In This Month's Update

• Legacy Donor Open House November 18th

•Our Current Needs

•IAM is Hiring!

•Thank you, MANNA Foodbank!

•Planned Giving

•Celebrating Your Generosity

•The IAM Mobile Pantry

•IAM's Current Volunteer Needs

If you give IAM $1,000 a year or more or if you want to learn more about how you can include Interfaith Assistance Ministry in your will, please drop by our

IAM

Thank You Open House

From 3 – 6 p.m. Friday, November 18^th.

IAM staff members will give tours of our vital crisis services facility at 310 Freeman Street. Several of IAM’s Planned Giving Committee members, estate attorney Adam Shealy from Gilreath Shealy Law firm and financial manager Dwayne Powell, from Baird Private Wealth Management, will be available to answer your questions about how to include IAM in your estate planning and through charitable trusts.



Hearts, Hands, & Hope Circle

You can also sign up to continue being a sustaining donor to IAM or become one by joining our Hearts, Hands & Hope (H3) Circle. Anyone who gives $1,000 or more a year and can commit to giving that much or more for three to five years will become an H3 Circle giver.

IAM will provide light appetizers and beverages for attendees. If you cannot attend Nov. 18^th, look for a letter later this month inviting you to join our H3 Circle.

Thank you for blessing IAM with your financial gifts! For more information, call Diana Spitzer at 828-697-7029.

All of us at IAM wish you and your family a happy and blessed Thanksgiving season!

We are incredibly thankful for the encouragement you provide IAM and all the compassionate support you provide to our neighbors in need!

Join the IAM Team!

IAM is seeking two new bilingual team members as Clothing Assistance Coordinator and as Driver Associate.

Click on the button below to learn more about both positions at and help us help our neighbors in need. 

Thank you, MANNA Foodbank!

IAM's partnership with MANNA FoodBank in Asheville is a blessing that helps sustain our efforts to combat food insecurity in Henderson County. And this month was even more special than usual! Jacob, Glenda, and Rose arrived with a check for $53,789, a CARES Act 2020 and 2021 pandemic expense refund. Just in time for the hectic holiday season when so many of our neighbors have extra needs.

Pictured left to right: Tommy, Tom, Karol, and Marjorie with IAM and Jacob, Glenda, and Rose with MANNA. Thank you, MANNA for all you do to support organizations like IAM throughout the region.

A valued way of supporting IAM for the long-term future, without impacting a donor's immediate cash flow, is to include IAM in your will or to name IAM as a beneficiary on a life insurance policy that is no longer needed.

Other methods of Planned Giving include Charitable Gift Annuities such as Charitable Remainder Trusts and Charitable Lead Trusts.

Consult your attorney, estate planner or the Community Foundation of Henderson County regarding these options.

Volunteers needed! Our IAM Thrift Store is looking for volunteers to be donation sorters, clothing pricers, and driver helpers to assist in donation pickups. You can volunteer as little as 4 hours per week with various shifts available. Our greatest need is for Friday afternoons and Saturdays. 

Learn more about volunteering at www.iam-hc.org/volunteer-opportunities. Or contact Amy Lewis, Volunteer Coordinator at 828.697-7029 ext. 215 or email her at volunteer.manager@iam-hc.org.

Thank you for your care and support!

Thanks to the good folks at Tuxedo First Baptist Church for assisting us at our October mobile pantry event.

IAM is grateful for the opportunity to bring food out into the community with our new mobile pantry truck and for the support of our many partners in Henderson County. Thank you!

• $5,000 & up: Provide vital support for service programs: food, financial assistance with rent, utility bills and gasoline vouchers, clothing and linens, personal hygiene and cleaning items and more 
• $2,500: Purchase enough food to feed 100 adults and children for a week 
• $1,000: Provide the security deposit on a new apartment for a single mother struggling to keep her three young children safe, fed, and succeeding in school 
• $500: Pay an elderly veteran's utility bill to keep his lights on and the heat on when it’s freezing outside 
• $250: Purchase 25 cases of diapers for new mothers struggling to make ends meet 
• $100: Provide a “Back-to School” new clothing and shoes kit for three elementary students 
• $50: Provide bed linens for a family setting up their new apartment $25 Feed a neighbor in need for a week