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The Caring Place has applied for and has been approved to participate in the State Employees Charitable Campaign (SECC) and in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). These programs run at the same time as the United Way campaigns – but are separately administered and designed specifically for federal and state employees.

Our Executive Director, John Stock, and Rita Turner, our Director of Community Engagement are available to speak at state and federal employee meetings about The Caring Place  and our mission -- as well as the many organizations that are listed in the enrollment materials for the SECC and CFC campaigns.

Employees may choose to select an organization from the approved list that they wish to support. To make it easier, all organizations have a code number. Please use and share our ID numbers with any Federal or State employees that you know who may like to designate their donation to us.

The numbers for The Caring Place are:

SECC      (State Employees Charitable Campaign):     # 224039

CFC        (Combined Federal Campaign):                     # 67874        

The Caring Place will be both supporting and benefitting from the annual CROP Walk scheduled for Sunday, October 17th in San Gabriel park.

Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from The CROP Walk remain in Georgetown, of which, The Caring Place and Meals on Wheels will each get 12.5% each. 

We need teams of people to act as recruiters to get donations and walk in the CROP Walk.  If you are interested in being a walker or having a team, please contact Rita Turner at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 869-4735 x 231.

Let's all work together to ensure we feed our neighbors in need.

Canned fruit
Fruit juice
Canned meats – especially chili (please, no tuna)
Boxed Dinners
Jelly
Toilet paper
Toiletries
 
During the period of January to June 2010, the Food Pantry at The Caring Place provided over 162,000 pounds of food to families in our community. This is only 2% short of the record set last year. We appreciate your support as together we care for our neighbors and for each other. The Caring Place also administers 3 additional annual feeding programs, plus two new summer programs in 2010. Contact us for more information.

Everybody has a hunger story. Yesterday kicked off a week-long project to share hunger stories from the perspective of Austin’s food blogging community.  The bloggers will cook with food they would receive if they were a client at a food pantry in an effort to raise awareness of the hunger crisis in Central Texas.

We sent the group a list of food items we distributed at the Reaching Out Center in Pflugerville. The bloggers then purchased those items and will write about their culinary journey.  They may also choose to supplement their grocery list with food items they would be able to purchase if they qualified for SNAP (food stamps), or were enrolled in the Women, Infants and Children program (WIC).

You can participate, too! Let us know if you’d like to blog, or you can comment on others’ blogs. We’ll list all the blog posts on our Austin Food Bloggers page.

Participating Austin Food Bloggers include: 

Addie Broyles - Relish Austin

Suzanna Cole – South Austin Foodie Blog

Summer Huggins – Something to Chew On

Lauren Kincke  - Bytes from Texas: One Longhorn’s Adventures

Dee Kincke – Texas to Mexico

Aaron Kull  - Austin Epicurean

Lisa Lawless  - Lisa is Cooking

Stephanie McClenny – The Cosmic Cowgirl

Megan Myers – STETTED editing toward a well-fed life

Nicole Ray – Savor the Earth

Han Ren and Justin Ong – Keep Austin Tasty

Alexandra Richmond – Austin is Delicious

Kim Usey – The Dinner Hour

Kristi Willis – Austin Farm to Table

Kristina Wolter – Girl Gone Grits

Thank you to the bloggers sharing their hunger stories, and a special thank you to Addie Broyles and Kristi Willis for spearheading this effort.

Have you ever thought about volunteering for the Caring Place?  We are in need of persons to assist in the following positions:  

• Electronics
• Security
• Food pantry
• Pricing
• Cashiering
• Fresh Food Mondays

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