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Join the Brown Bag Lunch Club!
Many of us spend between $10-15 on eating lunch out, each and every day. What would happen if just one day per month we decided instead to bring our lunch from home and donate that $10 towards feeding hungry children in our community? Friends, this is your invitation to the Brown Bag Lunch Club, a Food for Thought initiative that invites us to be more thoughtful in our lunchtime choices and to make the selfless decision to make a monthly donation of $10 to support the Food for Thought program.Join the club TODAY
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Volunteer Outreach Sessions
OKALOOSA
Food For Thought will host two volunteer outreach sessions on February 26th as we look for additional program volunteers to support our services in Okaloosa County.
You can join us at 8:30 or 4:30p on February 26th at our Destin pantry located at 908 Airport Rd in Destin.
During these one hour sessions, you will learn about how you can help as volunteer, ask questions about our organization and register to get started.
WALTON
Join us on February 28th at 8:30 for our final volunteer outreach of the school year.
Food For Thought Outreach is looking for additional volunteers to support our programs in Walton Co.
During this one hour session, you will learn how our volunteers support our programs, ask questions about our programs and register to get started.
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Volunteer Spotlight- Marci Sherwood
Marci SherwoodHow long have you been volunteering with FFT?I started volunteering with FFT in 2015. I brought a group of friends to pack backpacks, which then led to delivering backpacks at a school. From there, I have assisted in the kitchen cooking classes and most recently joined the Advisory Board.What drew you to FFT?My husband and I have three children and until I heard Tiffanie speak, I had never heard of food insecurity. Learning there were hungry children in my own kids’ classes in this beautiful beach community broke my heart. I love donating my time and resources to an organization that directly impacts children’s lives, giving them not only food but also the knowledge they are cared for by their community. I continue to support FFT because I see first-hand how the organization is supporting children and their families as the needs grow and change.Favorite part about being involved with FFT?One way FFT serves the kids in our community is the cooking classes in the Emeril Lagasse Foundation Full Circle Kitchen. I’ve been lucky to assist in multiple classes throughout the past two school years. Spending time with the kids, hearing their stories and watching them gain confidence in themselves is one of the most rewarding experiences in my life.
Do you have a special memory or something that has impacted you during services that you would like to share?At a recent volunteer meeting, Tiffanie asked the group what brought them to volunteer with FFT. A mother and daughter were the first to answer. They had come to sign up as new volunteers because there had been a time when the mother needed assistance and her daughter received the backpacks at school. The mother went on to say that she was so thankful for FFT and their assistance during those hard years. She wanted to pay it forward and help others the way she’d been helped. Seeing their story come full circle was such a touching moment. My sincere hope is that we have many more of those stories to share in the future.
We appreciate you, Marci! We are so grateful that you support Food For Thought! -
Full Circle Kitchen
How cool is this?! This is a meal cooked by students from AMIkids in our Full Circle Kitchen under the instruction of invaluable volunteer Memorie Spence using greens sourced from our very own Full Circle Garden. Our goals of sustainability are becoming more real every day and made possible by the community that continues to invest in its future. And THAT is some real Food For Thought! If you would like to volunteer in the kitchen email volunteer@fftfl.org
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8th Annual Golf Tournament!
Food For Thought will return to the beautiful Santa Rosa Golf and Beach Club on April 11th, 2019 for our 8th Annual Charity Golf Tournament followed by an awards ceremony and after party at the beautiful gulf front Vue restaurant. Festivities will begin at 11:30am for lunch and registration with a 12:45pm shotgun start. All proceeds from the event support our work fighting childhood hunger in Walton and Okaloosa Counties! Sign up today! Sponsorship opportunities available!
https://fftfl.org/collections/8th-annual-charity-golf-tournament
