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CROS Ministries // This Week! November 10,
2015
A weekly update especially for CROS Liaisons, Board Members, Friends, and Volunteers
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Advocacy Corner
TAKE ACTION: Help Feed Children.
This year, Congress must re-authorize the law that sets funding and policy for our country's child nutrition programs, including school meals, summer feeding, and the WIC nutrition program for pregnant and new mothers along with their small children. All of these programs have helped millions of children over the decades. Contact your congressional leader and urge their support of child nutrition programs.
Click here for more information:
http://www.bread.org/write-congress
Scroll down to "Child Nutrition" and if you want to email your representatives, select "Take Action on this Issue."
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The new volunteer shirts are here!
Please let your program director know
if you want one. $5.
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CROS Ministries in your
Wills and Estate Planning
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The Caring Kitchen
Community Food Pantries
After School Snack Program
Nutrition in a Knapsack
Summer Camp
Gleaning and Food Recovery
Community Advocacy
CROS Ministries
301 First Avenue South
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
www.crosministries.org
For information about volunteering, please contact Juanita Bryant Goode at (561) 233-9009 x105 or [email protected]
If you would like to make a donation to CROS Ministries,
click here
or contact Gibbie Nauman, Director of Development and Community Relations at 561-233-9009 ext. 106 or
[email protected].
Click here for a PDF of the
Fall Newsletter. If you are currently getting our newsletter by mail and wish to receive it electronically, please email Gibbie Nauman at
[email protected]
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People on SNAP just need to get a job.
Reality
As the nation's unemployment rate hovers at 9%, SNAP provides a vital lifeline so that people and their families can eat while they search for work. In fact, this important and effective program is designed to expand and contract in relation to unemployment - in other words, for caseloads to rise as une
mployment rises and fall as the economy recovers. 40% of households receiving SNAP benefits have at least one working person.
Read My Year On Foodstamps.
"Hunger can be a positive motivator" - Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-MO)
Reality
There is no doubt that hungry people would rather not be hungry and may try to do everything they can to avoid it in the future. But that same hunger also hinders their ability to take such action.
Being hungry can be all-consuming and distracting, which in turn decreases productivity in working adults, and negatively impacts unemployed people's ability to get jobs.
And for children, chronic hunger has devastating effects, impacting their physical development, and making it nearly impossible to learn. In both the short and long term, having a substantial population of hungry people - be they adults or children - impedes the country's economic prosperity for everyone.
Government programs enable lazy people to live well on society's dime.
Reality
Receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) hardly enables anyone to live well.
The average benefit equates to roughly $1.40 per person per meal. And in most cases, the money runs out before the month ends - typically after only three weeks - forcing families to rely on charity to eat. Government programs like SNAP are designed to ensure that people receive the sustenance they need so they can contribute back to society and get off these programs.
How productive could we expect anyone to be if they haven't eaten for days or weeks or longer?
SNAP is rife with waste, fraud and abuse.
Reality
SNAP has one of the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program. States must conduct regular "quality control" reviews of SNAP case files to ensure that benefits are accurately distributed.
And ongoing improvements to regulate the program have kept fraud and abuse to a historic low of less than 2%. The truth is that the overwhelming majority of SNAP recipients follow the rules because they desperately need help ensuring their family has food to eat.
For more hunger myths from Mazon, a Jewish Response to Hunger,
click here.
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Raise Your Glass to End Hunger Event
Now recruiting committee members for our signature Spring Event, Raise Your Glass to End Hunger Event taking place on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. Raise Your Glass to End Hunger is a beer and wine event with food pairings from local restaurants. Committee members are needed to assist with securing sponsors and live/silent auction items. Interested?
Please contact Gibbie Nauman at 561-233-9009 x106 or [email protected].
Community Food Pantry - Indiantown
Volunteers needed Tuesday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Must be able to lift and bend and pickup 20-25 pounds. Please contact Jeanette Hemphill for more details at
561-707-2111.
Community Food Pantry - Belle Glade
Volunteers needed Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm. Must be able to lift and bend and pickup 20-25 pounds. Please contact Mayra Echenique for more details at 561-755-2495 or
[email protected].
CROS Warehouse
A warehouse volunteer needed to help with picking up food from Palm Beach County Food Bank in Lantana on Tuesday mornings. Must be able to do a lot of lifting and bending, at least 20 -25 pounds at a time, and be okay driving a truck.
Please contact Danielle Devine at 561-271-1566 or [email protected] for more information.
Warehouse Volunteers needed to lift heavy loads (30 to 65 pounds) and assist other CROS storage volunteers loading, unloading trucks, and delivering to CROS Food Pantries. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 am - Noon.
