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HOW TO SUPPORT SUDBURY RESIDENTS DURING COVID-19 FROM THE SUDBURY TOWN SOCIAL WORKER

https://sudbury.ma.us/…/ways-to-support-sudbury-residents-…/

Visit the Board of Health website for frequent updates. Beware of scams. Research and be thoughtful before donating goods or money to ensure legitimacy.

VOLUNTEERING:
NEIGHBOR BRIGADE: Onboarding volunteers to deliver groceries and other needed items.https://www.neighborbrigade.org/ Scroll down on website and click on “Volunteer” icon.

SUDBURY SENIOR CENTER: Currently in need of volunteers to deliver groceries, but there is potential for future volunteer opportunities as well. Please email Janet Lipkin, Volunteer Coordinator, at LipkinJ@sudbury.ma.us

Connect with your clergy for other opportunities.

GIFT CARDS & FINANCIAL DONATIONS:

HOPESUDBURY: The Sudbury Board of Health Social Work Office is working with HOPEsudbury to collect and donate gift cards to those without other access to resources.

Gift cards for places that deliver (grocery, pharmacy, large box stores, online retailers, restaurants) and debit gift cards to help pay bills are most helpful.

Mail or drop off gift cards to: Melissa Perla, 35 Shadow Oak Drive Sudbury, MA 01776. If dropping off cards, please email Melissa with expected drop off time at: mhulse88@gmail.com

HOPEsudbury also provides emergency financial support by directly paying bills for those in need in Sudbury.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL – ST. ANSELM CONFERENCE: Provides emergency financial support by directly paying bills for those in need. They also connect residents with concrete goods and resources when they are able. Donate via check: 100 Landham Road, Sudbury, MA 01776. Donate via Paypal: svdp.stanselm@gmail.com

BLOOD DRIVES:

AMERICAN RED CROSS is facing a severe blood shortage and has a list of donation sites. To schedule a new blood drive: contact Bill Forsyth at (617) 699-3808 or email Forsyth@redcross.org.

First Baptist Church Blood Drives: Click here to view upcoming dates and make an appointment.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)

EMERSON HOSPITAL: Requests for goggles, medical gowns, hand sanitizer, and masks (including homemade following provided patterns).

Thanks to Bethany Hadvab and the Sudbury Board of Healthy for compiling these and other resource lists:

COVID-19 Resource Guide: https://sudbury.ma.us/socialworker/2020/03/26/comprehensive-covid-19-resource-guide/

COVID-19  Infomration & Updates: https://sudbury.ma.us/health/2020/03/29/coronavirus/

Posted on March 29, 2020

Resources: Keeping Up with COVID-19

In light of COVID-19, the world is very different today than just last week. It’s important to keep up to date with what’s going on without being overloaded or overwhelmed.  We plan to provide links to useful resources in this space and we hope to keep them relevant and timely. These resources are constantly changing so check back often to see if they are still active. If you have other resources to suggest, please don’t hesitate to send them along to us. In the meantime, please stay safe and keep your social distance.

Mass. Nonprofit Network
(Lots of links on the virus, policy updates, resources and guidance for nonprofits)

COVID-19 Resources from Sudbury Town Social Worker

MetroWest Resources from Sen. Karen Spilka’s Office 

MA Dept. of Public Health

Center for Disease Control

Network of Care Massachusetts
(Mental health and substance abuse resources)

Other Resources for nonprofit clients from Foundation for MetroWest

Re-Opening: Things to Consider from the MetroWest Health Foundation

Funding Opportunities for MetroWest Nonprofits

MetroWest Emergency Relief Fund from Foundation for MetroWest

Feed Framingham COVID-19 Fund from Foundation for MetroWest

COVID-19 Emergency Grants from the MetroWest Health Foundation

 

Funds to Donate to:

Philanthropy Massachusetts list of Diasater and Emergency Relief Funds   

Foundation for MetroWest has created two new Funds: the MetroWest Emergency Relief Fund and the Feed Framingham COVID-19 Fund

Updated on April 14, 2020

 

Sprucing Up The Grange

The members of the Sudbury Wayside Quilters Guild are kindly loaning us these beautiful quilts to decorate the Community Meeting Room at the Grange Hall. Aren’t they lovely?

A couple of times a year, the members get together to make these special “Comfort Quilts” which are then donated to those in need.

The Quilters plan to rotate the Grange “exhibit” every few months. Our thanks to the Quilters!

     

Grant brings Lovin’ Spoonfuls to MW

A coalition of local funders – the MetroWest Health Foundation; the Sudbury Foundation; Middlesex Savings Charitable Eat Fresh Jane & TinaFoundation; and the Foundation for MetroWest – are partnering to bring more fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains to the pantries and tables of those most in need in our communities. Over the next three years, these four organizations have pledged more than a quarter of a million dollars to support the expansion of Lovin’ Spoonfuls, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the gap between abundance and need.

The three-year grant of nearly $275,000 will allow Lovin’ Spoonfuls to bring their proven food rescue model to food pantries and shelters in the MetroWest region.

