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Last Monday of each month
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.
Second Harvest Gleaners Food Bank is sending a truck
with 5,000 lbs. of food (fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products, and
canned goods).
Our food pantry works
with farmers, packers, processors, distributors, truckers, retailers,
brokers, reclamation centers and the government. It gives them a profitable, convenient
donation outlet for simple surpluses, seconds, misprints, short-fills,
dents, leftover holiday items, seasonal goods, promotional items,
close-code-dated goods, customer refusals, over-bakes, or discontinued
product lines.
These goods are available to needy households,
the homeless, unemployed senior citizens, runaways, refugees, migrant farm
workers, at-risk children, welfare-to-work families, single-parent
households, persons in substance abuse treatment programs, those going through difficult times
because of health reasons or job layoffs.
All you need to
receive food is fill out a form with your name, address, and number of
people in your family. No one will
be turned away unless food runs out.
You Can Help Sponsor This Ministry!
When we draw goods from the Food Bank
we pay a handling fee of $250 for a truck of 5,000 lbs. If you will help cover some of those
costs, two wonderful things can happen:
1. You could get up to 75% of your
money back! Gifts to the Food Bank,
even if designated to an agency’s account, qualify for a 50% Michigan State
Tax Credit (up to $100 for a $200 gift from an individual, and up to $200
for a $400 gift from a couple filing jointly) and whatever normal Federal
Income Tax deduction the donor claims for charitable contributions, which
for many people can be 28%. So each
dollar you give could cost you as little as 25 cents.
2. But each dollar you give could let
this food program draw somewhere between $15 to as much as $50’s worth of
food to give to needy families.
$15 to $50’s worth of food for
25 cents…. If that isn’t the best bargain around, it is pretty close!
How can you take advantage of
this opportunity?
--Make out your check to: Second
Harvest Gleaners Food Bank and
note on the memo line of the check
or in a note sent with the check that funds are to be put on our account
(Account #1953).
--Then mail your check to: Second
Harvest Gleaners Food Bank
864
West River Center Drive
Comstock
Park, MI 49321
That’s it! And thanks a lot. Sincerely, Eric Perysian, Director
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