Welcome
Continued Covid Policy...
When you arrive at ICC at your scheduled food pickup
time, please drive past our building, turn around and pull up along the
edge of ICC. We will bring your items to your car.
Thank you for your cooperation.
All volunteers are fully vaccinated and wear a mask for the health and safety of everyone.
Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc.
The Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization designed to meet a variety of needs for families and individuals in the Town of Irondequoit, NY.
Mission Statement
“To provide emergency assistance to Irondequoit residents with dignity, kindness and without prejudice.”
Vision
"To raise awareness of the presence and impact of hunger and poverty in our
community. We envision a community where all people share resources to ensure
that residents’ basic needs are met in times of limited resources.
We advocate for and reach out to those in need and try to influence public
policy so that every person in our community has the necessary support and
resources to enhance nutrition, health and welfare.”
Amazon.com for ICC
This will only take a moment of your time; I know you shop at Amazon,
especially for the holidays. You can help the Irondequoit Community
Cupboard just by going to
https://smile.amazon.com and then
type in Irondequoit Community Cupboard You would then continue to shop
whatever it was you were shopping for and we get a (small) dollar
percentage of your order. So we win for you doing what you were going to
do anyway. This would be a great and easy way for you to “Help us Help
others” in our community.
For more information you can go to Facebook page for up to date photos
and info
https://www.facebook.com/Irondequoit-Community-Cupboard-Inc-180196068672489/?fref=ts
United Way
Remember us at United Way giving time we are designee #2466
Bottle and Can Returns
Great news!!! Thanks to Bob Schultz for making me aware of a unique (to
us) way for us to raise some money. If you need to return bottles and
cans, and who doesn’t, you can bring them to Quick Cans Recycling at 471
East Ridge Road, Rochester, NY 14621, and donate the proceeds to us just
by mentioning the Irondequoit Community Cupboard.
If you are in need of
assistance, please call (585) 336-9107.
(no appointments are made online)
Distribution Hours (BY
APPOINTMENT ONLY)
Tuesday & Saturday from 9:30AM - 11:00AM.
Office Hours (BY PHONE ONLY)
Monday & Wednesday 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Fridays 9:00AM-12:00PM
"Letter from the President"
(December 2022)
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Is it really December already? Where has the time gone. We have been
so busy at ICC between our regular business, Thanksgiving, our new
building and now Christmas. We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving.
Before I go further, to any of our current and new volunteers, I am
now signing people up to volunteer for January through March. Please
email me your availabilities or wants and I will fit you in.
We had so many amazing people who donated to help us with
Thanksgiving and now Christmas and we ae beyond grateful. We are
also grateful to all of you who have donated items through other
groups, they have been coming in as well. The donations at the
library and fire house have been amazing!! Thank you all!
Continued thanks, to those of you who pick up and drop off donations
for us, you are a special bunch, and we know it! Thank you to all of
you who participated in our First Annual Days of Giving in November,
it was wonderful to see the idea take off. So many families (sizes
of 4 or more) were amazed to see what you had done for them and how
generous you were. Thank you.
This year has been trying on so many levels. The need has grown to a
level I have never seen before, and I have been doing this for
almost 30 years now. The anguish and anxiety people are going
through is heart wrenching. The numbers of seniors coming to us for
the first time…. I don’t know if I have mentioned this, but our
weekend backpack numbers have more than tripled than what we have
seen in the past and it has been increasingly difficult to find
items that we need for this program.
For Thanksgiving, we provided more meals than ever. We provided food
for over 700 individuals. This year we provided frozen meals and
mini pies to our seniors, adults with disabilities and adults who
live alone. In the past, we have provided freshly cooked, catered
meals to these individuals but the expense this year was far too
great for our budget. We hope that everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.
