September 2019
Banner Agency: Pierz Area Food Shelf
Your Agency Relations Newsletter (YARN) A Newsletter for Fabulous Agency Partners
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Drivers have a challenging job and we love them for it! They navigate traffic, road conditions and weather every day. They also want to make sure every stop is safe and satisfactory! There are a number of things you can do to help your deliveries go smoothly and safely. We've created a guide to serve as a training tool and poster for your program to help volunteers and staff navigate deliveries.
Core Produce is expanding to include apples and carrots! That will bring total available Core offerings to four (apples, carrots, onions and potatoes). Core produce offers year-round availability of quality inspected, repacked, highly desired fruits and vegetables. Click here to learn more.
Pipestone County Area Food Shelf has made a lot of changes to increase access to food in their community. The food shelf recently completed a SuperShelf transformation and used a grant from SHH to purchase an electronic client tracking system, computer and scale. Learn more.
Pat Ollhoff from the Belle Plaine Food Shelf and Karla Bauer, Food Rescue Specialist, presented the Coborn’s store with a certificate showing that they’ve donated 29,803 meals to their community from July 2018 to July 2019 through the food rescue pounds collected. Many of the Coborn’s staff have volunteered with the food shelf and currently the Store Director, Josh, serves on the food shelf Board of Directors.
The Banner Agency pictured above is the Pierz Area Food Shelf. Pat Zimmerman is pictured outside the food shelf showing off their new sign and standing on a new handicap accessible ramp recently added with support from the community. The food shelf served about 52 households a month in 2018.
Be a Banner Agency! Submit a photo of your program and we'll feature it in the YARN banner above. Please also include a one-two sentence fun fact, statistic or something that excites you about your program. Send pictures to your Partner Specialist or agencies@2harvest.org.
Please note that Grant Milk (for emergency programs) will be temporarily suspended due to availability of low shared maintenance milk recently donated. Please contact Agency Services 651-209-7990 or orders@2harvest.org with questions.
Join the SHH Partner Network private Facebook group! Network with other food shelves, meal programs, backpacks, produce distributions and other food assistance programs any time you have time! Ask questions, post stuff and share best practices.
Find SHH job opportunities to share with your network. If you'd like to share your program's job postings with the network, please post on the SHH Partner Network private Facebook group.
