Nikki Kuhlman – D300 Food Pantry https://www.d300foodpantry.org Together, We're Keepin' the Kids Fed Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:11:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.d300foodpantry.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-FoodPantry-New1000x1000-Just-AppleChanged-32x32.png Nikki Kuhlman – D300 Food Pantry https://www.d300foodpantry.org 32 32 Lucky Clover Raffle https://www.d300foodpantry.org/lucky-clover-raffle/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:59:20 +0000 https://35.230.174.93/?p=1130 Feeling Lucky? Grab Your Entries Now for the LUCKY CLOVER RAFFLE! Buy tickets here.

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]]> D300 Food Pantry Annual Meeting https://www.d300foodpantry.org/d300-food-pantry-annual-meeting-awards/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:46:41 +0000 https://35.230.174.93/?p=903 D300 Food Pantry held their 2023 annual meeting and award ceremony last night at the D300 Central Administration offices last night. Leslie LaMarca, Executive Director of the D300 Food Pantry, shared highlights from the 2022 year and awarded three community partners and one volunteer with awards.

Some highlights from 2022:

  • 1,206 unique children served
  • 530 unique households served
  • 2,450 unique individuals served
  • 123 food distributions from pantry shopping, box pickup, special deliveries and Eagles Wings distributions
  • 159 tons of food collected

Three community partner awards were handed out:

  • Representative Suzanne Ness and her staff: for the diaper drives and donations made through the year
  • Bimbos Bakery: for the generous donation of baked goods including breads, pastries and other baked goods
  • Butcher on the Block: for the generous donations through the year of meats, particularly around the holidays

And finally, the coveted Volunteer of the Year award was given to Jessica “Jessi” Szczypinski for her dedication. Jessi became an integral part of the pantry team this year, volunteering her time week after week. She has worked every shift, and stepped in to lead when we were short handed, volunteered for extra pantry events and really built her knowledge of all the happenings at the pantry. She has continued to share her love for the pantry in the community, organizing food drives with her school’s PTO, and inviting new people to come and volunteer with us.

Jessica Szczypinski, Volunteer of the Year
]]> SNAP Myths https://www.d300foodpantry.org/snap-myths/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:23:09 +0000 https://35.230.174.93/?p=858

There’s so many myths about food stamp recipients – lets talk about them.

📚 SNAP Myths: Sources & References

Myth #1: “People Who Get SNAP Don’t Work”

Fact: The overwhelming majority of SNAP recipients who can work, do work.

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Myth #2: “SNAP is a Drain on Taxpayers”

Fact: Every $1 in SNAP benefits generates roughly $1.50–$1.80 in economic activity.

Sources:

Myth #3: “SNAP is Rife with Fraud and Abuse”

Fact: SNAP has one of the lowest fraud and trafficking rates of any public benefit program — under 3%.

Sources:

  • U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Actions Needed to Better Measure and Address Retailer Trafficking. GAO-19-115, 2018. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-19-115.pdf

Myth #4: “SNAP Benefits Go to Undocumented Immigrants”

Fact: Undocumented immigrants have never been eligible for federal SNAP benefits.

Sources:

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