Here is the Volunteer Center Newsletter for the month of May 2017.


Newsletter, May 2017 

Upcoming Events

May

Saturday
5/6
Give Grandly
8 - 2,
Mesquitos to be at opening day for Farmers' Market
&
Grant County Food Distribution @ TVC
10 - 12
Tuesday
5/16
Mining District Mobile 
Fo
od Pantry
@ Armory Hwy. 180 Santa Clara
2 - 4

Tuesday
5/23
Sister New Moon Circle to be held at TVC
starting @ 7pm

Wednesday
5/31
Grant County Food Distribution @ TVC
4 - 6

Join us for the 3rd Annual Day of Giving to  be held on Saturday, May 6th...

The annual Give-Grandly event is here once again. Take part in this 24 hour giving event by donating to The Volunteer Center.

The Give Grandly nonprofit fair will be held on 7th Street, next to the Silver City Farmers' Market on opening day Saturday May 6, from 8:30am to 2:00pm. Please help by  supporting our efforts to relieve food insecurity and poverty in Grant County.

On May 6th you have 24 hours to donate. Attend the event in person, or donate online. Click on our home page tvcgrantcounty.org and scroll to the bottom of the page to find the Give Grandly logo.

 Or you can use  this link GiveGrandly.org to go directly to the Give Grandly donation page. 

Be sure to choose The Volunteer Center from the list of non-profits participating so that your donation to goes to The Volunteer Center.All donations are tax deductible! Give a little, give a lot, GIVE GRANDLY. 

Mesquitos to be at Give Grandly on Saturday, May 6th 

Come by our booth at Give Grandly and meet a Mesquito! Representatives of the native foods advocacy group will be at our booth at Give Grandly distributing tasty samples and good ideas to encourage your generosity. We will be sitting with The Volunteer Center, in front of The Market Cafe at Tent 4.E. We hope to see you there!

Our New Website is Live!!!

Back in February, after a series of glitches and a power outage at the site of our previous web hosting company, our old website was erased and no backup could be located. After months of hard work and dedication, we are delighted to announce our new website is now live. Although we are still working out some bugs and editing our information, the public can preview the new site at www.tvcgrantcounty.org.

Our goal with this new website is to provide our visitors an easier way to learn about The Volunteer Center's services and solutions and also to allow the visitor to browse information based on their own choice. The new website is interactive and gives better access to Who We Are, What We Do, Programs and Services, Our Food Pantry, Our Community Kitchen, Our Commons Garden, Support, as well as information pertaining to each program. We will be updating our content with helpful information, articles, and events.

We hope you find the new website with a fresh look and easy to access information. We would also like to thank our amazing staff at TVC, our best I.T. folks, Teri Matelson and Nick Prince, who donated their time and energy to make this site what it is!

Food Pantry Cash Donations Amplify in our Local Economy 
(Part 2 continued from April 2017 Newsletter)
~by John Conway

Part 1 from April 2017 Newsletter - to read click here

Our typical 50 lb. box going to a family in need of 1 - 4 people includes 25 lbs. produce, 22 lbs. grocery items and 3 lbs. of staple foods (pinto beans, brown rice, and rolled oats purchased from Diaz Farms and SC Food Co-op). Our cost is $5.76 for 50 lbs. of mostly quality food. Produce valued at $1.49/lb., groceries at $0.99/lb. and staples at $1.49/lb., which all would total to $61.04. Your cash donation of $100.00 buys 17.3 food boxes and spares $1056.00 in recipients' budgets, which mostly turns over elsewhere in our local economy. This system works and has nothing to do with government.

There is however some government food that goes with the food distribution. It's typically 4 lbs. and is on top of the 50 lb. box...totaling to about 7.5% of poundage.

We wholeheartedly thank the many individuals and institutions who support us and make this all possible! The value of the many, many volunteer hours it takes to pull off these food distributions is off the charts. At the end of the day this all works together to lend a helping hand to individuals and the local economy simultaneously!

If you would like to contribute to our organization, please click here.

SPOTLIGHT

We'd like to send out a huge "Thank You!" to the Rotary Club of Grant County for their financial and volunteer support on our school garden projects! We received a grant from the club to build school garden infrastructure including a shed at Jose Barrios School Garden, raised bed gardens for Harrison Schmitt, and picnic tables, benches, and podiums for 6th St, Harrison Schmitt, and Jose Barrios Elementary Schools! Not only did they help us receive funding, but they also showed up to work at our garden work days!

 

Volunteer Opportunities

Commons Garden

We can always use volunteers who love working with the earth, with planting, with weeding, with composting.... in other words all the work needed to make a garden  THRIVE! Come in & talk with Kristin.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 
TO OUR COMMUNITY

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