Mission statement
The South Portland Food Cupboard is dedicated to alleviating hunger by providing supplemental food to the needy of South Portland, Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth, and surrounding communities. We strive to offer nutritious foods, provide a full week’s worth of meals for each family once per month, serve with compassion and caring, treat each client with respect while bringing hope and encouragement to their lives, and educate our clients about other available community resources.
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South Portland Food Cupboard
We are a food pantry that shares a week's worth of healthy and nutritional food items with individuals and families with incomes below 150% of the poverty level.
We are open for clients on Thursday from 8:30 - 11:30 am (numbers given at 7:30). We are a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization and run by over 50 volunteers.
A big thank you to Nonesuch River Golf Club & it's patrons for the 468 lbs of food! What a clever campaign to offer discounts on greens fees to patrons who bring in non-perishable goods! We love the creativity, and we are grateful for your support again this year.
Many thanks to SoPo Cottage for the generous donation of non-perishables received today. Thank you, Laurel, for stopping by and for your continued generosity. We love to see you!
On Wednesday, May 31, we hosted the Rotary Club of South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Thirty-two members came for a viewing of our facility and the new slide presentation. Again, a donation of $500 was made to the Cupboard. The Rotary is a consistent donor to us. Our van was partially paid for by this club and more than ten of their members donate their time weekly. It was a fun night, members kept donating extra money ($160), and new members received a good picture of what we are about. Very much appreciated!
Every month of May, Sappi Fine Paper’s South Portland employees collect needed food items for us. This year we were also asked to give a presentation to them. We produced a wonderful slide presentation of all we have accomplished in twenty years and shared this with them. They very generously donated $500 from a recent bake sale, too. Very much appreciated!
Thank you to WGME for the visit and the story!
http://wgme.com/news/local/woman-who-dedicated-life-to-helping-the-hungry-retires
http://wgme.com/news/local/woman-who-dedicated-life-to-helping-the-hungry-retires
Woman who dedicated life to helping the hungry retires
SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) -- A woman who has dedicated her life to helping the hungry is retiring.Sybil Riemensnider has been the executive director of the South Portland Food Cupboard for 20 years.This is her last year.She says it's been a labor of love, one
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