Uncategorized – 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=7.1 https://www.d300foodpantry.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-FoodPantry-New1000x1000-Just-AppleChanged-32x32.png Uncategorized – D300 Food Pantry https://www.d300foodpantry.org 32 32 2nd Annual Drive to Beat Hunger Golf Outing Amazing Success https://www.d300foodpantry.org/2nd-annual-drive-to-beat-hunger-golf-outing-amazing-success/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 02:51:48 +0000 https://www.d300foodpantry.org/?p=2378

The D300 Food Pantry recently held our Second Annual “Drive to Beat Hunger” Golf Outing and it was a HUGE SUCCESS!  A Committee of members from the Pantry Board undertook the enormous task of planning, coordinating, and executing this event for our organization. In total, we had over 80 golfers join us and over 20 sponsors at various levels, raising thousands of dollars to help KEEP THE KIDS FED in School District 300. 

Check out our photo gallery capturing moments from this event, held on Friday, May 17th. The golfers, the After Party guests, and the committee, as well as all our other volunteers, immensely enjoyed the beautiful day! We cannot wait for our THIRD ANNUAL Golf Outing!

A VERY special thank you to the following SPONSORS: 

Pantry Pacesetters ($2,500 sponsors)

  • The Lambert Family
  • Lamp Construction
  • American Community Bank & Trust 

Pantry Partners ($1,000 sponsors)

  • Dewberry Architects
  • American Commercial Bank & Trust
  • The Bumbales Family

]]> 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.

Sources:

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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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