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Updated list of Covid-Safer Food Banks, Pantries

List of Covid-safer Outdoor food banks and places that deliver:

MASSACHUSSETTS

*People who work in Concord or Maynard that live outside our service area may also shop with proof of employment in either of these towns.

 

You register (you do need to provide name and address, but not photo ID) online and you order online (you get to choose some of the foods, but they don’t guarantee anything). You select a pick-up time on Tuesdays or Thursdays (see their website).

ALL pickups are done in a parking lot. Groceries are loaded into your trunk.

Their volunteers do NOT mask, but it's 100% outdoors.

Residents in their service area can get food once per week.

  • Sudbury Food Pantry - open to all Massachusetts residents

    Like Open Table, the Sudbury Food Pantry is 100% outdoors. You reserve a pick-up time at their website. You arrive and a volunteer with a clipboard takes your information. You fill out a request sheet (as with Open Table, they can’t guarantee requests). When it’s your turn, you drive up to a window behind the church and they hand you your bags of food to put in your own car. These are the only contacts.

    Their volunteers do NOT mask.

    http://sudburyfoodpantry.org/pick-up-food/

    Residents of MA can get food at this pantry 2 times per month

  • Medway Food Pantry - open to all Massachusetts residents

    This is a small one, but reliable and 100% outdoors. They are open Tues & Thurs 9-11 at 600 Mahan Circle, Medway, MA and welcome any MA resident 3x/month

    https://www.facebook.com/.../Medway-Food.../100067505804658/

    unknown if volunteers mask

  • Center for Self-Reliance: DELIVERY from a food pantry

    Delivery service is currently available to Buckland, Greenfield, Montague and Shelburne residents.

    You can order twice per month.

    https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6150320/CSR-Ordering

    Note: they require a fair amount of information in their application. Some food pantries receive funding based on demographic data like this.

    Unknown if volunteers mask.

  • Brookline Food Rescue in Canton MA - no documentation needed, open to anyone

    Fridays at noon - 427 Turnpike St., Canton MA - cars line up, pop your trunk, 1 box per car - VERY fast drive-thru

    Unknown if their volunteers mask.

  • Salem, MA Mobile Pop-up Pantry - Salem residents and Salem State University faculty, staff, and students

    Wednesdays from 10-noon. More details here: https://www.salemstate.edu/.../student.../salem-pantry-pop

    Unknown if their volunteers mask.

 

RHODE ISLAND

 

  • St. Vincent de Paul Society:  https://svdpri.org/basic-needs/  (401) 490-0822

    • Coventry and West Warwick: Our Lady of Czestochowa Gymnasium, 445 Washington Street Coventry RI . "Optional Delivery for those who do not drive in Coventry and West Warwick. "

    • Newport County: St. Joseph - Newport Conference, delivery only. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 12 pm . (401)258-5773 Vicki Walsh to arrange

    • Peace Dale: St. Francis of Assisi Conference.  Peacedale Congregation, 261 Columbia St, Peace Dale, RI 02879. "elderly and disabled, No hours just on “personal response to a request for food.”  "

  • Cumberland/Northern RI

    • Northern RI Food Pantry in Cumberland, 401-347-5714

    • Serves Pawtucket, Woonsocket, Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, N. Smithfield

    • https://www.nrifoodpantry.org/get-help

    • "7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on the first Saturday and third Saturday of each month. We ask families to register with us the first time they visit and to update family information when it changes. When you register, we will give you a food pantry ID card to use each time you visit. We provide food in quantities determined by our available supply."

    • DRIVE THRU

  • Central Falls

  • East Providence

  • Providence (Halal and Kosher)

    • JCS-Louis and Goldie Chester Full Plate Kosher Pantry (401)331-1244


      Kristany Jaycox. Open 1st & 3rd Wed, Thu, Fri of each month by appt. only. Call to schedule pick-up of Kosher or Halal food and for emergency food delivery criteria and screening. Guests can visit 2x/month.

  • Warren

    • St. Mary of the Bay Food Pantry  645 Main Street. Tue 3 PM - 6 PM & Wed. 9 AM - 11 AM. Serves East Bay. Guests can come weekly. Call ahead to make drive-thru arrangements. (401)245-7000


      Wendy Baker

 

CONNECTICUT

  • Connecticut Foodshare State-wide Mobile Pantry Locator

    • Connecticut Foodshare’s texting tool is now available state-wide. Simply text FOODSHARE (for English) or COMIDA (for Spanish) to 85511 to opt-in. Users will be prompted to answer a few simple questions and then will be given information on location, date, time, and frequency of Connecticut Foodshare Mobile Pantry distributions nearby.

  • Woodbury

    • Home Delivered Meals through the town, Age 60+; Resident of Woodbury; Homebound. 203-263-4117

  • Bristol

     

  • Southington

     

  • Bloomfield

    • thru the town, Delivers one hot meal and one cold meal (including kosher meals) to homebound seniors and disabled residents

    • 330 Park AvenueBloomfield, CT06002

      860-243-8361

  • Branford

    • delivery. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Delivered between 11:00 am – 1:00 pm


      Available to any Branford or North Branford resident who is unable to drive, does not have a reliable source of transportation, and needs a meal.


      To register, please contact us at (203) 488-9750, Ext. 1

  • Manchester

    • October Kitchen https://www.octoberkitchen.com/. (NOT FREE)

    • purchase/pay, pick up or delivery

    • Resident of Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bolton, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Colchester, Coventry, Cromwell, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, Middletown, Newington, Plainville, Portland, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southington, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks

  • Norwich

 
 
 

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