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Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries
Mission: The agency serves the communities of oracle, san manuel and mammoth with a monthly food box. Don't send a child to bed hungry. "
Programs: -provided emergency food boxes to 3,732 households with 11,828 people. The unduplicated count for the year was 529 households with 1,774 people. -additionally provided 250 thanksgiving and 250 christmas holiday food baskets. -spent $81,000 for the purchase of all food, including emergency boxes, holiday food baskets and for ongoing inventory. -administrated and coordinated sponsors for christmas gifts for the tri-community food bank adopt-a-family program for 60 families with 155 children. -provided free used clothing to the needy; and offered for sale gently-used clothing and household items through the agencys thrift shop. -provided $9,800 in community assistance to 78 households for utility and rent assistance. -administrated and distributed $1,103 in salvation army /share utility assistance to 10 households and $1200 in efsp rent assistance to 4 households. -collected and reported client information for the community church at saddlebrooke, saddlebag notes community fund, saddlebrooke community outreach, united food bank of mesa, salvation army and the irs.