#GivingTuesdayNow: now more than ever, we are called upon to make a difference
Posted on May 4, 2020
FCCMP is partnered with #GivingTuesdayNow a global day of giving and unity that will take place May 5 2020 as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19.
Orange Pantry day!
Posted on April 9, 2020
It’s Pantry Day at the Orange Food Pantry! We’re ready with an overflowing cooler of fruits and vegetables. Our pop up tents will provide cover from the rain. Our boxes and bags are packed and ready for distribution. Thanks to staff and volunteers who make sure that the people who […]
The Kindness Of Strangers
Posted on April 8, 2020
In these hard times it is important to help each other. And FCCMP always has wonderful helpers. Thanks to Amanda for making us masks. Thanks to Vin who dropped off a Hannaford gift card and then repaired a broken bench at the Orange Pantry. Thanks to Representative Whipps for delivering […]
#GivingTuesdayNow on May 5th, 2020
Posted on March 31, 2020
FCCMP relies on the generous donations of all our donors and patrons, in order to continue our mission of feeding our community, even in the face of a local – and global – pandemic. Giving Tuesday, the annual event that spotlights work like ours and appeals to the community to […]
St. Paul’s Lutheran offers food
Posted on March 22, 2020
Thanks to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Greenfield for offering us now the food they usually pack into brown bags as part of the Brown Bag Brigade. With everyone practicing social distancing, they wouldn’t be able to assemble and deliver the bags as they normally would. Now we can make […]
Orange Food Pantry drive-thru food pickup
Posted on March 19, 2020
The Orange Food Pantry was open today and saw its usual amount of people. In spite of yucky weather and the Coronavirus, our crew of staff and volunteers rearranged the delivery of food by maintaining the necessary social distance. Cars drove up, intake was done with people through car windows […]
Hadley’s 110 Grill helps distribute food
Posted on March 17, 2020
Many thanks to the good folks of 110 Grill on Russell Street in Hadley for helping distribute food.
FCCMP Coronavirus Response
Posted on March 13, 2020
Franklin County Community Meals Program is committed to our mission to work in partnership with the community to alleviate hunger even during the current coronavirus crisis.
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3 days ago
These days it feels like everything is in constant flux. But one thing remains the same; the constant care of our community.
Here at FCCMP we are working to reshape our meal site model to make sense in these Covid times. For the month of September we are sponsoring Brad's Place. Volunteer
groups can now work with local restaurants to help cater a meal, feeding people in need while also keeping local restaurants in business.
Starting in October we will be back in the kitchen cooking to go meals for our community. If you’ve cooked a meal for us before or want to get involved in the fun, contact us to find out more about the new normal at our Greenfield Meal Site and how you can get involved.
Pictured: Dan Devine hard at work
3 days ago
The Orange Food Pantry re-opened for walk in at the beginning of September after months of drive thru only. We are slowly but surely adapting to the new normal.
Come by every Thursday from 10-3. Any and all are welcome. Call 9785442149 for any questions or to request a delivery.
1 week ago
"A shadow of hunger looms over the United States. In the pandemic economy, nearly one in eight households doesn’t have enough to eat. The lockdown, with its epic lines at food banks, has revealed what was hidden in plain sight: that the struggle to make food last long enough, and to get food that’s healthful — what experts call ‘food insecurity’ — is a persistent one for millions of Americans."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/magazine/food-insecurity-hunger-us.html
www.nytimes.com
We spent months photographing dozens of families across the country to understand what food insecurity looks like today.