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We Need Food!
The DMARC Food Pantry Network will have several large groups of volunteers next week during Spring Break, but we need food. The warehouse has a very low inventory of donated food for the volunteers to sort and pack.
 Food donations may be dropped off at the food pantry warehouse at 1435 Mulberry Street, Des Moines, between 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
The warehouse will also have special hours from Noon-2:00 p.m., on March 15 & 16, 2014, to accept food donations.
Thank you for your support!
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Volunteers needed
during Spring Break,
March 17-21, 2014!
Check out these opportunities!
Volunteers will be counting the number of people coming in for supplemental food items and the total number of supplemental food that are distributed beyond the standard DMARC food packages.
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DMARC FOOD PANTRY
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# OF VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
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DATE
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TIME
OF
SHIFT
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TIME
OF
SHIFT
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Des Moines Community Action Agency,
1618 6th Ave.,
Des Moines, IA 50314
515-248-6216
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2 persons
per shift
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3/17/14
Monday
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11am to 12:45pm
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3pm to 4:45pm
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Bidwell Riverside Center,
1203 SE. Hartford Ave.,
Des Moines, IA 50315
515-244-6251
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3 people
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3/18/14
Tuesday
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10am to 3pm
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Salvation Army Citadel,
1216 E. 25th Ct.,
Des Moines, IA 50317
515-266-3156
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2 persons
per shift
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3/20/14
Thursday
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9:30am to Noon
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1pm to 3:30pm
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Salvation Army Temple,
1330 6th Ave.,
Des Moines, IA 50314
515-282-3422
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3 persons
per shift
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3/20/14
Thursday
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9am to Noon
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1pm to 3:30pm
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If interested in volunteering during Spring Break, please call the food pantries to signup for a shift. Thank you.
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MovetheFood is a DMARC-led initiative to address the entire food system in Greater Des Moines, building on more than 37 years of food assistance work, catalyzing fresh generations, and engaging new constituencies to further support a vision for a day when everyone in Polk County has enough to eat.
The DMARC Food Pantry Network is the largest in Iowa, made up of a centralized warehouse and 13 partnering distribution sites. The DMARC Food Pantry network helps meet short-term food needs when families do not have enough to eat. Once each month, families can receive a free, four-day supply of nutritionally balanced food. In 2013, DMARC assisted more than 34,000 individuals in the Greater Des Moines community; half of whom were children and youth.
The Des Moines Area Religious Council is an interfaith organization with a core membership of over 130 congregations from four faith traditions. Recipient of the 2012 LIVE UNITED Advocate Award from the United Way of Central Iowa, DMARC provides a common means of responding to basic human needs and a context for interfaith dialogue.
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