Our deadline to sign up for Christmas, including Special Santas has
now passed. To those of you who sponsored a family, or who are
providing stockings, a reminder that all items are to us next
weekend. We will be at ICC on Friday Dec 9th from 330pm to 500pm and
then again Saturday Dec 10th from 1200pm to 300pm for you to drop
these items off. Please, if you can help it, do not drop off your
items on Saturday between 945am to 1100am, it is way too busy.
Thank you so much to:
Irondequoit Presbyterian Church
Irondequoit United Church of Christ
Irondequoit Resurrection CHjurch
St Kateri
Temple Emanuel
East Irondequoit School District
West Irondequoit School District
The Town of Irondequoit
Transfiguration Lutheran CHurch
Browncroft Community Church
Amico Foods
Point Pleasant Ladies Auxiliary
Irondequoit American Legion #134
Sherry
Leah and Sean
Susan and MaryKay
kelly Coiro
Jackie Cronmiller
Don and Nancy Story
Living Water
Patricia Walker
Erin, Anne, Dan, Maggie and Marc
Amys Ladies Night Group
Oakview Neighborhood Association
The Lions Club
The Pardee Hill Neighborhood
Michelle Creary
Diane McHale Mix
Irondequoit Quilt Club
The Ladies Guild
Warren
John Slice
Iroquois Service Club
I.H.S. DECA
Toby Berke and Family
Salon Roc
Lake Breeze Wellness
I am sorry for anyone I may have missed but I promise you we are
grateful for each and every item, and each and every dollar donated.
We continue to receive questions regarding items to donate. The
space in our building is very limited so if, for the time being, you
could limit your nonperishable food donations to the items on our
list, we would be grateful. It takes a lot of time and man hours to
go through it all, date everything and get the items on our shelves.
Our shelf space, especially through the holidays is also very
limited and the space to move around is beyond cramped always, but
especially at the holiday time.
For those of you who ask, what we need for our Christmas baskets, we
need the following items:Christmas baskets/holiday meal
1 can of pineapple
1 can green beans
1 can of corn
1 scalloped potatoes
1 sugar cookie mix
1 frosting
1 box of hot cocoa
1 small box of cereal
1 small pancake mix
1 pasta
1 spaghetti sauce (non-breakable jar please)
1 peanut butter
1 jelly
A few pieces of chocolate or candy canes
Items for Stockings that we are still in need of:
gift cards for area restaurants, grocery stores, gas cards
WARM gloves and mittens
To get a picture of what we go through for our weekend backpack
program, picture 250 kids. This means 250 soups per week, 250 boxes
of mac and cheese per week. 250 juice per week. 250 milk per week.
750 snacks PER week…
Items for our Weekend Backpack program that are in very short
supply:
Condensed chicken noodle soup
Condensed tomato soup
Condensed vegetable soup
Instant oatmeal
100%juice boxes
fruit cups
canned pasta meals like chef boy r dee
macaroni and cheese
small bags of pretzels, popcorn, fishies or cheezits
chewy granola bars
Crunchy granola bars
Jif to Go
Sincerely,
Debbie Evans, President
Executive Director
(585)336-9107
Our amazing and talented, hardworking Board of Directors
Lisa Loeser, Chairperson
MaryJo Toepfer, Vice Chairperson
John Kane, Treasurer
Cherie Evans, Secretary
Diane Zaccarine, Corresponding Secretary
Mary Bragg, Board Member
John Villeneuve, Board Member
WAYS TO GIVE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
* Go to RoctheDay.org and then Irondequoit Community Cupboard -every
dollar makes a difference. Starting at midnight 12/1/2021.
* Go to our website at www.irondequoitcommunitycupboard.org and click on
our Paypal link.
* Look at our Top 10 list always listed on our Facebook page or our
website. (see below) and choose an item to purchase for us
* Donate food items for our Holiday basket
* Donate food items for our Weekend Backpack Program
* Donate gift cards for those who come to us after all of our deadlines have passed.
* Check donations can be made payable to ICC c/o Debbie Evans
PO Box 17834 Rochester, NY 14617