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  • The Dedham Food Pantry – Helping over 200 Families – Est. 1989

    Dedham Food Pantry
    P.O. Box 46, Dedham, MA 02026
    Tel: 781-320-9442

Pantry News

Dedham Food Pantry Volunteer Appreciation Night

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION NIGHT
The Dedham Food Pantry cordially invites all volunteers, past, present and future, to join us at the Dedham Community House on September 15th at 7 pm for
the Dedham Food Pantry Volunteer Appreciation Night.
We are extremely grateful for all the time, resources, and support that you
have provided. Your donations, weekly volunteering, and your tremendous
assistance [...]

The Grainger Foundation Supports the Dedham Food Pantry

Dedham, MA, (August 25, 2010) – The Grainger Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, has donated $5,000 to The Dedham Food Pantry in support of its mission to help end hunger within the community in which it serves.
“This donation helps us extend our mission of providing food to the hungry in Dedham,” said Lindsay Barich, Vice President, [...]

Yard House donates 300 lbs of steak to the Dedham Food Pantry!

The food pantry was very fortunate a few weeks ago to receive a call from Roland Solorzano the manager of the Yard House restaurant located at Legacy Place who had a problem. Apparently a supplier had delivered their meats frozen which the Yard House standards do not allow and Roland thought of the food [...]

Dedham Food Pantry Has a New Home

The Dedham Food Pantry has located a new home on the ground level of the Dedham Plaza, 600 Washington Street.  The Board of Trustees is grateful to Federal Realty Investment Trust for generously making space available. It also is very appreciative of the kind hospitality offered by St. John United Methodist Church over the past [...]

Dedham Food Pantry Benefit at Sagra in Dedham May 25th, 7 to 9pm

Sagra Restaurant is having a benefit for the Dedham Food Pantry on May 25th from 7 to 9pm.
All proceeds are will be donated to the Dedham Food Pantry.  The suggested donation is $10.00.
Please RSVP by May 24th to Chris Lyons Communications at lyonspr@rcn.com
We hope to see you there…

The Dedham Girl Scout Troop# 74589 recently donated 20 cases of Girl Scout Cookies to the Dedham Food Pantry.

MAY 2010
 The Dedham Girl Scout Troop# 74589 recently donated 20 cases of Girl Scout Cookies to the Dedham Food Pantry.  We are very grateful to troop leaders Beth Lewman and Jodi Shair for organizing and donating the cookies!.  Pictured here are several members of the troop - Jacque, Samantha, Sidney, Karen, Olivia, and Alyssa – carrying in the cookies. On [...]

Nutrition News Letters

May 2010 Nutrition New Letter

Research shows that every year, the average US household throws away 470 pounds of food. What can we do to change this? Here are some tips and recipes on how to make the most of your food dollars and how to transform leftovers and old recipes into new, flavorful and quick meals.
Save money with what [...]

November Nutrition Newsletter

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Kings Lanes recently sponsored a night to honor 5 of the Dedham area non profit organizations by donating $2000 to each group.

Kings Lanes recently sponsored a night to honor 5 of the Dedham area non profit organizations by donating $2000 to each group.
The non profit organizations where the: Dedham Food Pantry, Dedham Square Cirlcle, Dedham Youth Little League, Mother Brook Neighborhood Alliance, and Dedham Community House.
The Dedham Food Pantry is very greatfull for this donation that [...]

May 21st Uno Chicago Grill Dough Rai$ser Event

On Friday, May 21st  Uno Chicago Grill will be sponsoring a Dough Rai$ser event for the Dedham Food Pantry.
Come into the Uno’s on Providence Highway on Friday, May 21st with a Dough Rai$er Donation Ticket and 20% of all receipts received will go towards the Dedham Food Pantry.
Dough Rai$er  tickets will be  e-mailed out this [...]

New York Life Retirement Plan Services Employees Donate

It is our pleasure to donate $361.00 to such a wonderful organization.
Once a month in our Westwood office, we have what we refer to as a Charitable Casual Friday.  For the privilege of dressing casual, you must donate $1.00 to charity.  Every month a different charity is chosen.  The charity chosen for the month of [...]

Great free site to down load coupons

http://www.mavenofsavin.com/
The above link is a great website to down load coupons which Dedham resident and pantry volunteer Lynn Mahoney created for viewers to receive daily “coupon deals” and has over 15,000 hits a day!  She is local mom who purchases numerous items such as cereal, ketchup and mayonnaise to name a few through coupon rebates [...]

2nd Annual “Holiday Harvest Telethon”!

The Dedham Food Pantry would like to thank all the volunteers, businesses, performers, donors, and the people that participated in the 2nd Annual “Holiday Harvest Telethon”!
A special “Thank You” goes out to Dedham Public TV that produced, directed, and sponsored the broadcast again this year.
Donations are still coming in from the original broadcast and the [...]

Pantry has wish fulfilled: a new home

By Michele Morgan Bolton, Globe Correspondent  |  December 10, 2009
The wish list wasn’t fancy, but it was specific, as trustees of the Dedham Food Pantry searched for a new home in recent months after the crushing news that the church basement where they had helped their neighbors for 20-plus years would no longer be available [...]

Mark Ockerbloom helps raise money for Dedham Food Pantry

DEDHAM, Mass. (FOX25, myfoxboston) – FOX25’s Mark Ockerbloom took part in the Dedham Food Pantry’s Annual Holiday Telethon on Thursday.
üThe pantry gets $8 worth of food for every dollar donated. üThe event was broadcast live from Dedham Public Television, and even featured some step dancers from te O’Dwyer School in Hyde Park. üDon’t forget the [...]

Dedham Food Pantry helps 131 families this holiday

By Edward B. Colby/Dedham Transcript
Dedham Transcript
Posted Nov 25, 2009 @ 01:11 PM
DEDHAM —  Thanksgiving means family to some people, and football to others. For the Dedham Food Pantry, the November holiday is a prime time to fulfill its mission.
The pantry distributed 131 Thanksgiving meals at its annual “Turkey Day” event over the weekend, giving out [...]

Ann Callahan-Spellman

The Dedham Food Pantry presented Dedham business owners with the opportunity to place a Dedham Food Pantry donation can at their  business locations from December 1, 2007 through January 2, 2008, for the benefit of the three-hundred Dedham families assisted by the Food Pantry on a continuous basis and collected  a total of $417.85.
The following [...]

Food Pantry’s largest fund

The Dedham Food Pantry would like to thank the many volunteers who helped make our recent yard sale a huge success.  The Food Pantry raised almost $3500.00 through the combination of the yard sale, bake sale and sale of its private label hot sauce.   Another $1300.00 was raised in donations at the yard sale, making [...]

North Carolina Baptist Church

The local volunteers at the Dedham Food Pantry received some well appreciated help earlier this month from a far away location.  A group of 40 adults and youth from the Elizabethtown, North Carolina Baptist Church spent much of the day working at the Pantry.  Rev. D.L. Page of the North Carolina church found the Dedham [...]

Dedham Police Dept for donating the turkeys

A special thanks to the Dedham Police Dept for donating the turkeys and helping out.

Thank you to everyone that helped out today in handing out 70 turkeys and fixins to our Food Pantry clients.
Thank you to St. John’s United Methodist Church and others for donating hats, mittens, scarfs, socks, and gloves to keep our clients [...]