Each year Food For Thought provides 420,000 applesauce and fruit cups through our back-pack program!

This equates to $84,000 a year that is spent alone on this pantry staple. For this next school year, we are stocking the pantry once again, but instead of a food drive are hosting a virtual team fundraiser.

If you have a group, business or organization that would like to participate in our Stock the Pantry fundraiser (7/14 - 8/22) please contact us today! support@fftfl.org

You can also find more information about this fundraiser here: https://fftfl.org/pages/7th-annual-stock-the-pantry-virtual-edition

Thank you, Chiringo for sponsoring our Curbside Pickups for the Santa Rosa Beach Pantry! We appreciate your support to help us continue to provide food to families in our community throughout the summer!

Thank you, Emerald Coast Association of REALTORS® for your generous donation as a sponsor for the Destin Curbside Pickups! We appreciate your support and helping us be able to continue to serve our community throughout the summer!

Help Stock the Food For Thought Pantry for the 2020/21 School Year! 

In light of the current state of our daily lives, we are revamping our annual Stock the Pantry Food Drive to be a virtual team-based fundraiser this year.

Instead of collecting food items, we will have this virtual fundraiser, where each team will contribute to raise money towards our goal of $150K (equivalent of 300K food items; 2019 Stock the Pantry raised 336K food items!).

This fundraiser that will run virtually from July 14 - August 22nd, will enable Food For Thought to be able to continue to provide food to families and students, as the need is ongoing and growing. 

Details: 

• 10 team spots available (5 have been filled)
• Virtual results party will be held on August 28th (details TBD). 
• Each team will have their own unique fundraising page for this event.
• Please reach out to: support@fftfl.org to sign up or for questions

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Food for Thought is estimating that there will be at least, 3,300 students in the "backpack" program again this year, and will be working to provide food to these children weekly so that they will have food for the weekend and not go hungry.  

When the schools closed in March due to Covid-19, Food For Thought has continued to provide food to 600+ families at 5 different locations within Okaloosa and Walton counties with curbside pickups. Each week FFT has provided at least 30 -50 food items, including Fresh Produce in order to help fight the hunger gap, which has been growing due to the growth in unemployment

The team at the Destin Charity Wine Auction has been working hard to revamp this event in order to accommodate the current social distancing guidelines to still be able to hold this annual fundraising event.  

This event, originally scheduled for the end of April, will now take place August 21 and 22.  The patron dinners will still take place at various locations throughout the Emerald Coast, but the auction will now be held at 5 different locations (still live) in order to not have one large gathering. 

Please visit the DCWAF website in order to learn more about how the event will take place this year, and to purchase tickets: 

https://www.dcwaf.org/events/2020/8/rescheduled-15th-annual-destin-charity-wine-auction