“Each of the funders participating in this project has a long history of providing support for hunger programs in the region. This grant will further those efforts by working to make fresh fruits, vegetables, and other products available in a more organized and responsive way,” said Martin Cohen, president of the MetroWest Health Foundation.

In communities known for great affluence and beauty, it may come as a surprise to many that organizations like Lovin’ Spoonfuls are necessary. But suburban hunger is real, and it must be addressed. Together, we are working towards a future where neighbors in need have safe, supportive, and well-stocked places to go when consistently putting healthy food on the table becomes challenging.

While there are 700,000 food insecure residents in Massachusetts, and 20,000 MetroWest kids who rely on free or reduced school lunches,  there is no lack of food—in fact, there is abundance.

“Picture the Rose Bowl, fill it up with fresh produce and set it on fire. That’s the rate that we waste food in this country every day,” Lovin’ Spoonfuls Founder Ashley Stanley said last week at a Panel Talk: “Hunger in MetroWest, ” hosted by the Foundation for MetroWest. “And yet, local food pantries are struggling to stock their shelves. The divide between abundance and need is great, but we can change that.”

Efforts like those of Lovin’ Spoonfuls help bridge the divide by connecting people in need to the bounty of unused food that exists in our communities.

Food programs are ready to take in more fresh food. Joanne Barry, executive director of A Place to Turn in Natick said, “A Place to Turn is thrilled to hear that local foundations will be funding Lovin’ Spoonfuls in our area as they have a proven record of encouraging businesses and other food establishments to donate food that is currently going to waste. This new collaboration will absolutely result in more food delivered to organizations like ours that can then distribute it immediately to people in need in our community.”

Read the MetroWest Daily News article here.

Photo courtesy of A Place to Turn
Posted October 15, 2015

Preserving Pantry Brook Farm

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The Sudbury Foundation has committed $175,000 to the effort to protect historic Pantry Brook Farm. This grant will help the Town of Sudbury and Sudbury Valley Trustees purchase a conservation restriction (CR) on the privately-owned 94-acre farm, located on Concord Road just north of the high school. Pantry Brook Farm has been a top priority for preservation by both the Town and SVT for decades.

With its rolling pastures, ancient stone walls, spectacular views, and picturesque farm buildings, Pantry Brook Farm is an iconic reminder of Sudbury’s agrarian history. In addition, the property boasts habitat for a state-listed endangered species, and it connects to over 2,000 acres of federal, state, and local conservation land.

“Pantry Brook Farm rings every conservation bell,” said Ron McAdow, SVT’s executive director. “Community character, productive agricultural land, and important wildlife habitat. We are grateful that Carole and Dick Wolfe are giving Sudbury the opportunity to permanently protect this wonderful landscape.”

According to Sudbury Foundation Trustee Chair Susan Iuliano, “This grant acknowledges our support for this important effort to conserve what is not only a high priority open space parcel for the Town but also one of the most beautiful tracks of land in Sudbury. With this restriction, the land will remain protected forever.”

Sudbury voters will decide at the Annual Town Meeting commencing on May 7th whether to commit $7.76 million of Community Preservation funds toward the $7.91 million purchase. The Sudbury Foundation Grant and other private donations being sought by SVT are needed to cover transaction costs and to establish a permanent stewardship endowment for the conservation restriction. The CR will be jointly held by SVT and the Town, with SVT assuming responsibility for annual monitoring of the property.

The historical buildings on the property will not fall within the area covered by the conservation restriction, but landowners Carole and Dick Wolfe plan to restore them and place them under a historical preservation restriction at a later date.

“Tax-deductible contributions to the effort to protect Pantry Brook Farm can be made by visiting SVT’s website at http://www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org/donate-pantry-brook-farm or by mailing in a gift to our headquarters at 18 Wolbach Road, Sudbury, MA 01776,” according to Christa Collins, SVT Director of Land Protection.

Posted April 30, 2012

Sudbury’s Gem of a Food Pantry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Sudbury Food Pantry’s Pat Mullen (left) tells Sara Barker all about the Pantry during the HOPEsudbury Telethon on November 5, 2011.

A great and timely profile on Channel 5/WCVB of one of Sudbury’s little gems – The Sudbury Community Food Pantry

The all-volunteer, choice pantry has been serving Sudbury and surrounding communities since 1990. It’s located in the basement of Our Lady of Fatima Church on 160 Concord Road and is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m.

Some facts about our Food Pantry:

  • More than 3,000 families a year visit the Sudbury pantry
  • 10 percent of recipients are Sudbury residents, the rest come from a variety of communities, not just abutting towns
  • No referral letter or proof of need is required
  • An estimated 70 volunteers run the pantry

Donations come from individuals, houses of worship, community organizations and scouts. Sudbury Public School children donate 40 to 45 percent of the goods.

This is the time of year when pantry need is great, more so this year because of the challenging economy.

Why not drop off a bag of groceries in Sudbury or at a food pantry near you? Click here for a list of local pantries.

Posted November 9, 2011