Over two days, November 24th and November 25th, 1000 families will come to the new Goodman Community Center for help providing a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

Community Action Coalition, United Way 211 and food pantries throughout Dane County are gearing up to collect food to support families through the winter months and specifically to provide a Thanksgiving meal.

Please donate food or money by this Friday, Nov. 21, if possible. That gives us Saturday to purchase food needed to fill in gaps, and enables us to make good use of our scheduled volunteers.

Bring donations to the Goodman Community Center Gym at 149 Waubesa St. from 9am-7pm weekdays, or 9am-3pm on Saturday.

If those hours don't work, our main reception desk is open during the week from 6am -8pm and Saturday and Sunday from 8:30am-1:30pm.

Donate online at this website via the Paypal link towards the bottom of the page. As you review your donation, designate your gift for T-baskets in "Add special instructions for the merchant".

Feeding 1,000 families requires 1,000 of each of the items below, so every can, every box, and every turkey brings us closer to our commitment of helping so many families again this year. Cash donations for the purchase of these items and perishable items are always welcome.

Inventory of Items Needed For Thanksgiving Baskets

Notes:
• As of Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m., we have zero (0) completed baskets.

• We need paper and plastic grocery bags both for the Thanksgiving Baskets and for the regular pantry.

• We have all the Jell-O and Stove Top Stuffing we need--thanks to Oscar Mayer / Kraft Foods!

Cash contributions are also needed to purchase frozen turkeys, milk, butter, eggs, potatoes, fresh sweet potatoes, celery, carrots, squash and rolls.

Food contributions are needed by Friday, November 21st.

Money Helps
We can buy food at a discount, and after you--and everyone in our community brings in tons of food, inevitably we need to add a few things here and there to balance it all out. We always need to buy turkeys, fresh vegetables, rolls, milk, and eggs.

Financial donations can be:
- mailed to the Center or brought in during our business hours of 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on weekedays,
- brought in on Saturday, November 22 when food donations are accepted
- brought in on Sunday, November 23 between noon - 5:00 pm when volunteers begin packing the food.

2006 Prices
The "How Much" and "How Many" of 1,000 Thanksgiving Baskets

Item	Woodman’s cost per item	Needed for T-Baskets
Butter	$1.69	1,000
Carrots	$.89	1,000 pounds
Celery	$1.29	1,000
Cranberry sauce	$1.39	1,000
Disposable roasting pan	$1.99	1,000
Eggs	$.76	1,000 dozen
Evaporated milk	$.99	1,000
Fruit, 2 cans	$2.18	2,000
Gravy packet	$.50	1,000
Jello	$.45	1,000
Jiffy pie crust mix	$.45	1,000
Milk, half gallon	$1.23	1,000
Potatoes	$1.69	5,000 pounds
Pumpkin pie mix	$1.79	1,000
Rolls, dozen	$1.79	1,000 dozen
Schoep’s ice cream	$2.89	1,000
Squash	$2.67	3,000 pounds
Stuffing	$1.49	1,000
Sweet potatoes	$3.45	5,000 pounds
Turkey , frozen, 12#	$9.48	1,000
Vegetables, 2 cans	$1.38	2,000
Cost at Woodman’s: $40.44

Volunteer Slots Are All Filled
We need the help of over 150 volunteers to help us provide the fixings for families to cook a complete Thanksgiving meal this holiday.
All volunteer slots have been filled!
You can still help by organizing a food drive or being a corporate sponsor.

Organize a food drive
We need FOOD for Thanksgiving, but we also like to restock our pantry shelves so they're full for the next couple of months.
To host a food drive, contact Marlene Storms at 241-1574 ext. 25 or email her.
Read Food-Drive Letter (Word, 1.05MB)

Vogel employees helped with Thanksgiving 2007 baskets

Be a corporate sponsor
Corporate sponsors sometimes pop for some of the fresh food we provide--the turkey, eggs, fresh vegetables, rolls, or ice cream--and it makes such a difference.
To be a corporate sponsor, contact Marlene at 241-1574 ext. 25 or email her.

Registration: Registration period is over.

Distribution: Distribution at Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa Street
• Monday, Nov. 24
• Tuesday, Nov. 25

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