The Gemma E. Moran United Way/Labor Food Center (Food Center) will host five drive-thru Mobile Pantries in the month of June.
As part of the Eastern CT Health Collaborative’s new Mobile Health Hub, other social service agencies will be on-site at all of the following Mobile Pantry deployments to provide additional information, support, and resources. You do not have to be in need of food in order to visit the other agencies and vice versa:
United Way of Southeastern Connecticut has elected three new members to its Board of Directors.
Ken Ewell first joined the Board in 2013, following his retirement from Zachry Nuclear Engineering, and served for two consecutive terms. Soon after joining the Board, he was asked to join on the Finance Committee and he continues to serve on the Finance Committee, as a non-Board member. In 2014, Ken was elected Treasurer and served as the Treasurer until January 2020. He has resumed the role of Treasurer after his recent re-election to the Board.
Fill a bag, help a family. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its annual national food drive, called Stamp Out Hunger, to combat hunger and food insecurity on Saturday, May 14. On that day, letter carriers will collect non-perishable donations from customers as they deliver mail along their postal routes.
Flanders Fish Market in East Lyme is hosting a “dine and donate” event to benefit the Gemma E. Moran United Way/Labor Food Center.
Sites will also be part of the Eastern CT Health Collaborative's new Mobile Health Hub to offer additional services
The Gemma E. Moran United Way/Labor Food Center (Food Center) will host five drive-thru Mobile Pantries in the month of May.
As part of the Eastern CT Health Collaborative’s new Mobile Health Hub, other social service agencies will be on-site at all of the following Mobile Pantry deployments to provide additional information, support, and resources. You do not have to be in need of food in order to visit the other agencies and vice versa:
United Ways in Connecticut are digging deep into the latest United Way ALICE Report release, titled ALICE in Focus: Children to better understand what the people in our community face on a daily basis.
ALICE is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. ALICE households work hard, often multiple jobs, but they don’t earn enough to afford the basics needed to live and work in the modern economy.
The Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) supplements the work of local social service agencies, both nonprofit and governmental, to help people with economic emergencies (non-disaster-related). EFSP funds are used to supplement feeding, sheltering, rent/mortgage or utility assistance efforts for programs already in existence. Funding is made available by the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and administered locally by United Way of Southeastern Connecticut.
THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to the Healthy Start Food Drive on April 9th!
If you missed it, you can still donate breakfast items using our Virtual Food Drive.
The Gemma E. Moran United Way/Labor Food Center (Food Center) will host five drive-thru Mobile Pantries in the month of April as follows:
At its March meeting, two local leaders, Jim Newman and Brian Orenstein, were elected to the Board of Directors.
