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Organize a Drive
Neighborhood Food Project

Food Pantry Donations

Non-perishable food is always needed and welcomed in our Food Pantry. Feel free to come by with any non-perishable items during our open hours or by special arrangement.

Food Pantry Donation Hours:
Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9 am to 3 pm
Thursday from 9 am to 7:30 pm
3rd Saturday of the month 9 am to 12 pm

Most wanted food items:


Brown rice
Canned fruits (all kinds, low sugar please)
Canned vegetables (all kinds)
Dried beans (black beans, red beans, all Goya varieties etc.)
Kids snacks (granola bars, fruit leathers, dried fruits, snack mixes, small applesauces, no sugar please)
Meat and chicken soups (canned and boxed)
Pasta (all varieties, especially non-spaghetti. Gluten-free also appreciated!)

Items for our Thanksgiving Boost

Stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Canned pumpkin
Boxed mashed potatoes
Gravy
Green beans
Cream of mushroom soup
Other holiday themed foods

We appreciate your thoughtful donations.

Kitchen Donations

The Amherst Survival Center welcomes your donations of food for our kitchen.

If you are interested in donating non-perishable food to the kitchen, we accept the following unexpired, unopened items:
  • olive oil
  • bottled salad dressings
  • jam/jelly
  • salt/pepper

Personal Care Items

The Food Pantry also distributes personal care items. You can bring unopened/unused personal care items to the Center, and the Pantry will distribute them along with monthly groceries. Unused travel size items are also welcome.

Most wanted personal items:


Toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss
Menstrual Products (Tampons and Pads)
Disposable Diapers for Children – sizes 4, 5, and 6
Disposable Diapers/Incontinence briefs for Adults (pull-on brief style)
Soap
Shampoo


Want to organize a community food drive?

Please let us know if you’re organizing (or would like to organize) a Food Drive! Contact the Food Pantry Coordinator, pantry@amherstsurvival.org, x104. We can put it on our calendar (so we can plan for it) and offer additional support! See the the lists above for most wanted food items and personal care items.

MORE INFO ABOUT RUNNING A FOOD DRIVE

Neighborhood Food Project

The Neighborhood Food Project is an innovative food collection program. Neighborhood Coordinators recruit teams of their neighbors to make a regular donation to the Amherst Survival Center food pantry 6 times per year. Food donors assemble their donated goods and leave them on their stoop, and Neighborhood Coordinators pick them up and deliver them to the Amherst Survival Center where they go straight to our shelves and then to families in need.

LEARN MORE ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PROJECT
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We are open:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 12-3.
Food Pantry open third Saturday of the month 9-12.

Address:

P.O. Box 9629
138 Sunderland Rd.
North Amherst, MA 01059

Ph: 413-549-3968  amherstsurvival@amherstsurvival.org

We are on the PVTA bus route:

PVTA Bus 33 schedule

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