Community Action Center

The Food & Shelter Folks

Thank You, Community! We’re Pulling through the Pandemic Together

We are so grateful to live in community where people have each other’s backs and help each other out when times get tough. You stepped up to the plate in 2020 with donations to help out neighbors like Jessica, who lost her job during the pandemic and is dealing with the stress of trying to pay for rent, food, and utilities.

Jessica is a single mother with two school-age children. She lives in a small town in rural Whitman County and worked in a local small business, and worked some evenings as a server in a local restaurant. With her hard work, she has been able to afford a modest home for her family, even while living paycheck to paycheck. Then, the restaurant where Jessica worked reduced its hours and was not able to keep her working. Her office job also asked her to reduce hours while they made changes to adjust during the pandemic. Jessica started using the food pantry for the first time ever to help keep the family fed. She usually pays her rent first every month, but she missed two rent payments before coming to see us at Community Action Center.

Families like Jessica’s were able to stay afloat in 2020 thanks to YOUR flexible funding for Community Action Center’s housing and food programs. We are helping families catch up on rent, mortgage, and utility payments so they can stay in their homes. We are coming alongside families to keep their own and their children’s bellies full of healthy foods. THANK YOU!

To support this work, go to www.cacwhitman.org/donate

Thank You Funding Partners!

• Avista Foundation • College Hill • Digilent • Good Deeds Mortgage • Group Health Foundation • Innovia Foundation • Kappa Alpha Theta • METER Foundation • P1FCU • P1FCU Lewiston • Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity • Proformance Physical Therapy • Pullman McDonald's • Schweitzer Engineering Lab. Inc. • Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, • Social Venture Partners • Steffens Foundation c/o

Northern Trust • SYG Nursery & Landscaping, Inc. • The Harrison Fund • United Way Of Pullman • U.S. Bank Foundation • Washington Federal Foundation • Washington Trust Bank • WSECU Pullman • 496 Individual Donors • 181 Pullman Serves it Forward

Donors

Community Food

We are taking food donations by appointment! We humbly ask our generous community members to call the front desk (509-3349147) to make an appointment to donate food. We still encourage monetary donations. Your dollar will go farther in buying food than if you spend it yourself at the store! Please donate at: https://www.

cacwhitman.org/donate/

We need the following donations:

• Peanut butter • Boxed meals • Canned meat • Canned fruit • Soup • Dietary restriction foods (gluten-free, sugar-free, lowsodium, vegan, etc.) • Diaper wipes

You can bring donations to 350 SE Fairmont Road in Pullman weekdays from 8:00-4:00 (closed for lunch 12:00-1:00). To donate, please come to the parking lot, call the front desk, and we will have a staff member come to your car to take the donation.

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

(note the change!)

THURSDAY FRIDAY FOOD PANTRY

Closed

Closed

11 am – 1:00 pm

BREAD ROOM

8 am – 4:30 pm 8 am –– 4:30 pmPlease note our Free Room is 8 am – 4:30pmnow closed due

to COVID-19

8 am – 6:00 pm regulations. 8 am – 4:30 pm