We have a grocery gift card drive at our school we contributed to. Anyone can get some and it will give the families choices and stretch their budgets. Separately donated to a food bank.

I would like to help in this precise way. Even if I could pay for one grocery run for one Fed family that really needs that help, it would be worth it. But, how do I know who needs it? How do I connect with them? PP, where are you located? I am in MoCo, MD.

The last thing I want to do is to give to charitable organizations because I do not want to pay for their executives.

Yes indeed. Please pay for one family's meals (which you don't have any clue how to do or where to start) instead of contributing to a professional organization that can make that money go 10x as far. Good job.

I started a monthly recurring donation to capital area food bank of $50 and my husband is a fed who isn't being paid.

Anonymous wrote:I donated $100 to Feeding America to give to food banks across the country.

Https://www.feedingamerica.org/

Way to go! Everyone else please keep posting your donations and matching others.

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Anonymous wrote:I donated $500 to Capital Area Food Bank this week. How about someone match me and post here when you do!

I just split $1000 between

Capital Area Food Bank
Manna Food Center
Bread for the City
DC Central Kitchen

Excellent!

I donated $100 to Feeding America to give to food banks across the country.

Https://www.feedingamerica.org/

Bananas apples and oranges are healthful and cheap. Do the little gourmets know organic by taste? Sheesh. What life skills federal service confers. I hope the berry buyer doesn't have to administer programs for the long term poor.

Lol the “DCUM community” is a bunch of anonymous strangers who tear each other apart in a constant war of oneupmanship and are too embarrassed to even admit to others that they post here. Most “communities” have stricter entrance requirements.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a fed with two kids, husbands salary is half of mine. Money would help specifically money for food. Or if someone could pay for grocery pickup and I pick it up. (Just a dream but this is probably what helps most). We’re eating beans and frozen ground beef I got on sale. But for my kiddos I still get fresh berries, fresh veggies, and the food they like (and some of it is organic sigh).

I don’t understand people like this. If you are so poor you can’t fully afford food for your kids, why would you waste what few resources you have on fresh berries and organic food? Organic isn’t some of magic.

I read "and some of it is organic" to modify "food they like." Probably Annie's soups or something that the kid recognizes.

Do you have small kids? It's hard to get them to eat, and to change what they eat. I completely understand wanting to minimize disruption for as long as you can.

I have a tween, and we bought a birthday gift so she could go to a birthday party this weekend. Was that a "waste"? From one point of view, yes. But I'm glad she got to go to the party with her friends.

Anonymous wrote:I donated $500 to Capital Area Food Bank this week. How about someone match me and post here when you do!

I just split $1000 between

Capital Area Food Bank
Manna Food Center
Bread for the City
DC Central Kitchen

Anonymous wrote:I’m a fed with two kids, husbands salary is half of mine. Money would help specifically money for food. Or if someone could pay for grocery pickup and I pick it up. (Just a dream but this is probably what helps most). We’re eating beans and frozen ground beef I got on sale. But for my kiddos I still get fresh berries, fresh veggies, and the food they like (and some of it is organic sigh).

I don’t understand people like this. If you are so poor you can’t fully afford food for your kids, why would you waste what few resources you have on fresh berries and organic food? Organic isn’t some of magic.

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Anonymous wrote:We are donating a ton of spices to a food bank near us.

what kind? where did you get a ton of it?

Why? Don’t people already have spices?

bread for the city has a holiday program that provides the ingredients for a thanksgiving meal (whole frozen turkey + sides) to DC residents this month: https://breadforthecity.org/holidayhelpings/

one meal per household, just need DC ID or some other proof of DC residence. Nov 3-25.

Anonymous wrote:For those who are furloughed or are affected by the SNAP uncertainty, how can the DCUM community help? Donations to food banks? Writing to our legislators?

There’s no “DCUM community.” Please.

I donated $500 to Capital Area Food Bank this week. How about someone match me and post here when you do!