, we also provide snacks to the same 7 schools for the month. Currently we are running low on several items (see Top 10 list at the bottom) but we know that with your support we will be able to fill our shelves.

Our annual board meeting is in April and anyone is welcome to come. We are in the process of firming up that date. April is also when United Way kicks off their annual appeal; as a reminder our agency designee number is 2466

Many of you have donated since my last email and I would like to thank you now. Thank you so much to:

Those of you who anonymously drop donations off at the library and Ridge Culver Fire Dept, we are very grateful for your generosity! (As a reminder these are drop off points, not places where people can go through and pick out food that they would like to take)

Laura and Noah Skavienski
Reliant Federal Credit Union
Transfiguration Lutheran
Chris Manos
Paul and Nancy Tese

Irondequoit Lions Club
Summerville Presbyterian Church
United Church of Christ
Richard Stiehler
Amy Garnish and friends and family

Irondequoit Animal Hospital
Toby Berke
St Kateri Bible Study Group

Durand United Church of Christ
Living Water Church
Don and Nancy Story
Rogers Middle School
Brookview School
Sardico Family
The Assisi Institute

Resurrection Lutheran Church
Briarwood School
Bob Schultz
Chris
Michelle Crary
Paul and Tessie

Thank you again to all of you, we are grateful for every single donation we receive. Every dollar and every canned good, taxable item, or shelf stable items. We couldn’t do it without you!
 

Sincerely,

Debbie Evans President and
Executive Director


Lisa Loeser, Chairperson
MaryJo Toepfer, Vice Chairperson
John Kane, Treasurer
Cherie Evans, Secretary

Diane Zaccarine, Corresponding Secretary
Mary Bragg, Board Member
Carolyn DeHond, Board Member