Welcome
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.”
United Way
Remember us at United Way giving time we are designee #2466
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
The Irondequoit Town Hall is NOT a drop off point for
donations.
We are grateful for your kind donations but please, utilize one of our
three drop off points if you are not bringing your items to us at ICC.
The 3 drop off points again are:
The Ridge Culver Fire Dept
The Irondequoit Library
The Irondequoit Community Center
Wegmans East Avenue
Grocery Run
If you would like to get a little exercise and have a lot of fun, you
can participate in this years’ Wegmans East Avenue Grocery Run. This is
an annual event and last year we had so much fun! You can come alone,
bring a friend or more, encourage your workplace to join you, get your
family out and about for a couple of hours on a Saturday… All of the
entry fees come straight to us. 😊
Debbie
https://runsignup.com/Races?s=&name=Wegmans+East+Avenue+Grocery+Run+
"Letter from the President"
(November 2026)
Dear Friends,
I CANNOT believe we are into November already with only a couple of
weeks before Thanksgiving. As you can imagine we are extremely busy
right now. Not only do we have more need on a monthly basis, but our
holiday list keeps growing. We have so, so many seniors this year
from the different senior housing apartments we have in Irondequoit.
Our holiday sign ups have now ended
The pickup time Thanksgiving November 19th at ICC
If your last name begins with A-L your pick up time is from 6-7:00pm
If your last name begins with M-Z your pick up time is from 7-8:00pm
Christmas/Special Santa December 17th at ICC.
If your name begins with A-L your pickup time is from 6-7:00pm
If your last name begins with M-Z your pickup time is from 7-8:00pm
We do not care WHO picks up for you, we just want you to be able to
receive your items.
We do not take on new volunteers during the holiday season because
it is so busy but thank you to those of you who have reached out. We
will be accepting volunteers after the new year. I book out 3 months
at a time and will begin the schedule in December for January so
keep an eye out for my December newsletter.
I have posted this on our Facebook page, but I also need to address
this here. Please do not gift us your well-intentioned used items
from a household sale, your home or elsewhere. If you are cleaning
out your home or someone else’s and want to donate the remining
food, PLEASE go through it first. We have been receiving open and
used items. We cannot possibly check every screw top item to see if
they are already used and it is awful to find out someone got a used
jar of peanut butter as an example. I know you mean well but it
takes time we don’t have and extra trips from our volunteer pick up
drivers to pick up items likes bags of clean rags, bathroom
carryalls, toys etc. We throw them out as we cannot use them.
Please do not leave perishable items at our drop off points. The
places that graciously allow us to utilize their space do not want
to attract mice and we do not want food to go bad. We have received
meat and frozen items at these drop off points.
Now that it is getting cold out this serves as a reminder that we
cannot take in food that has been left outside. If canned items
freeze and then thaw, air can get in and this can cause disease. Dry
goods that freeze and thaw create wet and unsafe conditions for
those items. Again, we know you are trying to help but it makes us
feel awful when we have to throw food out and when it comes to
household items we do not have room in our garbage totes. Thank you
so much for your attention to this.
For those of you who are anxiously waiting for the Special Santa
list, I am typing this up today 😊
Thank you so much to our AMAZING garden crew!! This season we were
able to distribute 1,227 pounds of fresh herbs and produce. It is a
lot of work to plan, thank you so much to Anne Rowley who
coordinates this beautiful program especially this year when produce
has been so expensive.
We also received 264 pounds of produce from the Cornell Co-op, 1,461
pounds of produce (mostly cabbage) 115 pounds of fresh zucchini from
Terry Fox aka “Farmer Fox, and 66 pounds of produce from local
garden of our neighbors. Fresh produce is such a treat and so much
more healthy than canned vegetables. We are beyond grateful to be
able to share all of this with our guests and they LOVE it. So,
thank you again to all of you.
Thank you so much to all of you who donated items during the month
of October, we appreciate it.
For those of you asking what we need for the holidays we are pretty
set on Thanksgiving since it has to be planned ahead of time. We
could use $10 gift cards which is what we provide for 2-person
households.
For the winter holiday meals, we provide additional food for the
week besides just the holiday meal so we need:
Canned pineapple
Applesauce (preferable in plastic)
Scalloped potatoes
Sugar cookie mix in the pouch
Biscuit mix for our seniors
Pancake mix and syrup
Cereal
Instant oatmeal
Pasta and pasta sauce
Hot cocoa
Peanut butter
In addition, we provide stocking to our seniors, adults with
disabilities, single parents, and adults who live alone; everyone
deserves something to feel loved and recognized during the holidays.
This year we have more than ever, we have 175 seniors alone!! If you
would like to purchase a stocking or holiday bag and fill them with
generic items that would be lovely and appreciated.
Thank you for all that YOU do for our community.
Sincerely,
Debbie Evans
Founder and President
Our amazing and talented, hardworking Board of Directors
Lisa Loeser, Chairperson
MaryJo Toepfer, Vice Chairperson
John Kane, Treasurer
Cherie Evans, Secretary
Mary Bragg, Board Member
Rachel DeBlieck, Board Member
John Villeneuve, Board Member
Emily Arnold, Board Member
Diane Zaccarine, Board Member
Emily Wayland, Board Member
WAYS TO DONATE
* Go to our website at www.irondequoitcommunitycupboard.org and click on
our Paypal link or use the QR code from your Smartphone.
* Look at our Top 10 list always listed on our Facebook page or our
website and choose an item to purchase for us
* Donate food items and drop them off at any of our drop-off sites
* Donate gift cards for those who come to us after all of our deadlines have passed.
* Check donations can be made payable to ICC c/o Debbie Evans
PO Box 17834 Rochester, NY 14617