12271 Townsend Rd.
1. Cook - cook an extra portion of your meal and freeze it
immediately - we supply the trays, menu sheets, and plastic
bags
2. Visitor - you choose the person you would like to visit
and bring seven home-cooked meals (prepared by the cooks)
to the same client/friend, each and every week.
3. Driver -- we desperately need drivers to bring supplies
to our 300 sites and to sometimes move meals from our
office - warehouse site to another site that has run short
of meals.
4. Contributors - we need individual contributors, organizations,
businesses, and charitable foundations - to help us meet the
financial obligations necessary to run Aid For Friends. Please
be aware that because of our wonderful volunteer network of cooks
who use their own food, visitors and drivers who use their own
cars and gas, and countless other volunteers who work in the
office, warehouse, maintain the building and the grounds and
perform a myriad of other tasks, every $1.00 contributed
translated into $6.22 of direct services to our wonderful
client/friends.
This is a Philabundance Food Bank member agency. See record:
Sat Feb 02 17:18:10 +0000 2008 by LTel:mission: Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins,
primarily the frail elderly, in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia
area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by
empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins
with free out reach services. The goal is to help our homebound "client/friends" maintain their cherished independence
by supporting their determination to remain in their own homes
for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life. -> Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy,
isolated shut-ins, primarily the frail elderly,
in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia area, with
free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by
empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide
shut-ins with free out reach services. The goal
is to help our homebound "client/friends" maintain
their cherished independence by supporting their
determination to remain in their own homes for as
long as possible and to enhance their quality of life.
(show/hide changes)Sat Feb 02 17:15:04 +0000 2008 by LTel:mission: Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins,
primarily the frail elderly, in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia
area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins with free out
reach services. The goal is to help our homebound "client/friends"
maintain their cherished independence by supporting their determination
to remain in their own homes for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life.
-> Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins,
primarily the frail elderly, in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia
area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by
empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins
with free out reach services. The goal is to help our homebound "client/friends" maintain their cherished independence
by supporting their determination to remain in their own homes
for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life.
(show/hide changes)Sat Feb 02 17:10:43 +0000 2008 by LTel:name: Aid for Friends -> Aid for Friends Frail Elderly Outreach Center
(show/hide changes)Sat Feb 02 17:09:52 +0000 2008 by LTel:notes: This is a Philabundance Food Bank member agency. See record:
http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/2777 -> (FROM THE WEBSITE)
Who We Are & What We Do:
We are 16,000 volunteers - from all walks of life, from
just about every religious orientation, color, creed and
economic status. We live in every corner of the 5
County Greater Philadelphia area -just like you,
Since our inception in 1974 - we have steadily grown day
by day year by year - one volunteer at a time. We
initially served 11 people - today we serve over 2000,
providing each one with 7 free, home-cooked meals and
an hour of friendly visiting each week (over 13
million free meals, and thousands and thousand of
compassionate, friendly visits in the past 33 years)
We would love to have you join us as a:
1. Cook - cook an extra portion of your meal and freeze it
immediately - we supply the trays, menu sheets, and plastic
bags
2. Visitor - you choose the person you would like to visit
and bring seven home-cooked meals (prepared by the cooks)
to the same client/friend, each and every week.
3. Driver -- we desperately need drivers to bring supplies
to our 300 sites and to sometimes move meals from our
office - warehouse site to another site that has run short
of meals.
4. Contributors - we need individual contributors, organizations,
businesses, and charitable foundations - to help us meet the
financial obligations necessary to run Aid For Friends. Please
be aware that because of our wonderful volunteer network of cooks
who use their own food, visitors and drivers who use their own
cars and gas, and countless other volunteers who work in the
office, warehouse, maintain the building and the grounds and
perform a myriad of other tasks, every $1.00 contributed
translated into $6.22 of direct services to our wonderful
client/friends.
We must raise out entire budget of $1,098,000(one million
ninety-eight thousand dollars) every year because all that
we do for our disabled frail elderly homebound is free.-
Free daily meals, supplemental food, all 16 ancillary projects
to support our shut ins and enhance their quality of their lives.
----------------------------------------------------------
This is a Philabundance Food Bank member agency. See record:
http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/2777
(show/hide changes)Sat Feb 02 17:06:39 +0000 2008 by LTel:Website/Philabundance website
main_phone: -> (215) 464-2224
notes: Philabundance is the region’s largest food rescue organization. In fiscal 2006, we distributed 26 million pounds of food. We serve low income residents at risk of hunger and malnutrition, of which 23% are children and 16% are senior citizens.
Philabundance distributes food through a network of more than 600 member agencies throughout the Delaware Valley. These agencies include food cupboards, neighborhood distributions, shelters, emergency kitchens and various social service agencies with special programs such as daycares and senior centers.
The agencies serve people in need in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in PA, and in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer and Salem counties in NJ.
Currently, Philabundance distributes food to member agencies through the following distribution systems:
*Orders for items on the weekly Philabundance Food Bank menu that can be delivered or picked up at the Berks location.
*Items picked up from the Walk Through shopping area at the Berks location.
*Produce delivered weekly.
*Produce picked up from local hub distributions.
Member agencies pay shared maintenance as well as delivery fees for the food they receive from the Food Bank. Agencies may also apply for the Produce Program to either receive a weekly delivery or come to a produce hub distribution; the Produce Program is free and agencies that apply are added to a waitlist for the next available space.
In 2005, Philabundance integrated with the Philadelphia Food Bank to become the region's largest nonprofit hunger relief organization. Today, Philabundance offers a full plate of services to Delaware Valley residents at risk of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
Philabundance provides food if and when a disaster strikes. During the Hurricane Katrina aftermath Philabundance was the fourth largest provider of food to the Gulf. -> This is a Philabundance Food Bank member agency. See record:
http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/2777
organization: Food Pantry -> Elderly Outreach Center
website: http://www.philabundance.org/ -> http://www.aidforfriends.org/
client_contact_name: Philabundance ->
client_contact_address: 3616 South Galloway Street • PO Box 37555 • Philadelphia, PA 19148 ->
client_contact_phone: (215) 339-0900 ->
areas_served: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in PA; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer and Salem counties in NJ. ->
mission: Philabundance works to end hunger and malnutrition in the Delaware Valley by acquiring food and distributing it through organizations serving people in need. -> Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins,
primarily the frail elderly, in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia
area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins with free out
reach services. The goal is to help our homebound "client/friends"
maintain their cherished independence by supporting their determination
to remain in their own homes for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life.
cat_notes: ->
(show/hide changes)Thu Dec 20 18:51:54 +0000 2007 by RMcG:parish: Bucks, Chester, Deleware, Montgomery & Philadelphia in PA; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer & Salem in NJ -> Philadelphia
region: -> Delaware Valley
(show/hide changes)Tue Dec 18 22:49:59 +0000 2007 by RMcG:parish: -> Bucks, Chester, Deleware, Montgomery & Philadelphia in PA; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer & Salem in NJ
(show/hide changes)Tue Dec 18 22:17:26 +0000 2007 by RMcG:organization: -> Food Pantry
(show/hide changes)Sat Dec 15 04:01:03 +0000 2007 by RMcG:areas_served: -> Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in PA; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer and Salem counties in NJ.
(show/hide changes)Sat Dec 15 02:46:57 +0000 2007 by RMcG:(show/hide changes)(hide history)
