Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Kathy Abouzahra Scholarship, Sean Gallagher and Mikayla Donovan!
Sean will be attending Harvard University and Mikayla will attend Brandeis University. Best of luck to you both!
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WE ARE MOVING
***The Pantry is moving! As of May 23rd, 2022, our new location will be 21 Murray Ave, Burlington, MA.***
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PHP Food Pantry Quarterly
Hiring: People Helping People Food Pantry Manager
Report: Director to People Helping People
Full time: 40 hours
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
· Place orders for food and supplies from a number of sources, including but not limited to the Greater Boston Food Bank, retail stores, wholesalers, and other nonprofits
· Ensure that transportation and volunteers are lined up to transport, receive, record, date-check, organize and shelve orders and donations
· Keeping inventory up to date
· Supervise a rotating crew of volunteers, including but not limited to orienting new volunteers, providing job descriptions, task lists, training and support as needed
· Maintain pantry order and cleanliness. Manage appliances and other equipment. Help with building maintenance
· Work with Pantry Director to decide weekly food availability and client shopping lists
· Field calls and emails from clients, the general public, businesses and organizations
· Help prepare monthly and annual reports for the PHP Board of Directors and partner organizations
· Support other staff members as needed
· Participate in public events
· Provide data, stories and information for website, social media and press releases as needed
· Other responsibilities as indicated by the Pantry Director
Qualifications
· 1-3 years of experience in a food pantry is preferred
· Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
· Excellent communication, problem solving and people skills
· Ability to work a flexible work schedule (some evening and occasional weekend hours)
· Ability to lift 30-50 lbs
· Experience recruiting, training, supervising and/or monitoring volunteers
· Ability to organize work with multiple responsibilities and tasks
· Commitment to non-discrimination, sensitivity and respect for all people
· Ability to interpret food pantry policies and state and local guidelines
Respond with letter and resume to Jane McIninch at hiringatPHP@gmail.com
Congratulations!
To the 2 recipients of the 2021 Kathy Abouzahra Memorial Scholarship:
Matthew Tengtrakool – Harvard University
Prapti Shaw – Northeastern University
Matthew Tengtrakool – Harvard University
Prapti Shaw – Northeastern University
Congratulations to Alyssa and Gianna for receiving the Kathy Abouzahra Memorial Scholarship, $2,500 each! We wish you both continued success!
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Things we want you to know…
• CLOSED MONDAYS: Effective Monday, May 11th the Pantry will no longer offer distribution on Mondays. This will allow us to receive and process larger deliveries so that we can serve you better. We will be open the other distribution days as usual: Tue 3-7pm, Wed 11-2 and Thurs 10-12.
• We know many of you are receiving unfamiliar foods, and we ask for your patience as we work to find new ways to get closer to providing you only what you need.
• In the meantime, if you have excess food, we encourage you to share it with someone who might be in need, try something new, or donate it back in our donation center.
• Each week we will now be asking you more questions in order to better accommodate your needs, which may slow down the process somewhat.
● Stay tuned as we are working on ways to make each week’s list available for you to fill out prior to coming to the Pantry. If you want to learn more, please email burlingtonpantry@gmail.com.
Learn More
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Register NOW
Children need healthy food to learn and grow and be active. Let us help you provide lunch for your child(ren) while home on April vacation!
People Helping People invites you to sign your child(ren) up for our FREE People Helping People Lunch Program for Kids.
What you need to know:
• You will receive the foods and recipes necessary to prepare 5 lunches, 5 snacks and 5 beverages for each child.
• Pick up time: Monday, April 20th, 4:00-6:00 pm
• Pick up location: PHP Food Pantry, 10 Saint Mark’s Road, Burlington, MA
• FREE to all families participating in the Free or Reduced Price school meals in Burlington as well as to current People Helping People Food Pantry clients with school-age children.
To register for the program please fill out our registration form online at: https://tinyurl.com/PHPLPKapril2020
Lunches are provided in collaboration with Burlington Public School Services. If you have any questions or have trouble accessing the online form, please call 781-270-6625 or e-mail us at burlingtonpantry@gmail.com
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Warmest regards,
Jane McIninch and Cheryl Barnes
Registration letter to parents April 2020
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Bear Cubs at Pantry
Thank you to the Bear Cubs for volunteering at the food pantry! They had a big food drive at their derby rally on January 25 and came in to help sort the donated food on January 31.
Special thanks to Larry and Amy Warfield.
We are very excited that Bob Murray and the Cafe Escadrille will be hosting the 9th Annual Wine Tasting & Charity Auction on Sunday, February 23 from 2-5 pm. Price this year will be $60pp. Proceeds benefit People Helping People!
A few exciting changes this year – We have a new auctioneer Burlington’s own Jack Ferren! Jack promised to bring a lot of fun in the afternoon. We are selling a few tables of 12 that can be reserved in advance. Tables must be paid by February 15th. We will also have a new improved checkout at the time of your purchase!
Only 180 tickets will be sold. Tickets can be purchased at Spencer Cleaners (both locations), A Whole Bunch of Flowers or by contacting Janet Sullivan-Fitzgerald at sullivanfh@comcast.net or 781-244-9519!