re: $500K!!!Fundraiser for Athens County Food Pantry...Jeaux’s hometown

I feel like this is growing as big as “Band Aid” 1984... when they came out either song “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time. “ I think it was to aid hunger too.

Making Yahoo News!

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I don't know too much about food pantries, but does all this money go towards food or does it go towards giving shelter/providing clothes, blankets, jackets etc?
It's a lot of money coming in and it might go higher since it's becoming national news. So I was wondering if it goes towards other things also

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I don't know too much about food pantries, but does all this money go towards food or does it go towards giving shelter/providing clothes, blankets, jackets etc?

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Food. They purchase food at a discount from their regional food bank and pack boxes for elderly, disabled and identified poor people who are determined to have food insecurity. According to its information, it is a completely volunteer operation, no one is paid, and they send out boxes of food to a little more than 3,000 families in that county. They estimate that the cost for each meal is around $0.50. Of course the true numbers are times three meals a day times each person. Yesterday and today could sustain this operation for two or three years.

It wouldn't be outside of the 501(c)(3) mission of this food pantry if they decided to make donations to other non-profit entities which provide similar assistance.

And by the way, the pace of donations continues to accelerate. The pace of donations since 6:00 a.m. today is $263.15 a minute.

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I don't know too much about food pantries, but does all this money go towards food or does it go towards giving shelter/providing clothes, blankets, jackets etc?
It's a lot of money coming in and it might go higher since it's becoming national news. So I was wondering if it goes towards other things also

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If it's anything like Goodwill, it all goes to the CEOs (Not Coach Ed Orgeron). It's NOT like GW by the way.

But I just perused their facebook page, it kind of seems like just food. Maybe there are other organizations around Athens (and Baton Rouge) that you can donate to that provide clothing.

absolutely incredible, over $203K raised!!!!

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If it's anything like Goodwill, it all goes to the CEOs (Not Coach Ed Orgeron). It's NOT like GW by the way.

But I just perused their facebook page, it kind of seems like just food. Maybe there are other organizations around Athens (and Baton Rouge) that you can donate to that provide clothing.

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According to their IRS Form 990 linked below, they brought in roughly $100k in donations last year and had $70k in expenses.

Of the $70k in expenses. $60k went to food purchases and the remaining $10k to rent/insurance.

No salaries or unnecessary overhead.



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they brought in roughly $100k in donations last year

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Going to be a hell of a lot more this year.

Good work everyone.

They are a 100% volunteer organization. From what I understand, no one draws a salary from their budget.

However, $200K more than covers their food needs for the next few years. I really wish we could find a way to make some of the money available for school supplies and clothes.

My sister in law teaches in lower Appalachia and the kids frequently come in with huge holes in their shoes and without coats .Its cold up there and many kids walk a ways to school or the bus stops. Clothing and school supplies are a major need right after food.

Awesome ! Let’s shoot for 500k