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Wow! Folsom Sponsors 350 Under-resourced Students

The Need

Last week, we were preparing for the Back to School Extravaganza but still waiting on sponsorships for 280 students. We asked the community to consider sponsoring a student for $25.

As the week went on, we began to receive sponsorships, but we also continued to have children register to receive school supplies. Currently, 350 under-resourced students will attend the event on August 2 to enjoy time with their family, haircuts, chicken sandwiches, community resources, and more.

Your Response

In just one week, Folsom showed up for our students, and every single one has been sponsored by you all. Thank you!

These sponsorships provide students with grade-appropriate school supplies. Students will receive crayons, markers, pencils, erasers, glue sticks, highlighters, notebooks, pens, index cards, and more. Additionally, the community is providing professional haircuts and hygiene kits. Your generosity is giving under-resourced students in Folsom an extraordinary start to the school year!

If you are still considering giving, click the link below to help us continue to support Folsom’s youth throughout the school year.

Support Folsom’s Youth Here

280 Under-Resourced Children Still Need School Supplies

Back to School Extravaganza

One of our favorite days of the year is quickly approaching on August 2! Each year at the Back to School Extravaganza, Folsom’s neighbors come together to love on local families as they get ready for the first day of school. Last year, 325 under-resourced children received brand new backpacks, gift cards for new shoes, professional haircuts, hygiene products, community resources, and more.

This year, we are working with Chick-fil-A, Folsom Fire, Folsom Police, Folsom’s Hope, and other community partners to give families a fun and memorable experience as they get ready for a new school year. In addition to school supplies, families can enjoy chicken sandwiches, bounce houses, ice cream, meeting firefighters and police officers, and even more.

We Need Your Help

As all of these community partners come together to make the day extra special, we still need your help to provide each student with the required school supplies for their grade level. By sponsoring a student for $25, you can personally touch the life of an under-resourced student in our community. Your donation will provide one child with all the school supplies they need and help them start the new school year feeling confident and prepared.

Right now, $7,000 away from our goal, 280 students still need school supplies, and the Back to School Extravaganza will be here before we know it. Click the button below to sponsor one or more of Folsom’s students and give every child a fabulous first day of school.

Sponsor a Student Here

Impact Report 2022-2023 Now Available

We served record numbers at the food bank and expanded our outreach in the greater Folsom area.

Big Day of Giving Coming Soon

Big Day of Giving is our largest spring fundraiser of the year and we are setting the stage to raise $75,000 by Thursday, May 2. Join hundreds of other donors throughout the Sacramento region to help raise funds to continue the programs and services to feed our hungry neighbors. [Learn more]

Full Impact Report 2022-2023

Upcoming Easter Event

Easter is a time of the resurrection story, the message of hope, moments with family and yes, even chocolate bunnies. This year, the food bank is doing Easter a little different. We will be gifting our families, with children ages 4-12, a children’s bible and Easter chocolate, donated by one of our small business partners Snook’s Candies. If you are interested in helping with this project, a donation of $15 will pay for one children’s bible.

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Record Lines of Hungry Neighbors

Lisa Tuter, Executive Director

The story on the street is that consumer confidence is climbing, inflation is slowing and the economy keeps growing. The story at Twin Lakes Food Bank is quite different; the long lines of food insecure families coming to us for supplemental groceries every week remains high. They are nervous, not confident. The slowed inflation has not affected the high prices they are paying at the grocery store. The growing economy has not grown much of our guests’ paychecks to be able to pay for essential good and services.

Last week, I stopped to talk to Mary, who was waiting in a long line to be served groceries and thanked her for her patience as she had been waiting almost an hour to get checked in. Mary said that she grateful for the food bank because her finances had taken a hard turn over the last few months and then shared her story. “I am retired and widowed on a fixed income. I own my mobile home but the rent for the space is $800 and takes nearly 50% of my social security income.” Additionally, Mary’s credit card debt mounted due to increased interest rates and prompted her to pay off that debt, essentially draining her savings account. “I am literally living paycheck to paycheck with little money left to purchase groceries. Twin Lakes Food Bank is a godsend.”

Mary and other senior citizens like her are one of the reasons that Twin Lakes Food Bank has gone from serving an average of 1800 individuals to over 3000 individuals every month, since November 2023.

We are grateful to our financial donors who ensure that hungry neighbors like Mary get access to nutritious food through Twin Lakes Food Bank programs and services. If you haven’t yet contributed to the food bank, I invite you to consider donating now and join hundreds of others in our community who are making a difference in the lives of food insecure families

We’ve Got A New Look

We are excited to share our newly redesigned website with all our friends of Twin Lakes Food Bank! A huge THANK YOU to Janet Osterdock and her team at Zoom Media who worked hard to make this facelift happen.

Moving forward, we will communicate the happenings at the food bank with more frequent and shorter articles rather than the lengthier quarterly newsletters. Past newsletters will still be available on the website however.

So, take a look. Poke around. See what is happening at the food bank, learn about the lives that are being impacted and discover ways that you can support our mission to share the love of God in our community by providing food and support to our food insecure neighbors.