Basic Needs Ministry - Cleveland Township Emergency Food Pantry Needs

Basic Needs Ministry operates Cleveland Township Emergency Food Pantry and would love assistance to feed this community.  Currently, we shop for 2-3,000 pounds on Mondays and 500-1,000 additional pounds on Fridays.  We have freezer space for 65 cu. ft. of frozen meat, which is extremely popular.  We are adding new families weekly.   

Partial and Minimum Monthly Needs

New Volunteers - 6 member shopping team every Monday morning, 4 member team to provide food on Saturday afternoons

Cereal - 240 family boxes.

Baby food/formula/diapers - Only when we have babies with these needs - check first

Bread - None needed as long as our supplier continues the service - we use about 1,600 loaves per month.

Soup - 700 cans.

Canned fruit - 1,680 cans.

Canned vegetables - 6,500

46 ounce juice cans - 700

Peanut butter, jellies and jams - 600 pounds

Rice - 100 pounds

Tuna and other canned fish/meats - 1,000 cans

Pasta and tomato paste/sauce - 250 pounds each

Meat:  pork, beef, veal, seafood, chicken, turkey - 3,200 pounds - cannot be delivered without ensuring we have freezer space on a given day and that someone will be able to receive it

Toilet paper - 3,800 rolls or 950 4-packs

Bar soap - 170 large bars

Facial tissue - 1,000 100 count-tissue boxes

Tide or other quality laundry detergent - 1,000 washloads

Butter - 100 pounds - cannot be delivered without ensuring we have freezer space on a given day and that someone will be able to receive it

Powdered milk - 8,000 servings

Good stewardship dictates cash for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina for what they might have in inventory, including meat and other frozen items.  Our volunteers go there for a full shopping experience on Mondays and a short limited visit on Fridays.  Food, including meat,  usually costs $.18 per pound. 

$100 - can buy an average of $2,500 worth of food at store prices, including meats.
$250 - $6,250
$500 - $10,000
$1,000 - $25,000

$75,000 is our estimated minimum cost for 2009 food, license, warehouse rent, insurance, electricity, security, telephone, trash and other basic needs to operate as a charity.