Siskiyou Food Assistance

YOUR DONATION IS MEANINGFUL BECAUSE...

* This event is a major source of revenue for SFA to meet the increased costs of food and fuel for weekly distributions.

* SFA aims to provide prayer and nutritious options where clients can choose from a “pick list” of available items rather than simply receiving a bag of random shelf items from the pantry. This makes for LESS WASTE and gives direct feedback to the organization on items most needed by clients. With your donations, we can offer more selections.

* We rely on the support of individuals, churches, businesses, volunteers and caring individuals. In the past year, SFA has served over 900 families in eight communities. 41% of our clients reside in Weed, 25% in Montague, 17% in Mount Shasta, 9% in Dunsmuir, 3% in McCloud, 2% each in Dorris and Gazelle and 1% in Macdoel. 

* As part of our vision to reduce the dependence on assistance programs in our region, SFA has secured grant funding to bring financial literacy curriculum to local high schools and partnered with a health ministry garden project to inspire friends, neighbors and community to start manageable gardens of their own.

* Executive Director, Denise Spayd, is retiring after over 13 years of leadership in SFA and the board has created a special campaign as part of NSGT to honor her years of service. All donations go towards the purchase of food for the pantry.

Our most immediate need during this year's Giving Tuesday campaign is to raise cash for the purchase of fresh produce and the means to make home deliveries to those who have limited transportation to get to our food pantry.  

The food we distribute comes from a variety of sources beyond that of our direct purchases made with your cash donations. The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints donates a significant amount of non-perishable canned foods. We are grateful for several annual food drives sponsored by local businesses and organizations. Keep an eye out for them to make it easy for you to donate canned food that we will get to those in need. Seasonal garden yields and fruit tree gleaning also contribute to nutritious options for our clients.

We are grateful to the Weed Union Elementary School District for our Pantry location. With a long-term agreement now in place, we can be assured to use their annex building as our office and location for food distribution at a very low cost for the foreseeable future.

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Please help us with a donation to continue this incredible journey and to honor Denise Spayd who retires as Executive Director at year's end!  Thank you!