Workplace Giving

Immanuel Church member Ben Rippel approached his employer about making a donation to the food bank and they said, 'Yes We Can'. Workplace giving at Immanuel Community Services is a beautiful thing, we are an independent 501 organization so the gift is tax deductible and the financial support continues our 25 year plus tradition of service to the community. Many companies have programs that support nonprofits like Immanuel Community Services, tell your workplace about the Immanuel food bank and you may hear 'yes' like Ben did. Thank you Ben for taking the initiative and for stopping by to drop off the check pictured above at a December distribution from left to right; Brandon program coordinator / Gary volunteer / Ben Immanuel Member.

Our New Community Partner: Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market at 2210 Westlake has reached out to their neighborhood food bank! We first met the folks at Whole Foods on World Food Day, October 16th, when they hosted a canned food drive for Immanuel; they put us and our donation table right by customer service and the customers responded by donating hundreds of pounds of food and hundreds of dollars.

Whole Foods must of liked having us there because now we are picking up grocery rescue food once a week. We are thankful for the much needed ongoing donations and are very grateful for the warmth and compassion the Whole Foods team members show us. Storefront photo provided by Life As Art.

Thanksgiving Basket Success!

We had a very successful 2009 Thanksgiving distribution; at every Immanuel food bank clients choose the food they take home, for Thanksgiving clients also received a basket (reusable shopping bag) containing items we usually do not have at distribution. Nearly 200 baskets filled with traditional Thanksgiving items (broth, stuffing and cranberry sauce) and 'hard to get items' (sugar, cooking oil and bandaids) went to those with need. Multiple food drives occurred in order to have enough food for this special purpose; thank you to Whole Foods, Antioch University Admissions, Immanuel Lutheran and ICS board member Katie Coleman for hosting food drives! Of course thank you to the volunteers pictured above (including our neighbors at Outrider Ad Agency) who assembled the baskets.