Merrimack Valley Food Bank Help Us... Help Others 735 Broadway Street Lowell, MA 01854 T: 978.454.7272 F: 978.454.1717
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Our Hunger Heroes

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We gladly accept checks and money orders:

Merrimack Valley Food Bank
P.O. Box 8638
Lowell, MA 01853

Physical Address:
735 Broadway Street
Lowell, MA 01854

Make a gift in honor of someone celebrating their
wedding or anniversary, graduation or birthday gift
or donate in memory of a loved one.

Donate your car to benefit the Food Bank

Below are examples of partnerships that help us continue
providing food to families in our community:

Sponsorships:
Be an official Food Bank sponsor!


Grants:
Philanthropic organizations, including foundations, trusts and corporate giving programs provide monetary support to our operation.
Funders include:
— 3M Corporation
— Ash Charitable Corporation
— Aubert Fay Foundation
— Bank of America Charitable Foundation
— Baystate Federal Credit Union
— Alice Bean Trust
— Bristol Myers Squibb
— C.R. Bard Foundation, Inc.
— Charles A. Farnsworth Charitable Trust
— Charlotte Home Foundation
— Citizen’s Bank Charitable Foundation
— Community Development Block Grant - Lowell
— Demoulas Foundation
— Deval Patrick/Tim Murray Inaugural Fund
— Digital Federal Credit Union
— Donahue Family Trust
— Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
— Evangelical Lutheran Church of America’s Domestic Hunger Program
— Enterprise Bank and Trust
— Frederick Weber Charities
— General Mills Corporation
— GE Employees’ Good Neighbor Fund
— George & Alice Rich Foundation
— Gillette
— Greater Lowell Community Foundation
— Hannaford Supermarkets
— Hanson Fund
— Highland Street Foundation
— Lenny Zakim Fund
— Louis Cox Foundation
— M/A-COM Federal Credit Union
— MA/COM Technology Solutions, Inc.
— Margaret Collins Foundation
— Medtronic Foundation
— Mifflin
— Millipore
— Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico, LLP
— Nathaniel and Elizabeth Stevens Foundation
— Philips Medical Systems
— Proctor and Gamble
— Project Bread – the Walk for Hunger
— Roy A. Hunt Foundation
— TD BankNorth
— TJX Foundation
— United Way Massachusetts Bay/Merrimack Valley
— UPS
— Welch’s

Capital Support:
Grants that are designated toward projects that increase our capacity.
— 2009 Basement Expansion Project major funders:
    Fidelity Foundation
    Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation
    Theodore Edson Parker Foundation
— 2007 Freezer Replacement Project major funders:
    Fidelity Foundation
    Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund
— 2005 Truck Replacement Project, Video Surveillance System major funder:
    Agnes Lindsay Trust
— 2004, 2008 Warehouse Office Renovation Project major funder:
    George A. Ramlose Foundation

In Kind Sponsorship:
Special projects completed for the Food Bank and its programs.
Examples include web design, photography (Jay Foley, Creativist Photography), and marketing materials (Anastas Advertising Associates, Inc.)

YOU can be a Hunger Hero!
We appreciate food donations throughout the year, and food drive activities.
Check the Volunteer Page for specific projects.

Ladies of Harley (Merrimack Valley Hog, Inc.) Five Star
Comcast Silver Platter/Fast Food
Life Technologies/Applied Bio Systems Fast Food/Silver Platter/Gourmet
Sun Microsystems Silver Platter/Fast Food
Radio Waves, Inc. Gourmet
New England Predators Youth Hockey Team Fast Food/Gourmet
XOS Technologies Fast Food
Watts Water Technology Silver Platter/Fast Food
Lowell Spinners Baseball Fast Food/Five Star Dining
Lowell Devils Hockey Silver Platter/Fast Food
Toxicon Fast Food
The Timberland Company Silver Platter
Raytheon Company Fast Food
Billerica - IDS Project and Portfolio Team Cookbook Sale Project
Montech, Inc. Five Star Dining
Salary.com Fast Food/Gourmet
Target of Lowell Fast Food
National Amusements Fast Food
National Grid Fast Food/Gourmet
Liberty Mutual Gourmet
The Travelers Company Gourmet
MetLife Fast Food/Gourmet with $$/hams
Middlesex Community College Silver Platter/Fast Food
UML Silver Platter/Fast Food
Trinity EMS Gourmet
PrideSTAR EMS Fast Food

Major Food Donors:
The Plenus Group (Formerly Boston Chowda)
Bimbo Bakery, Woburn, MA
Sinco Foods, Belmont, MA
Stonyfield Yogurt, Londonderry, NH
Jafco Foods, Wilmington, MA
Frito Lay, Wilmington, MA
Por Shun Dairy, Wilmington, MA
Wheetabix, Clinton, MA
Hans Kissle, Haverhill, MA

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Millie* got laid off from her union job 7 months ago and her husband Bob works 2 jobs, but there's still not enough money coming in.
Their only child, Jennifer, hopes to attend community college in the fall, but the family is forced to choose which bills to pay each month. Late payments have led to higher balances on their accounts, and they feel like they'll never get out of debt. They get food once a month at the Dracut Food Pantry, freeing up some of their income for car insurance, mortgage, electric and other monthly bills. By providing this basic necessity of food to the family, the Dracut Pantry helps Bob, Millie and Jennifer move forward with their lives and get back on their feet sooner than they would otherwise.
The Dracut Food Pantry has been a member of the Food Bank since it opened in October 2008 and provides food to over 100 families each month. The Pantry and the Food Bank conduct a “Pantry Raid” neighborhood food drive in Dracut and other surrounding communities.
*Not their real names, but actual consumers of a local food pantry
Call Debbie Callery at 978-454-7272 or e-mail dcallery@mvfb.org for more information.
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