Sorting Groups
Sorting groups needed to sort food at CROS' warehouse located at 4166 S Military Trail, Lake Worth at Lake Worth Storage. Must be able to do a lot of lifting and bending, lifting at least 20 -25 pounds at a time. Monday-Friday from 9:30 am- 11:30 am or longer and weekends too.
Community Food Pantry - Riviera Beach
Volunteers needed Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. Must be able to lift and bend and pickup 20-25 pounds.
PLEASE NOTE:
This food pantry is located at the Port Center building and is housed in the same location as the Department of Children and Families and the Palm Beach County
Sheriff's
Department.
Caring Kitchen - Delray Beach
Traffic Director
A volunteer is needed to direct cars to proper parking areas during peak meal times. Shift time is approximately 11:15 am - 12:20 pm.
Shut in Meal Drivers
Monday and Wednesday time commitment approximately 2 hours one day per week. Background check and driver check mandatory. After training delivery time is flexible anytime between 10:30 am - 1:00 pm.
Weekday Van Drivers
Wednesday and Tuesday: Approximately 4 hours one day per week to make regularly scheduled stops and occasional random pick-ups. Drivers will be trained and must pass driver background check.
Weekly Office Volunteer
Once weekly, any weekday, to complete thank you letters.
Once monthly, to complete statistic gathering for the Caring Kitchen in Delray Beach. Good Excel knowledge a necessity.
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lease contact April Hazamy at
Meal Preparation & Serving
Any day Monday through Friday from 9 am to 1 pm. Duties include preparing lunch with other volunteers, serving and cleaning up.
Office Volunteer
Any day Monday through Friday from 9 am to 1 pm. Duties include answering phones, filing, helping with mailings, and light computer work in MS Word/Excel.
Clothing Boutique Volunteer
Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am to 1 pm, we need volunteers to help with sorting, folding, and labeling donations.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 am to 1 pm, we need volunteers to help with sorting, folding, etc. as well as distribution of the clothing.
Please contact Nadege Joliceour at [email protected] or 561-278-0918
for more information.
Nutrition in a Knapsack - Jupiter
Food Bag Delivery
Volunteers needed to deliver the containers filled with food bags to Jupiter Elementary, Thursdays from 9:30 am - 10:30 am or so. Volunteers need to have a four door car or SUV. You can help once a month or more.
Food Bag Distribution
Volunteers needed to distribute the food bags to the children at Jupiter Elementary, Fridays from 8:00 am -
9:30 am or so. A background check is required.
Nutrition in a Knapsack - Delray Beach
Food Bag Delivery
Volunteers needed to deliver and distribute the containers with food bags to Pine Grove Elementary in Delray. It would be on Fridays from 8:45 am to 10 am or so. Need to have a four door car or SUV. You can help once a month or more. If interested please contact Juanita Bryant Goode
at
[email protected]
or 561-233-9009 x105.
Lake Worth Office Volunteer
Any day Monday through Friday from 9 am to 1 pm. Duties include filing, helping with mailings, light computer work in MS Word/Excel, and other special projects.
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Want to make a difference locally? You can in 4 hours a week!
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) is a national program staffed by local volunteers to provide free tax preparation and e-filing of returns to qualified taxpayers. The VITA Program is an invaluable service United Way of Palm Beach County has been providing to the community for the past twelve years. It targets individuals and families with low-to-moderate incomes who are eligible for tax credits. The program has prepared more than 106,000 tax returns yielding over $167 million in refunds and providing an estimated $250 million economic impact for Palm Beach County.
Volunteers are the key to the VITA Program's success.* As we enter the program's thirteenth year of service, United Way needs your help recruiting 200 volunteers in December and early January. Tax season is January through April 2016. No experience is required and there are opportunities that don't involve preparing taxes.
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Kids & Cops Event
Saturday, December 5
Pleasant City Youth Empowerment Center
This event is to build and improve relationships between our young men and law enforcement. Please have them dress comfortably because they will be participating in athletic activities with the cops. We are asking their parents to attend as well because there will be workshops offered.
Community service hours will be offered if they attend. Food will be served as well.
Please
click here
for the event.
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| Mission: CROS Ministries serves the hungry in Palm Beach and Martin Counties through community collaborations. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT TO SOCIETY, INC., A FLORIDA-BASED NONPROFIT CORPORATION (REGISTRATION NO. CH20251), MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-800-HELP-FLA (435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE OR VISITING THEIR WEBSITE, WWW.FRESHFROMFLORIDA.COM. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY STATE. 501 (C) TAX EXEMPT #59-1802917. CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT TO SOCIETY, INC. RECEIVES 100% OF EACH CONTRIBUTION, WITH 0% GIVEN TO A PROFESSIONAL SOLICITOR. |
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