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Easter Baskets Needed
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Every year IOCP collects Easter Baskets to distribute to client families. Learn more. |
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e-Touch
IOCP's monthly online newsletter
February 2010
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 We are delighted to welcome
Lynn Vettel to our staff. Lynn has accepted a newly created position as Director of Community
Engagement. In that role she will participate
as a member of the IOCP management team responsible for designing and implementing a community
engagement program that addresses volunteer needs and opportunities across the
organization. Lynn will work with our board,staff, and volunteer leaders to increase
IOCP's capacity for broadened community engagement in the mission and vision of
IOCP. She will be the key contact at IOCP for all volunteer
opportunities.
Lynn came to IOCP
in the late summer of 2009 as a loaned executive from General Mills. She brings to her new role a 28-year
management and community volunteer background. Lynn and her family are long-time Plymouth residents. Please help us welcome Lynn. She can be reached at lvettel@iocp.org or (952) 473-2436.
LaDonna Hoy
IOCP Executive Director
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Feeding our hungry neighbors
The March Minnesota FoodShare Campaign runs March 1 to April 2, and more than 3,500 people in our community are counting on us.
 We encourage families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers to organize a food drive to expand the impact of their contribution and help us at this most critical time. List of items needed.
· Food donations are accepted
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
· For larger donations, schedule a drop-off time by callling (952) 516-6061.
· Financial contributions to the IOCP Food Shelf are accepted in person, by mail, or online. (If paying by check, indicate "food" in the notation line.)
During last year's campaign, IOCP
collected 42,537 lbs. of food and $29,789, allowing us to leverage
additional dollars from Minnesota FoodShare and the Feinstein
Foundation to purchase items from Second Harvest at a fraction of the retail cost. Let's make this a record year in feeding our hungry neighbors!
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Generous, faithful leadership
Effective February 26, and after 17 years of extraordinary
service, Susan Fetterer is leaving IOCP better, stronger, wiser for her
generous, faithful leadership as Director of Volunteer Services.
Over the
years, Susan's organizational ability and managementskills have shepherded and significantly grown the capacity
and efficiency ofIOCP special
programs--the IOCP Food Shelf and the Clothes to You Clothing Shelf, as well
as the Adopt-A-Family, Easter
Basket, Back to School, and Welcome Home Baby programs. Her commitment to delivering respectful, quality
services and to making life better for the people we serve is a gift that will
keep on giving.
Susan's outstanding work in calling and placing in service
literally hundreds and hundreds of people over the years leaves us not only a strong
and dedicated cadre of volunteers to carry on but a structure to build upon
going into the next stage of IOCP's journey. We hope you will join us in expressing heartfelt thanks to
Susan for her years of service not only to IOCP and the people we serve, but indeed
to a whole community. Susan can be reached at (952) 516-6061.
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Support student success
 Give students the support they need to succeed in school. Two to three additional homework helpers are needed at each site. Contact Nichole Garrett for:
Shenandoah Woods, Wednesdays,
5:30-7 p.m.
Willow Woods, Tuesdays, 4-5:30 p.m.
Contact Kimberly Conger for:
Vicksburg Commons, Tuesdays, 5-6:15 p.m.
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Dancing in gratitude
The Weekly Needs program was started to fill specific requests from IOCP families. The response
has been phenomenal. Some of the donations include: beds, mattresses and bedding, work and maternity clothing, funds for senior pictures, vacuum cleaners, school uniforms, pots and pans, car seats, and bikes.
On behalf of the more than 125 families who have been helped since the program began, thank you for filling these one-time requests. As one recipient said, "If I were Irish, I'd dance an Irish jig. . . what the heck, I will anyway. Thank you!"
If you see a need you can't fill but know someone who can, please forward the request. To be added to the Weekly Needs e-mail, contact Deb Caris.
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The mission of IOCP is to identify and respond to the unmet basic needs of people in our community,
and to assist them in moving toward self-sufficiency through the creative action of an inclusive
partnership of communities of faith, schools, government, businesses, community groups,
foundations, health systems, and individuals. |
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