June 8 Report

Jasmine and Lily reporting:
I have good news to share about the Youth Group’s Project during Lent.

We collected enough items to donate 6 Birthday Bags and 6 Baby Bags to the Flemington Food Pantry. We also collected enough funds to purchase items for 30 Birthday Cake Kits for Open Cupboard Pantry.

We also submitted our project for a grant through the Explore.Act.Tell program funded by Albertson’s Corporation as part of their Nourishing Neighbors outreach. In our area, ACME and Kings grocery stores are part of Albertson’s. Annually, the Explore.Act.Tell program issues 30 grants between $200 and $2,500 to nonprofit organizations involved in food insecurity.
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This week we found out that our project submission was selected as a grant recipient of $2500 for Open Cupboard Food Pantry! We are excited to be able to support the food pantry with a monetary donation in addition to the birthday cake kits and our red wagon ministry. Open Cupboard will receive the funds by mid July. At the end of summer Explore.Act.Tell will send us a “Big Check” that our youth group will present to Open Cupboard to celebrate our work together. We thank our church for their support in donating items and funds to help support our project.

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