Program update
What 214 heating tanks actually looked like
The heat fund closed its season last week. Here is the arithmetic, the two nights we could not cover, and what we are changing before November.
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Field notes
Written by the people doing the work, published whether the month went well or badly. No donor-newsletter gloss.
Field note
The question we ask every single time
Is anything else broken this week? Seventeen years of asking it, and it still surfaces things no intake form ever would.
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Policy
Why we do not means-test the pantry
Every year someone on a board somewhere suggests it. Here is the arithmetic on why screening costs more than it saves.
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Volunteers
A Thursday on the produce table
She came in for a box of groceries in March. She now runs the produce table and knows the regulars better than we do.
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Program update
The second van, explained
Two island routes we keep turning down, 340 miles a week, and one refrigeration unit older than the org.
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Kitchen
Ninety kids, one hot plate
The after-school kitchen started as a toaster oven in a supply closet. It fed 17,000 meals last year.
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